Patent ID: 8485132

Claim:
A live fish container including a cargo room of the type in which a driver unit is installed at a rear side of the cargo room in such a manner that it is integrally formed with a container main body or separately assembled with the container main body, a control part, a plurality of live fish water tanks and a plurality of wet-type filtering tanks, which are installed in the cargo room, and a water cooling apparatus installed at the driver unit as a refrigerating unit, which includes a compressor, a condenser and an expansion valve, wherein the improvement comprises: a protein skimmer and a bubble tank installed in an interior of the cargo room, a water cooler for cooling live fish water by virtue of heat exchange with refrigerants, the water cooler being installed in the driver unit, and an air blower for introducing external air, the air blower being installed in the driver unit; a water exhaust tube extending from the live fish water tanks, the water exhaust tube being fluid-communicated with the protein skimmer, and a water supply tube extending from the protein skimmer, the water supply tube being fluid-communicated with the live fish water tanks, in which a pump is disposed at a middle portion of the water exhaust tube; a bubble outlet formed at an upper end of the protein skimmer and fluid-communicated with the bubble tank via a guide channel, a nozzle formed at the water exhaust tube at a position between the protein skimmer and the pump, in which an air supply tube is fluid-communicated with the nozzle; the water cooler formed as a double tube-type heat exchanger such that a water cooling tube is longitudinally inserted into a refrigerant tube, in which the water cooling tube is fluid-communicated with a water exhaust tube having a circulation pump and extending from wet-type filtering tanks, and a water supply tube extending from the water cooling tube is fluid-communicated with the live fish water tanks in the cargo room; an air supply tube installed in the interior of the cargo room such that one end thereof being fluid-communicated with the air blower of the driver unit; and an exhaust pipe formed through a main door or a wall (W) of the container main body.