Patent ID: 7162886

Claim:
A cooling device with a coolant circuit placed in a device housing and having a compressor, an evaporator and a condenser with an inner circuit and an outer circuit, wherein the inner circuit is connected through a lateral wall of the device housing by an air inlet opening and an air outlet opening with a space to be cooled, including an interior of a switchgear cabinet, and the inner circuit is associated with the evaporator and the outer circuit with the evaporator of the coolant circuit, the cooling device comprising: a plurality of first lateral walls ( 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ), except for a second lateral wall ( 16 ) having an air inlet opening ( 31 ) and an air outlet opening ( 32 ) of the device housing ( 10 ), completely sealed, and the compressor ( 26 ) embodied as a base plate ( 27 ) with embedded coolant lines ( 29 ) and forming at least a part of the lateral wall ( 11 ) of the housing ( 10 ) and formed-on cooling ribs ( 28 ) protruding out of the exterior.