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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2018
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Benjamin Douglas Garcia, Seattle, WA (US);
William Scott Kalm, Seattle, WA (US);
Vahideh Kamranzadeh, Seattle, WA (US);
Dinesh Mahadevan, Seattle, WA (US);
Seshachalamgupta Motamarri, Seattle, WA (US);
Tyson Wittrock, Seattle, WA (US);
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an inventory storage module has a first conveyor segment, a second conveyor segments offset from the first segment along a vertical direction, a first vertical lift at a first end of the module, and a second vertical lift at a second end of the module, which together define a movement path that is elongate along a longitudinal direction between the first and second ends. The storage module can translate inventory storage containers around the movement path until a desired one of the inventory storage containers is presented at one of the first end and the second end. In another embodiment, a plurality of instances of the storage module are arranged in a vertical stack of independently controllable storage modules.