US 11,744,258 B1
Smart freezer for organizing breast milk storage bags
David Gruszka de los Rios, Sunny Isles Beach, FL (US); Gilberto Antonio Román Balcone, Barcelona (VE); José Gerardo de Jesús Sánchez Marín, Lecheria (VE); Simón Antonio Díaz Abad, Barcelona (VE); and Jósedavid Manzanares Arroyave, Puerto la Cruz (VE)
Assigned to PHILON LABS LLC, Aventura, FL (US)
Filed by PHILON LABS LLC, Aventura, FL (US)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/819,363.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/232,947, filed on Aug. 13, 2021.
Int. Cl. A23C 3/05 (2006.01); A23C 9/20 (2006.01)
CPC A23C 3/055 (2013.01) [A23C 9/206 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A freezer for organizing breast milk storage bags comprising:
a refrigerated enclosure adapted to reach freezing temperatures that further includes a compressor, an evaporator, a blowing fan, one or more temperature sensors, a controller configured to control the start and shut down of the compressor and a main insulated door that seals the refrigerated compartment;
a vertical carousel type conveyor having two sides and a plurality of racks rotating around its vertical axis, each of the plurality of racks partitioned into a plurality of compartments adapted to receive breast milk storage bags;
at each rack, a pivot mechanism comprising a pair of pivot hubs located offset from the center of mass on each side of the rack, an embedded scissor links assembly on each hub, and a guide link with a roller on it end is attached to the distal end of each hub;
a drive mechanism in the vertical carousel type conveyor, the drive mechanism comprising two or more drive roller chains each comprising a plurality of chain links, wherein the scissors links are attached to chain links at a fixed distance, two or more driver sprockets connected through a shaft wherein the drive roller chains engages the two or more driver sprockets, and an electric motor assembly that drives the driver sprockets;
a motion guide mechanism comprising a fixed track guide on both sides of the vertical carousel type conveyor adapted to engage the guide links to prevent the racks from swinging back and forth;
a secondary insulated door comprising a drop-down mechanism adapted to provide access to the inside of the refrigerated enclosure, further including a load sensor adapted to weighing the breast milk storage bags;
a plurality of light sources that indicates in which of the plurality of compartments a selected breast milk storage bag is located; and
a control panel with a display adapted to provide a user interface for controlling the apparatus.