Temperature-controllable container with vacuum insulation elements

US11629911B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• va-Q-tec AG · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Kuhn · Würzburg, DE
• Sebastian Schmidt · Weisendorf, DE
• Thomas Taraschewski · Würzburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 6, 2019
• Grant date: Apr 18, 2023
• Expiry date: Sep 1, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02B40/00
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Temperature-controllable container with vacuum insulation elements and with an interior space, which container comprises a wall with an opening for objects to be placed into the interior space, and a door element closing the opening, wherein transport elements are arranged on an outer surface of the container, which transport elements are designed to enable lifting by means of a transport vehicle, and wherein the container further comprises a temperature control unit which is designed so as to bring the interior space to a predetermined temperature T, wherein the temperature control unit comprises a heating/cooling unit operated via a solar energy device or a heating/cooling unit operated via a power supply network, and wherein a receptacle means for melt-storage elements or sample bodies is arranged in the interior space, which receptacle means is designed so as to position at least two melt-storage elements or sample bodies at a distance from each other.