Container
AssigneeIsosafe Limited
InventorArthur Wheeler
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Abstract
A portable container (10) for receiving contents for transport while regulating the temperature of the contents includes a combined heater and/or cooler in the form of a Peltier effect device (50), a removable inner receptacle (70) for receiving the contents, an air gap around the outside of the inner receptacle, and a control unit (62) for controlling the Peltier effect device so as to regulate the temperature of the air around the outside of the inner receptacle and thereby regulate the temperature of the contents of the inner receptacle. The control unit can have a temperature logging system for recording the temperature history of the contents of the container.
Claims28
A portable container for receiving contents for transport while regulating the temperature of the contents, the portable container comprising heating and/or cooling means in the form of a Peltier effect device, a removable inner receptacle for receiving the contents, and a control unit for controlling the Peltier effect device;
- characterized in that the inner receptacle occupies most of the space in the container, with an air gap around substantially the entire periphery of the removable inner receptacle, and in that the control unit controls the Peltier effect device so as to regulate the temperature of the air around the outside of the inner receptacle and thereby regulate the temperature of the contents of the inner receptacle.
A portable container having heating and/or cooling means in the form of a Peltier effect device, wherein the Peltier device is mounted in a block of elastomeric material which is in turn mounted to a housing of the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.