Environmentally adaptable transport device

Abstract

A temperature regulating device capable for environmentally adaptable transport of transporting temperature sensitive products is provided including an insulated casing having an interior portion and a temperature regulating device for maintaining the interior portion at a temperature range lower than ambient temperature exterior to the interior portion, wherein the temperature regulating device maintains the lower temperature without external power sources. The temperature device is personally portable and includes a backpack attachment for transporting by a single individual.

Description

RELATED APPLICATION INFORMATION [0001] This patent application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 634,419 filed by Crumlin et al. on Dec. 8, 2004, the entire contents of which is incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND [0002] 1. Technical Field [0003] The present disclosure generally relates to a temperature regulating device and, more particularly, to a portable, environmentally adaptable temperature transport device for transporting temperature sensitive products. [0004] 2. Description of the Related Art [0005] There are many often life dependent situations in which a product or substance must be kept under a strict temperature range for a given amount of time, yet may need to travel to areas that do not have an established power grid or availability of a large, consistent power supply. In many areas of society, be it organ transport, vaccine transport to developing nations medical / biological products, animal transport, or the preservation of foodstuffs,...

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Benefits of technology

[0009] The environmentally adaptable transport device according to the present disclosure uses a portable temperature regulating technology that may be used to carry any variety of products or substances that must be transported in a temperature controlled environment. The transport device may include a casing having an interior portion and a temperature regulating device for maintaining the interior portion at a temperature range lower than an ambient temperature exterior to the interior portion. The temperature regulating device is able to maintain the temperature range within the interior of the casing without the use of consistent, intermittent or variable external power sources.

Problems solved by technology

There are many often life dependent situations in which a product or substance must be kept under a strict temperature range for a given amount of time, yet may need to travel to areas that do not have an established power grid or availability of a large, consistent power supply.

(36-46° F.) and may no longer be viable if the temperature deviates outside this range, this presents a great problem as strict temperature control is extremely difficult to maintain during the final destination journeys from the cities to the rural areas and account for 75-80% of all vaccine wastage alone.

Moreover, since the tendency is to bring more vaccines than are needed in an area, once the cooling source evaporates or expires, the excess vaccines also go to waste.

However, these known systems fail to meet the highly specific requirements for transporting sensitive substances, such as vaccines.

Generally, two main issues present these failures.

The first failure being sufficient temperature regulation of the environment in which these substances are transported.

The adaptability to varying environments and substances in terms of temperature regulation using these cold carriers is quite limited in flexibility of temperature.

The second failure is transportability.

However, most of these are not designed for single or multiple person portability.

Rather, these known refrigerated transport units generally require a powerful consistent and accessible power supply, which is typically not available in many areas of the world.

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