Alcatel Lucent

Jen-Hau Cheng

Paul Robert Kolodner

Maria Elina Simon

Todd Richard Salamon

William Harold Scofield

Susanne C Arney

Krishna-Murty Kota-Venkata

An apparatus comprising a rack having a row of shelves, each shelf supporting an electronics circuit board, each one of the circuit boards being manually removable from the shelve supporting the one of the circuit boards and having a local heat source thereon. The apparatus also comprises a cooler attached to the rack and being able to circulate a cooling fluid around a channel forming a closed loop. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of heat conduits, each heat conduit being located over a corresponding one of the circuit boards and forming a path to transport heat from the local heat source of the corresponding one of the circuit boards to the cooler. Each heat conduit is configured to be manually detachable from the cooler or the circuit board, without breaking a circulation pathway of the fluid through the cooler.

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New Providence, NJ, United States of America

Jen-Hau Cheng