| 摘要 |
<p>A vending machine (100) for serving a plurality of customers, each having a payment card, which includes a vending unit (102) for storing and displaying an accessible inventory (112A-112N) and for selectively enabling and barring free access of a customer to aplurality of items therefrom (106), a card payment unit (103) which upon receipt of a payment card from a customer, validates, prior to said enabling, that the payment card can be charged for the value of the accessible inventory, and which charges, after the barring, the payment card with a sum in accordance with items removed from the accessible inventory by the customer and a control unit (105) for coordinating the operation of said vending unit (100) and said card payment unit (103).</p> |
