Back to results
US 2024/0212415 A1Published application
Vehicle Vending Machine With Fire Protection System
AssigneeCarvana, LLC
InventorsErnest C. GARCIA, III, Bret SASSENBERG, Benjamin E. HUSTON
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Systems, methods, non-transitory processor-readable storage media, and devices of the various embodiments enable a vehicle vending machine to retrieve a customer vehicle from a storage location in a tower and deliver the customer vehicle to a delivery bay. In various embodiments, the vehicle vending machine may further include a fire protection system.
Claims24
A vehicle vending machine, comprising:
- at least one 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;
- and
- a system configured to retrieve a customer vehicle from a storage location in the tower and deliver the customer vehicle to the first delivery bay.
1 more element
A method for operating a vehicle vending machine with a fire protection system, comprising:
- detecting a vehicle fire in a storage tower of the vehicle vending machine;
- in response to detecting the vehicle fire in the storage tower:
- activating an alarm system;
- and
- activating an exhaust system.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.