AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic vending machine capable of performing a personal identification and also providing various kinds of services. SOLUTION: This automatic vending machine is provided with: a communication means 4 for transmitting/receiving information with a non-contact medium 3; a storage means 6 for storing a predetermined sum to be serviced according to a predetermined payment sum; and an arithmetic control part connected to a communication means 4 and a storage means 6. When a customer 2 performs a payment registration operation by using a non-contact medium 3, the predetermined payment sum is transmitted to the non-contact medium 3 by servicing the predetermined sum stored by a storage means 6 so that the increase of sales amounts in an automatic vending machine can be expected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT