Patent ID: 7040381

Claim:
A cooling device comprising: a heat conducting cooling plate for the item or items to be cooled; and a platelike distributing device arranged in the vicinity of the cooling plate for a cooling fluid, said distributing device having, on a side facing the cooling plate, a plurality of outlet openings for the cooling fluid and at least one drain opening for the cooling fluid; wherein the distributing device has a first plate in which the outlet openings and a plurality of drain openings are uniformly distributed, a second plate and a third plate, which plates are superimposed relative to one another and of which two plates are such that one of said two plates bounds a feed channel connected with all of the outlet openings and one of said two plates bounds a drain channel connected with all of the drain openings, and wherein the outlet openings are arranged in spaced condition from the cooling plate and are directed toward the cooling plate.