Patent ID: 7414843

Claim:
A system comprising: a thermal management arrangement including: a first substrate layer having a plurality of first channels with a first end and a second end in a first plane, a second substrate layer, coupled to the first substrate layer, having one or more flow-regulation features adapted to provide and regulate at least a portion of a first fluid flow to the plurality of first channels and to drain at least the portion of the first fluid flow from the plurality of first channels, the one or more flow-regulation features having a first manifold with a first end and a second end, the first manifold located in a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane, adapted to diffuse the first fluid flow from the first end of the first manifold to the second end of the first manifold in the second plane, and to provide the first fluid flow to the plurality of first channels at the first end of the plurality of first channels in the first plane, a third substrate layer including one or more flow-regulation features, coupled to the second substrate layer, having a first opening adapted to provide the first fluid flow to the one or more flow-regulation features, and a second opening adapted to drain the first fluid flow from the one or more flow-regulation features, a fourth substrate layer, coupled to the first substrate layer, having a second channel, and the one or more flow-regulation features of the third substrate layer adapted to provide and regulate at least a portion of a second fluid flow to the second channel and to drain at least the portion of the second fluid flow from the second channel; and a flow controller coupled to a first flow control device adapted to control a first flow rate of the first fluid, and coupled to a second flow control device adapted to control a second flow rate of the second fluid flow.