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

Claim 1:
2. 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:
according to the items to be purchased, judging, by the control apparatus whether each group of items in each of the item combination manners is able to be transported by the hopper in a case of N item dispensing operations, sequentially as N ascends, until it is determined that each group of items in at least one item combination manner is able to be transported by the hopper; and
determining, by the control apparatus, all of item combination manners in which each group of items is able to be transported by the hopper as the candidate item combination manners in a case of N item dispensing operations; wherein N is a positive integer.