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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Maxim Hoffman, Bothell, WA (US);
Roland Menassa, Renton, WA (US);
Lane Sturman, Holland, MI (US);
Lance Hartman, Holland, MI (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 15/0028 (2013.01);
Abstract
An end-of-arm tool lifts a stack of totes and ejects a lowermost tote one at a time. The tool includes fixed unloading arms on which an outgoing tote slides in response to a pusher. A pair of staging arms lift the totes above the outgoing tote to free the outgoing tote and enable the outgoing tote to slide on the unloading arms.