Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Arianne Etta Spaulding

Seth Kaufman

Tim Martin

Victoria Joy Asman

Mary J Hester

An inventory holder assembly can include a fabric sleeve and a drawer bin assembly. The fabric sleeve can be installed on a frame. The fabric sleeve can include multiple compartments, where each compartment includes a set of mounts couplable with interchangeable bin structures. The drawer bin assembly can coupled to a subset of mounts of a compartment of the fabric sleeve. The drawer bin assembly can include a drawer bin biased, via a biaser, to extend more than halfway (or fully) out from the compartment of the fabric sleeve to achieve an open state. Also, the drawer bin can be pushed against the biaser to stow away and lock in place within the compartment.

Lockable fabric-drawers for inventory holder

A sensor-based item transport system, and a method therefore are described. The system includes, for example, a cart station, within a restricted area including a plurality of automated drive. A light curtain is adjacent to the cart station. A first sensor and a second sensor are spaced apart from the first sensor within the cart station. A first mode associated with the light curtain is maintained causing an alarm system associated with the light curtain to remain armed. The first mode is caused to change to a second mode associated with the light curtain, the second mode causing the alarm system to be muted, based at least in part on the identity of the cart. The identity is determined based at least in part on one or more signals received from the first sensor and the second sensor.

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Arianne Etta Spaulding