Patent ID: 7630864
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: A01K,E05B,F25D,G01K,G01N,G07C

Abstract:
1. A monitoring device adapted to be affixed onto or placed within a shipping crate for transport from a shipping station to a recipient at a recipient location, and holding as contents thereof sensitive materials; the monitoring device identifying for the recipient and the shipping station, upon delivery, whether said contents have been subjected to compromising conditions during transit of the crate, with said shipping crate having a body in which said sensitive materials are to be stored and shipped and a cover for closing off the body of the shipping crate; the monitoring device comprising: means securing the monitoring device onto or within the shipping crate; sensor means disposed inside the shipping crate for sensing one or more conditions of the contents of said shipping crate during transit; control circuit means coupled to said sensor means and having embedded software therein to maintain a log of said one or more conditions during transit, said control circuit means being adapted to generate a safe-shipment coded sequence representing a safe condition for said contents and to generate a different compromised-shipment coded sequence representing a compromised conditions of said contents, each said coded sequence being based on sensor-provided information concerning the contents of said shipping crate during transit; means for presenting one or the other of said coded sequences, wherein the control circuit means presents one or the other of said safe-shipment coded sequence and said compromised shipment coded sequence; and means for transmitting the safe-shipment or compromised-shipment coded sequence as presented by said control circuit to said shipping station.