LIQUID CONTAINER FEATURING IMPROVED TEMPERATURE-REGULATING STRUCTURE

• US 20170138647A1
• Filed: 04/01/2016
• Published: 05/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jia Fang Zhang
• Original Assignee: Jia Fang Zhang
• Inventors: Zhang, Jia Fang
• Application Number:
  US15/088,892
• Publication Number:
  US 20170138647A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 43/02 Removable lids or covers with means for piercing, cutting, or tearing a frangible inner closure B65D51/22
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/18 providing specific environment for contents, e.g. temperature above or below ambient with thermal insulation B65D81/38; ice-boxes with cooling means F25D
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 21/04 reversible
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 2321/023 Mounting details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 2321/0251 by a gas
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 31/003 with immersed cooling element
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 9/00 Devices not associated with refrigerating machinery and not covered by groups F25D1/00 - F25D7/00; Combinations of devices covered by two or more of the groups F25D1/00 - F25D7/00

Abstract

A liquid container featuring an improved temperature-regulating structure includes a main body defining therein a first space, a thermally conductive member extending from a floor of the main body into the first space so as to make the first space a thermally conductive area, a base having a second space separated from the first space, and a temperature-regulating member when energized conducting cool or heat to the thermally conductive member, so that liquid in the thermally conductive area can be cooled or heated directly by the thermally conductive member.

Claims

1. A liquid container featuring an improved temperature-regulating structure, comprising:

a main body, having a circular wall and a floor that jointly define and enclose a first space for receiving a liquid, and the main body having atop an opening that is communicated with the first space, and is covered and sealed by a lid;

a thermally conductive member, being bonded to the floor of the main body, and extending from the floor of the main body into the first space, so that a thermally conductive area is formed in the first space around the thermally conductive member;

a base, being attached to the floor of the main body from below, and defining therein a second space so that the first space and the second space are separated by the floor;

a temperature-regulating member, being located in the second space of the base and below the thermally conductive member, and conductively transferring cold or heat to the thermally conductive member through the floor of the first space, and the temperature-regulating member having a heat sink located in the second space; and

a power supply, being located in the second space of the base, and electrically connected to the temperature-regulating member, so as to power the temperature-regulating member as needed.

2. The liquid container of claim 1, wherein the thermally conductive member in the first space is attached to the floor from above so as to be exposed in the first space.

3. The liquid container of claim 1, wherein the floor has a raised portion extending into the first space, in which the raised portion defines therein a chamber separated from the first space, and the thermally conductive member is located in the chamber and bonded to the raised portion so as to extend into the first space.

4. The liquid container of claim 1, wherein the temperature-regulating member is a cooling chip.

5. The liquid container of claim 1, wherein the base has a plurality of heat-dissipating vents.

6. The liquid container of claim 1, wherein the base has a top and the main body has its floor bonded to the top of the base, in which the temperature-regulating member is in the second space and inlaid in the top, so as to conduct cold or heat to the thermally conductive member through the top of the base and the floor of the main body.

7. The liquid container of claim 1, wherein the power supply is a battery.