Patent ID: 7400504

Claim:
A method of fabricating a cooling apparatus for facilitating cooling of an electronics assembly comprising a support structure supporting multiple heat generating electronics components to be cooled, the method comprising: providing multiple discrete cold plates, each cold plate being configured to couple to a respective electronics component of the multiple electronics components, and each cold plate being a coolant-cooled cold plate including a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet with at least one coolant carrying channel disposed between the coolant inlet and coolant outlet; providing a common manifold for distributing coolant to the coolant inlets of the multiple cold plates and for receiving coolant from the cooling outlets of the multiple cold plates; coupling the multiple cold plates to the manifold employing multiple flexible hose segments to connect in fluid communication the coolant inlets of the multiple cold plates to the manifold and the coolant outlets of the multiple cold plates to the manifold; and employing a biasing mechanism coupled to the multiple cold plates to bias the multiple cold plates away from the manifold, and towards the multiple heat generating electronics components when the cooling apparatus is in use.