Patent ID: 8869543

Claim:
A cooling assembly for cooling an aircraft apparatus generating heat, the cooling assembly comprising: a feed pipe; a thermal body having a fluid channel, wherein a fluid with a first temperature is provided by the feed pipe from the aircraft apparatus to the fluid channel; the fluid channel being adapted to dissipate thermal energy from the fluid to the thermal body, a Peltier element having a hot side and a cold side; wherein the thermal body is arranged in heat-conductive contact with the cold side of the Peltier element; and a cooling device having at least one first cooling element and at least one second cooling element; wherein the second cooling element is arranged in heat-conductive contact with the hot side of the Peltier element and is arranged without direct heat-conductive contact with an aircraft structure, the second cooling element absorbs thermal energy from the hot side of the Peltier element and dissipates thermal energy to an air flow, when the cooling assembly is mounted to cool the aircraft apparatus; wherein the first cooling element is arranged in heat-conductive contact with the aircraft structure and is arranged without direct heat-conductive contact with the Peltier element, the first cooling element absorbs thermal energy from the air flow and dissipates thermal energy to the aircraft structure, when the cooling assembly is mounted to cool the aircraft apparatus; and wherein the first cooling element and the second cooling element are structurally spaced apart from one another.