Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Venkata Srikiran Bodapati

Nathan Pius O'Neill

Jeremy Samuel De Bonet

Sydney Tye Minnis

Jacob Alex Siegel

Nicholas McMahon

Vahideh Kamranzadeh

Nirmal Doshi

Nicholas Franklin

Nicholas Mendenhall

Zihui Zhang

Ryan Long

Rafiuddin Arif Ahud

Gregory Kim Justice

Forrest Alexander Bourke

Justin William Andersen

Michael Morgan

James Olney

Rachel M Burroughs

An apparatus includes a crossbar to which a plurality of accessories using different mechanical interfaces may be attached and detached. The crossbar is instrumented and provides information, such as a weight change due to addition to, or removal of, items from an accessory on the crossbar. An extensible bracket attaches the crossbar to a supporting structure, decreasing mechanical strain on the crossbar due to minor misalignment of the supporting structure. Accessories such as wire hooks, shelves, bins, and so forth may be supported by the crossbar. A tether device, locking cam device, or clip device may be used to prevent lateral movement of components such as the accessories or the entire crossbar relative to its supporting structure. A baffle may be affixed to the crossbar to constrain airflow for operation in a temperature-controlled case.

Apparatus for stowing items

A fixture includes a plurality of brackets. Accessories such as wire hooks, shelves, bins, and so forth may be supported by one or more brackets. A load cell supports each bracket and generates a signal that is indicative of changes to the bracket as items are added or removed from the accessory. The brackets include features such as tabs that prevent accessories from moving laterally. The fixtures are easily reconfigured to accommodate accessories of different sizes that in turn may support items of different sizes.

Multi-lane weight measuring device

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Snoqualmie, WA, United States of America

Venkata Srikiran Bodapati