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Patent No.:

US 10689200 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2018

Sorting system that transfers payloads from a conveyor system onto mobile drive units without the conveyor system knowing destinations of the mobile drive units

Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Racha Lwali, Tacoma, WA (US);

Andrew Gawne, Renton, WA (US);

Bruce Leardi, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:

BakerHostetler

Primary Examiner:

Mark A Deuble

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 17/34 (2006.01); B65G 47/48 (2006.01); B65G 47/50 (2006.01); B65G 47/49 (2006.01); G05B 13/00 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); B65G 43/08 (2006.01); B66F 9/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 17/345 (2013.01); B65G 47/485 (2013.01); B65G 47/493 (2013.01); B65G 47/503 (2013.01); B65G 43/08 (2013.01); B65G 2201/02 (2013.01); B66F 9/063 (2013.01); G05B 13/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/0234 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0216 (2013.01); H01L 21/67271 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a sortation system at a facility has a conveyor system and a mobile drive unit system. The conveyor system has a conveyor surface that transfers payloads to the mobile drive units, and a controller that communicates a payload identifier for each payload to the mobile drive unit system. The payload identifiers are masked such that information about the local destinations are unknown to the conveyor system. The mobile drive unit system determines the local destinations from the payload identifiers by unmasking the payload identifiers, and delivers the payloads to determined local destinations at the facility.

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Lwali, Racha. (2020). Sorting system that transfers payloads from a conveyor system onto mobile drive units without the conveyor system knowing destinations of the mobile drive units (U.S. Patent No. 10689200). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10689200

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