Patent ID: 8542489

Claim:
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; a cooler attached to the rack and being able to circulate a cooling fluid around a channel forming a closed loop; and 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; and wherein 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, and wherein one of the heat conduits has a hinge and an outer shell, and the outer shell of the one heat conduit is removably clamped around a portion of a heat pipe of the heat conduit.