Travel container with passive thermal control and a flexibile outer shell

a technology of flexible outer shell and travel container, which is applied in the direction of domestic cooling equipment, transportation and packaging, lighting and heating equipment, etc., can solve the problems of difficult transportation of temperature-sensitive goods, inability to reliably identify the range of internal temperature encountered in testing, and high cost of manufacturing. , to achieve the effect of close interior temperature control and low cos

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-05-01
MINNESOTA THERMAL SCI
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[0008] It is a further object of the invention to provide a shipping container having close interior temperature control, and which is inexpensive to make.

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The shipment of temperature-sensitive goods is extremely difficult when the shipping container itself is not independently temperature-controlled; ie, does not have an independent power source for maintaining interior temperatures within close parameters.
Such products and materials are usually fairly high in value and may be extremely temperature-sensitive.
However, this testing cannot reliably identify the range of internal temperatures which might be encountered, which depend upon the spatial relationship between the internal shipped object and the various other factors described above.

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[0012] Referring first to FIG. 1, there is shown an insulating container of the type known in the prior art. An outer carton 10 may be made from corrugated cardboard or the like. Inserted snugly into the outer carton 10 is a top and bottom insulating panel 12, and four side insulating panels 14. All insulating panels may be constructed of Styrofoam or the like, or any material having, good insulation qualities, ie., having a high thermal resistance “R”. The article to be shipped is typically placed in the interior volume 16 which is inside the inner insulating panels 14 and the top and bottom insulating panels 12, and then the carton is sealed and shipped. If extra cooling is desired, it may be necessary to also enclose a packet of cooling material such as ice, which gradually melts during the shipping transit time as heat is absorbed into the carton from outside, and the ice is transformed from a solid material to a liquid. It is preferable that the ice be carried inside a waterpro...

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Abstract

An apparatus for shipping articles under controlled temperature conditions, having a metallic article enclosure surrounded by a set of insulating panels, with a predetermined volume separation between the enclosure and the insulating panels, and the predetermined volume being filled with phase change material.

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[0001] This is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 411,847, filed Apr. 11, 2003, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 278,662 filed on Oct. 23, 2002.BACKGROUND [0002] The shipment of temperature-sensitive goods is extremely difficult when the shipping container itself is not independently temperature-controlled; ie, does not have an independent power source for maintaining interior temperatures within close parameters. Of course, if it is merely desired to maintain an object to be shipped at a nominally cooled temperature—relative to the ambient exterior temperature—a common practice is to pack a shipping container with ice, and hope that the ice and hope that the ice will remain in a frozen state during transit so that the object shipped will arrive at its destination still cooled below ambient temperature. This can be an adequate technique for shipping objects where temperature control is not critical. However, even i...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65D81/38B65D81/00
CPCB65D81/3816B65D81/382B65D81/3862B65D81/3855B65D81/3858B65D81/3823
Inventor MAYER, WILLIAM N.
Owner MINNESOTA THERMAL SCI
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