Portable refrigeration apparatus
AssigneeThe Sure Chill Company Limited
InventorIan Tansley
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Abstract
The present application is related to a portable refrigeration apparatus for vaccines, food items, beverage containers, or any other item. The apparatus includes a refrigerated container comprised of a plurality of substantially identical chilling panels interconnected to form a sealed container that defines an internal volume, each of the chilling panels containing a cooling element. The refrigerated container encloses an internal storage space and has a generally modular design to facilitate packaging and transportation. The apparatus permits the internal storage space to maintain a temperature in the range of 4° C.˜8° C. for a long period of time following a loss of electrical power.
Claims11
A chilling panel comprising:
- a casing layer that is thermally insulating and forms an exterior side of the chilling panel;
- a coolant compartment defined by thermally conductive side walls abutting an interior side of the casing layer and configured to contain a cooling element;
- an inner wall layer constructed of thermally conductive material and forms the interior side of the chilling panel;
- a liquid reservoir compartment defined as the volume between the inner wall layer and a combination of the coolant compartment and the casing layer, and in fluid communication with the coolant compartment;
- an internal thermal insulator affixed to the coolant compartment, the internal thermal insulator positioned and sized such that liquid contained in the liquid reservoir compartment is thermally insulated from the cooling element in the coolant compartment on a surface of the coolant compartment parallel with a major plane of the chilling panel;
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- means for removably interconnecting the chilling panel with a number of other chilling panels so that when interconnected, a combination of the chilling panel and the other chilling panels forms a sealed container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.