Box-type transport container

US10766685B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• va-Q-tec AG · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Kuhn · Würzburg, DE
• Ines Wallaschek · Würzburg, DE
• Peter Bauer · Los Gatos, US
• Martin Heinemann · Würzburg, DE
• Thomas Taraschewski · Würzburg, DE
• Fabian Eschenbach · Rottendorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 20, 2015
• Grant date: Sep 8, 2020
• Expiry date: Sep 11, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16L59/065
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A box-type transport container has a box-type outer container with a base, four side walls and at least one lid. The lid is hinged on a side wall. Sheet-type vacuum insulation panels are arranged in the outer container to cover the surface of the side walls. At least one carrying opening, which can be gripped by hand in order to carry the transport box, is provided in each of two opposing, side walls. The material of the side wall is weakened above and to the side of the carrying opening, such that the material can be easily separated from the surrounding material of the side wall and together with the carrying opening can be folded out of the side wall. Alternatively, the vacuum insulation panels of the side wall are secured in their relative positions by at least one peripheral tensioning means.