Patent ID: 6952345

Claim:
An apparatus comprising a cooling structure including: a heat receiving portion having a footprint and configured to receive heat within said footprint from a heat generating structure, said footprint having a width in a first direction; an inlet portion for a fluid coolant, said inlet portion being disposed within said width of said footprint with respect to said first direction; an outlet portion for said fluid coolant, said outlet portion being disposed within said width of said footprint with respect to said first direction, said inlet portion and said outlet portion being spaced from said heat receiving portion with respect to a second direction approximately normal to said first direction; a coolant supply portion configured to guide a fluid coolant from said inlet portion to the region of said heat receiving portion, said coolant supply portion being disposed in its entirety within said width of said footprint with respect to said first direction; and a coolant application portion configured to receive said coolant from said coolant supply portion and to guide said coolant from the region of said heat receiving portion to said outlet portion, said coolant application portion being disposed in its entirety within said width of said footprint with respect to said first direction, said coolant receiving heat at said heat receiving portion after traveling through said coolant supply portion and before traveling through said coolant application portion.