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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 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 plurality of conveyor segments that define a movement path that is elongate along a longitudinal direction from a first end of the storage to a second end of the module. The module has a plurality of container carriers that are supported by the conveyor segments. Each container carrier supports at least one inventory storage container that supports at least one inventory item therein. The storage module can transfer the container carriers around the movement path until a desired one of the container carriers is presented at one of the first and second module ends. In another embodiment, a plurality of instances of the storage module are arranged in a vertical stack of independently controllable storage modules.