IC CARD PROCESSOR, AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE, AND VENDING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an automatic vending machine, etc., which vends commodities in an unmanned state to make discount sales for every purchaser IN accordance with the purchased amounts of the purchasers at vending time. SOLUTION: A microcomputer 2 collects the electronic money corresponding to the charge of the commodity purchased by each purchaser from the IC card 8 for commodity purchaser inserted into an ID card reader 1 by the purchaser to an IC card 7 for commodity seller. At the time of collecting the money, the micrcomputer 2 stores the number of purchasing times of the purchaser by correlating the number with the personal ID stored on the card 8 and, when the number of purchasing times exceeds a reference purchasing time stored in a storing section 3, registers the personal ID on a personal ID list stored in the storing section 3. At the time of collecting electronic money from the ID card 8 for commodity seller having a personal ID registered in the personal ID list, the microcomputer 2 applies a reduced rate as the charge of a purchased. commodity.