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US 10,670,323 B2Granted
Portable cooler with active temperature control
AssigneeEmber Technologies, Inc.
InventorsClayton Alexander, Daren John Leith, Mikko Juhani Timperi, Christopher Thomas Wakeham, Jacob William Emmert, Joseph Lyle Koch, Frank Victor Baumann, Clifton Texas Lin, Farzam Roknaldin, Mark Channing Stabb
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Abstract
A portable cooler container with active temperature control system is provided. The active temperature control system is operated to heat or cool a chamber of a vessel to approach a temperature set point suitable for a medication stored in the cooler container.
Claims20
A portable cooler container with active temperature control, comprising:
- a container body having a chamber configured to receive and hold one or more volumes of perishable liquid, the chamber defined by a base and an inner peripheral wall of the container body, the container body comprises an outer peripheral wall and a bottom portion attached to the outer peripheral wall, the inner peripheral wall being spaced relative to the outer peripheral wall to define an empty gap under vacuum between the inner peripheral walll and the outer peripheral wall, the base spaced apart from the bottom portion to define a cavity between the base and the bottom portion;
- a lid hingedly coupleable or removably coupleable to the container body;
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- a temperature control system housed in the cavity of the container body, comprising
- one or more thermoelectric elements configured to actively heat or cool at least a portion of the chamber,
- one or more power storage elements,
- circuitry configured to control an operation of the one or more thermoelectric elements to heat or cool at least a portion of the chamber to a predetermined temperature or temperature range, the circuitry further configured to wirelessly communicate with a cloud-based data storage system or a remote electronic device;
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- an electronic display screen disposed on one or both of the container body and the lid, the display screen configured to selectively display shipping information for the portable cooler container.
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A portable cooler container with active temperature control, comprising:
- a container body having a chamber defined by a base and an inner peripheral wall of the container body, the container body comprises an outer peripheral wall and a bottom portion attached to the outer peripheral wall, the inner peripheral wall being spaced relative to the outer peripheral wall to define a gap between the inner peripheral wall and the outer peripheral wall, the base spaced apart from the bottom portion to define a cavity between the base and the bottom portion;
- a lid hingedly coupleable or removably coupleable to the container body;
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- a temperature control system housed in the cavity of the container body, comprising
- one or more thermoelectric elements configured to actively heat or cool at least a portion of the chamber,
- one or more batteries,
- circuitry configured to control an operation of the one or more thermoelectric elements to heat or cool at least a portion of the chamber to a predetermined temperature or temperature range, the circuitry further configured to wirelessly communicate with a cloud-based data storage system or a remote electronic device;
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- an electronic display screen disposed on one or both of the container body and the lid, the display screen configured to selectively display shipping information for the portable cooler container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.