Modular container for groceries or other products
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsSeow Yuen Yee, Philip Roan
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Abstract
A modular container such as a mobile refrigerator is configured to attach to a larger in-home refrigerator. The modular container has an attachment feature configured to selectively attach and detach from a first attachment feature of the larger refrigerator to enable the modular container to be selectively attached and detached from the interior compartment of the larger refrigerator. A door of the modular container is configured to selectively enclose an interior of the modular container. The modular container has its own dedicated refrigeration system mounted thereon, enabling the modular container to act as its own refrigerator once removed from the larger refrigerator.
Claims13
A refrigerator comprising:
- an interior compartment having a first attachment feature;
- and a modular container having:
- a second attachment feature configured to selectively attach and detach from the first attachment feature enabling the modular container to be selectively attached and detached from the interior compartment,
- a door configured to selectively enclose an interior of the modular container,
- a dedicated refrigeration system mounted on the modular container that includes at least one of the following:
- condenser coils, evaporator coils, or a battery,
- a plurality of walls that define a perimeter of an interior volume of the modular container,
- a first interior compartment partially defined by a first of the walls, and
- a second interior compartment partially defined by a second of the walls,
- wherein the first of the walls is slidable relative to the second of the walls to expand the perimeter of the interior volume of the modular container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.