Validation device and method

• US 6,918,312 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2002
• Issued: 07/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Thermo Electron Corporation (Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Kendro Laboratory Products LP (Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated)
• Inventors: Elwood, Bryan M., Tipton, Walter Jeff, Butts, Charles G.
• Primary Examiner(s): RAEVIS, ROBERT R
• Application Number:
  US10/156,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20030221486A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• Field of Search: 738/665, 738/658, 737/60, 737/81, 737/83, 737/74, 737/75, 737/76, 737/77, 737/78, 737/79, 737/80, 73/290.1, 374/141, 374/142, 374/208
• US Class Current: 73/866.5
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 1/00 Enclosures; Chambers provided with manipulation devices or glove boxes B25J21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 15/00 Testing or calibrating of thermometers

Abstract

A testing apparatus is disclosed that includes an expandable mechanical structure, and logging devices that are coupled to the mechanical structure and serially networked together. The testing apparatus of the present invention is utilized to accommodate storage units, such as refrigerators, freezers and incubators, of various sizes.

Claims

1. A method for testing environmental conditions within a storage unit, comprising:

expanding a mechanical structure having sensors mounted thereon within the storage unit;

recording environmental conditions within the storage unit using said sensors; and

displaying the environmental conditions in real-time.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising downloading the environmental conditions to a processor.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the recorded data.