Patent ID: 8193450

Claim:
A wire bridge, comprising: a base component including a first base portion and a second base portion situated at first and second sides of the wire bridge respectively, wherein the first base portion and the second base portion are configured to secure the wire bridge to a flat surface associated with an electrically powered system; and a bridge component including: a bridge portion having a channel component and a fin component; the channel component configured to be in contact with a first set of wires of the electrically powered system to facilitate dissipation of heat from the first set of wires, the channel component including a plurality of channels, wherein a first channel of the plurality of channels is configured to hold a first wire of the first set of wires, and each channel of the plurality of channels includes a well defined by adjacent channel walls of a predetermined channel height including a well bottom configured to be in contact with a respective wire of the first set of wires, wherein the adjacent channel walls extend upwards from the well bottom; the fin component including one or more heat fins to facilitate the dissipation of heat generated by the first set of wires, wherein the one or more heat fins extend downwards from at least one of the well bottoms of the plurality of channels; a first wall portion, an upper end of the first wall portion is connected to a first end of the bridge portion and a lower end of the first wall portion is connected to the first base portion of the base component; and a second wall portion, an upper end of the second wall portion is connected to a second end of the bridge portion, the second end opposite the first end, and a lower end of the second wall portion is connected to the second base portion of the base component, wherein the first wall portion and the second wall portion are substantially perpendicular to the bridge portion and the base component.