Patent ID: 8418751

Claim:
A cooler comprising: a base layer; a cooling layer disposed on the base layer and comprising at least one inlet slot and at least one outlet slot for flowing a coolant across a cooling structure comprising at least three heat exchange zones, wherein a first inlet slot is disposed between a first adjacent pair of the heat exchange zones and a first outlet slot is disposed between a second adjacent pair of the heat exchange zones, the cooling structure comprising a plurality of staggered fins arranged in rows and columns, wherein fins of adjacent columns are staggered; and a multilayer manifold disposed on the cooling layer for flowing the coolant from a cooler inlet to the at least one inlet slot and from the at least one outlet slot to a cooler outlet, the multilayer manifold having a bottom layer, a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer, and a top layer sequentially disposed on the cooling layer, the top layer comprising the cooler inlet and the cooler outlet, the bottom layer comprising a plurality of tapered slots disposed over respective ones of the inlet slots and outlet slots, the first intermediate layer comprising a plurality of chambers corresponding to respective ones of the tapered slots of the bottom layer, and the second intermediate layer connecting groups of the chambers to one of the cooler inlet and the cooler outlet.