Patent ID: 7236363

Claim:
A liquid cooled modular electronics system, comprising: one or more sealed electronics modules, a sealed electronics module including: one or more electronics components arranged within the sealed electronics module; one or more connectors attached to the sealed electronics module, the connectors configured to provide one or more detachable connections between the sealed electronics module and liquid transporting means for providing liquid communication between the sealed electronics module and one or more external liquid cooling modules; and means arranged within the sealed electronics module for dissipating heat generated by one or more of the one or more electronics components using liquid that is transported between the sealed electronics module and the external liquid cooling module; and one or more liquid cooling modules, a liquid cooling module including: one or more connectors attached to the liquid cooling module, the connectors configured to provide one or more detachable connections between the liquid cooling module and the liquid transporting means; means arranged within the liquid cooling module for receiving a liquid to be cooled; means arranged within the liquid cooling module for cooling the liquid to be cooled into a cooled liquid; means arranged within the liquid cooling module for providing the cooled liquid to one or more sealed electronics modules via the liquid transporting means; and means arranged within the liquid cooling module for dissipating heat transferred to the liquid cooling module from the liquid to be cooled; where the one or more liquid cooling modules and the one or more sealed electronics modules are separate modules that can be selectively connected together by the one or more detachable connections to establish liquid communication therebetween, and where the one or more sealed electronics modules are configured to be dynamically operably connected by a detachable connection to the one or more second liquid cooling electronics modules, and where the one or more sealed electronics modules and the one or more liquid cooling electronics modules are to be positioned in a single rack.