Container Temperature Measurement Device With Deviation Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Pharmaceutical products are exposed to external air during delivery and storage processes, risking temperature deviations that compromise quality, and existing systems fail to adequately monitor and ensure temperature compliance in delivery and medical facility storage containers.
Innovation Solution
A temperature measurement device with a temperature sensor, deviation determination unit, control unit, and notification unit is integrated into a container to monitor and alert on temperature deviations, ensuring quality until products are used.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If pharmaceutical products are stored in delivery containers and medical facility refrigerators during transfer processes, then temperature control is maintained to ensure quality, but temperature deviations occur when containers temporarily fail or lids are open
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous temperature monitoring with real-time feedback to the control unit. When temperature deviates from the reference range, the system immediately detects this change and triggers notifications to relevant personnel, enabling timely corrective action to prevent quality degradation of pharmaceutical products during delivery and storage processes
Solution Approach 2:
The temperature sensor continuously monitors temperature at predetermined intervals throughout the entire supply chain, from delivery container to medical facility refrigerator. This continuous monitoring ensures that temperature deviations are detected without interruption, maintaining reliable temperature control across all transfer processes including loading, unloading, and storage operations
2Reliability
If continuous temperature monitoring is implemented from delivery to administration, then quality assurance is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The temperature measurement device is designed as a self-contained unit with integrated sensor, control unit, and notification system. The device autonomously performs temperature monitoring, deviation detection, and notification without requiring external complex monitoring infrastructure. This self-service capability simplifies the overall system while ensuring continuous quality assurance from delivery through administration
Solution Approach 2:
The temperature measurement device serves multiple functions: it monitors temperature continuously, determines deviations from reference ranges, counts consecutive deviations, and sends notifications. By consolidating these functions into a single device, the patent reduces system complexity while maintaining comprehensive quality assurance capabilities across the entire pharmaceutical supply chain
3Measurement precision
If temperature is monitored at predetermined intervals, then measurement precision is maintained, but frequency of monitoring must be sufficient to detect deviations
Solution Approach 1:
The system monitors temperature at predetermined time intervals while maintaining sufficient frequency to detect deviations. The control unit evaluates whether detected temperature deviations exceed the reference range and tracks the number of consecutive deviations. This parameter-based approach ensures both measurement precision and monitoring efficiency by triggering notifications only when significant deviations occur, rather than requiring constant high-frequency alerting
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables continuous quality assurance of pharmaceutical products by detecting and notifying temperature deviations, ensuring compliance with reference ranges until use.
Implementation Method 1
a temperature sensor (25d) that detects a temperature of the pharmaceutical products (articles)
Data Source
AI summary
A temperature measurement device 25A is a temperature measurement device 25A that includes a temperature sensor 25d and that is accommodated in a container 21 along with an article 23, and includes a temperature deviation determination unit 25h that determines whether a temperature of the article 23 in the container 21 having been detected by the temperature sensor 25d at a predetermined measurement interval has deviated from a reference temperature range, a control unit 25g that enables a temperature deviation flag when the number of times the temperature of the article 43 in the container 21 has consecutively deviated from the reference temperature range exceeds a reference number as a result of determination by the temperature deviation determination unit 25h, and a notification unit 25f that notifies a fact that the temperature deviation flag has been enabled by the control unit 25g.