Liquid-cooled assembly

A receiving assembly to receive a removable communications module, comprising:

• a system board;
• an electrical socket disposed on a surface of the system board;
• an alignment assembly disposed on the system board and configured to engage the removable communications module so as to align the electrical contacts on a bottom surface of a module board with the electrical socket;
• a heat extraction assembly having a cold-plate device which is disposed above the electrical socket;
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• an engagement assembly having an engagement arm coupled to the heat extraction assembly, the engagement assembly being operable to engage with a lever assembly of the removable communications module as the removable communications module is engaged with the alignment assembly such that the lever assembly forces the engagement arm downwards such that the cold-plate device contacts and applies a positive pressure on a signal conversion chip of the removable communications module.

A liquid-cooled transceiver assembly, comprising:

• a hot-pluggable assembly, comprising:
• an electrical or optical transceiver faceplate connector unit;
• a System-on-Chip device, comprising:
• a signal conversion chip;
• an optical connector;
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• an optical jumper cable that is coupled between the signal conversion unit and the optical connector to transmit light signals there between;
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• a lever assembly which is operable to engage a receiving bay assembly such that the signal conversion chip is aligned and makes contact with an electrical socket;
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• the receiving bay assembly, comprising:
• a system board;
• an electrical socket disposed on a surface of the system board;
• a heat extraction assembly having a cold-plate device which is disposed above the electrical socket;
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• an engagement assembly having an engagement arm coupled to the heat extraction assembly, the engagement assembly being operable to engage with the lever assembly of the hot-pluggable assembly as the hot-pluggable assembly is engaged with an alignment assembly such that lever assembly forces the engagement arm downwards such that the cold-plate device contacts and applies a positive pressure on the signal conversion chip of the hot-pluggable assembly.