摘要 |
PURPOSE: A polling control typed apparatus for treating a fee of a vending machine is provided to control several terminals by using a main computer, and to be widely used to receive the fee in various kinds of unmanned vending machines. CONSTITUTION: A station control part(11) under the control of a main computer(10) is connected to a money process device(12) including a paper money receiver, a coin receiver, a paper money supplier, and a coin calculator by a series communication cable. The station control part sends a control order to the money process device, and the money process device again sends a result depending on the control order, thereby the station control part is capable of understanding the condition of the money process device. The station control part comprises an order table for the money process device, an order letter for recording an order code, a data recording letter, a data length information recording letter, a bit rate condition recording letter, and an order code recording letter. |