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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2023
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Vinodhkumar Somavar Muniappan, Redmond, WA (US);
Sudhakar Teegavarapu, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Ganesh Krishnamoorthy, Seattle, WA (US);
Zechariah Ives, Auburn, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for a shuttle sortation system having linear actuators for unloading items from shuttles and deposing the items into totes. For example, an item shuttle may transport items in an item holder which may contain an item and that is removable from a base of the item shuttle. The item holder may be constrained from moving with respect to the base and a depositing area may unlock the item holder from the base, permitting the item holder to separate from the base. An upper linear actuator may engage the item holder and may move the item over a tote receiving the area having a tote. The item holder may not have a bottom portion, such that once the item holder is separated from the based, the item is free to fall through to the tote below.