Carrier Corporation

Stephen Varga

Richard Desmarais

Yu Chen

Giorgio Rusignuolo

Jeffrey Allen Leshuk

Greg Deldicque

Robin L Wald

Blair Streit

Tim Uys

Craig Stephen Blumsack

Thibaut Gavignet

Heston Grant Woolf

Bill Games

Yu H Chen

Richard Mark Desmarais

A tracking device () configured to track a shipment of cargo is provided including a housing () having a complementary top portion () and bottom portion (). The top portion and the bottom portion of the housing are pivotally coupled. A tracking unit, arranged within the housing, includes a processor configured to collect and transmit data. A power unit having at least one power source is arranged within the housing and is configured to supply power to the tracking unit. A circuit board connects the power unit and the tracking unit. The circuit board includes a metal tab arranged adjacent a conductive interface. A portion of a pull tab () formed from a thin, non-conductive material is arranged between the tab and the conductive interface. The tracking device is configured to transform from an inactive state to a fully active state upon removal of the pull tab ().

Tracking device

A portable power device including an enclosure, a plurality of power elements housed within the enclosure, and a controller housed within the enclosure and configured to control the power output of the plurality of power elements. The controller is configured to determine if the portable power device is located on an aircraft that is operating in a stationary, taxiing, or flight mode, and if the aircraft is in the stationary, taxiing, or flight mode, to prevent power to be supplied from the plurality of power elements.

Automatically enabled airplane-mode portable power source

A method and system for use with a volume containing a cargo having a thermal mass includes, at least one temperature sensor associated with the cargo to provide at least one temperature associated with the thermal mass, a refrigeration unit associated with the volume, and a controller to control the refrigeration unit in response to the at least one temperature associated with the thermal mass and a temperature set point, wherein the controller models a temperature characteristic of the thermal mass.

Embedded cargo sensors for a refrigeration system

An aircraft proximity sensor system includes a control module in communication with a transceiver module and an aircraft proximity sensor module, the control module operable to disable transmission by the transceiver module in response to the aircraft proximity sensor module.

Aircraft proximity sensor system for radio frequency transmission device

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Bedford, NH, United States of America

Stephen Varga