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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2017
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Dinesh Mahadevan, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Martin Peter Aalund, Seattle, WA (US);
Jon Stuart Battles, North Bend, WA (US);
Jon David DeFant, Seattle, WA (US);
Benjamin Douglas Garcia, Seattle, WA (US);
Vahideh Kamranzadeh, Seattle, WA (US);
George T. Davies, Brigham City, UT (US);
Steven Eric Nuetzman, Syracuse, UT (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an inventory storage module has first and second guiderails that are spaced from one another along a lateral direction. Each guiderail has an upper track and a lower track, and first and second connecting tracks that connect the upper track to the lower track at first and second ends of the storage module, respectively. The module has a plurality of inventory carriers that are supported between the first and second guiderails, are arranged end-to-end along the upper and lower tracks along a longitudinal direction, and are elongate along the lateral direction. The module can also have a plurality of storage containers carried by each inventory carrier in a side-by-side relation along the lateral direction, where the plurality of storage containers carry a plurality of inventory items.