Patent ID: 8344246

Claim:
A cooling apparatus, comprising: at least one cooling member having an outer perimeter and an inner perimeter, the outer perimeter including a plurality of receptacles for receiving a corresponding one of a plurality of current carrying cables, the inner perimeter defining a central opening; the outer perimeter being defined according to the following equation: OD = n * d c ⁡ ( 1 π + 1 3 ) , the inner perimeter being defined according to the following equation: ID = ( 0.85 * n * d c π ) , where n is equal to a number of the plurality of current carrying cables and d c is the corresponding cable diameter; wherein each receptacle has a cross-sectional size conforming to a cross-sectional size of the corresponding cable, and each receptacle has a pair of opposing outer lips having a spacing therebetween, the spacing being less than a diameter of the corresponding cable; wherein each corresponding cable is received at an offset from an adjacent corresponding cable, the offset being defined by the following equation: offset = ( OD 2 - 0.75 * d c 2 ) , where the offset is equal to a distance from a center of the corresponding cable diameter to a center of the adjacent corresponding cable diameter.