AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH RECORDED PROGRAM FOR CONTROL OF THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for automatic vending machine, that can easily and exactly perform price setting. SOLUTION: A price to be set is inputted and temporarily displayed on an operating box OB, and price setting can be directly and intuitively performed by changing the state of a detecting switch SW by putting an article into an empty column or moving an article left in a column. Therefore, price setting can be easily and exactly performed in a short time while avoiding the consideration of a corresponding relation between a push-button number of a column number or error in picking up a setting object.