Portable cooler container
AssigneeEmber Technologies, Inc.
InventorsClayton Alexander, Daren John Leith, Christopher Thomas Wakeham, Mikko Juhani Timperi, Rahul Mulinti
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Abstract
A portable cooler container is provided, with a payload chamber for one or more temperature sensitive or perishable goods. A cooling unit is disposed in the payload chamber. The cooling unit includes a vessel filled with a cooling material (e.g., dry ice) and closed with a lid. One or more variable apertures of the cooling unit are operable to controllably release a chilled gas (e.g., CO2 gas) generated by the cooling material into the payload chamber of the vessel to cool the payload.
Claims22
A portable cooler container system, comprising:
- a thermally insulated vessel having a payload chamber configured to receive a payload of one or more temperature sensitive or perishable goods;
- a first lid hingedly coupled or removably coupled to the thermally insulated vessel and configured to seal the chamber of the thermally insulated vessel, the first lid having one or more pressure relief valves configured to at least partially open when pressure in the chamber exceeds a predetermined pressure amount;
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- a cooling unit removably disposed in the payload chamber of the thermally insulated vessel that receives the payload so that the payload and cooling unit are in a single chamber, comprising
- a cooling vessel defining a chamber configured to receive a cooling material therein,
- a second lid hingedly coupled or removably coupled to the cooling vessel and configured to seal the chamber of the cooling vessel, the second lid configured to removably couple to a base surface of the payload chamber, and
- one or more variable apertures in one of the cooling vessel and the second lid that are operable to controllably release a chilled gas generated by the cooling material into the payload chamber of the thermally insulated vessel to cool the payload to one or more of a plurality of predetermined temperatures or temperature ranges.
A portable cooler container system, comprising:
- a cooling unit, comprising
- a cooling vessel defining a chamber configured to receive a cooling material therein and sized to receive a payload of one or more temperature sensitive or perishable goods adjacent one or more surfaces of the cooling material so that the one or more temperature sensitive or perishable goods and the cooling material are in a single chamber,
- a lid hingedly coupled or removably coupled to the cooling vessel and configured to seal the chamber of the cooling vessel, and
- one or more variable apertures in one of the cooling vessel and the lid that are operable to controllably release a chilled gas generated by the cooling material from the chamber of the cooling vessel to one or more of a plurality of predetermined temperatures or temperature ranges.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.