Vehicle Vending Machine
AssigneeCarvana, LLC
InventorsErnest C. GARCIA, III, Bret SASSENBERG, Benjamin E. HUSTON
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Abstract
Systems, methods, non-transitory processor-readable storage media, and devices of the various embodiments enable a vehicle vending machine to retrieve a vehicle from a storage location and deliver the vehicle to a delivery bay for delivery to a customer. Various embodiments may include a vehicle vending machine including a tower, a robotic carrier, a corridor extending from the tower, a plurality of delivery bays positioned along the corridor, a customer interaction kiosk, and/or a video system.
Claims18
A vehicle vending machine, comprising:
- a first delivery bay;
- a tower comprising a series of storage locations on different vertically arranged levels, wherein at least a portion of the series of storage locations are on at least one of the different vertically arranged levels of the tower that is vertically offset from the first delivery bay.
A method for operating a vehicle vending machine, comprising:
- retrieving a vehicle positioned on a vehicle pallet from a storage location within a tower of the vehicle vending machine;
- and
- navigating a robotic carrier to an appropriate one of a plurality of delivery bays of the vehicle vending machine while the robotic carrier carries the vehicle positioned on the vehicle pallet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.