Patent ID: 11915562
Assignee: SHANDONG NEW BEIYANG INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 2:
3. The item dispensing method of the automatic vending machine of claim 1, wherein determining, by the control apparatus, all of the item combination manners having the lowest number of item dispensing operations as the candidate item combination manners according to the first space geometrical information of the hopper and the second space geometrical information of each type of items to be purchased which are stored in the storage apparatus comprises:
determining, by the control apparatus, all of item combination manners according to the items to be purchased, and judging whether each group of items in each of the item combination manners is able to be transported by the hopper according to the first space geometrical information of the hopper and the second space geometrical information of each type of items to be purchased which are stored in the storage apparatus; and determining, by the control apparatus, all of the item combination manners having the lowest number of item dispensing operations, among item combination manners in which the each group of items is able to be transported by the hopper as the candidate item combination manners.