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Monitored environment container

US5481245A · kind A · utility

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10Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJan 11, 1994
Grant dateJan 2, 1996
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Expiry dateJan 11, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG08B13/1436
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A container for transporting, storing, and handling sensitive items has a housing within which at least one sensitive item is stowable, and a monitoring system for monitoring a plurality of separate parameters to which the sensitive item(s) are sensitive. The monitoring system records and provides data regarding the parameters to which the sensitive item(s) are sensitive. The monitoring systems preferably utilizes such sensors as a vibration sensor, a shock sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a magnetic field sensor, an unauthorized opening sensor, and/or an attitude sensor.

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