System and method for assembling hook type heatsink
AssigneeARRIS Enterprises LLC
InventorTi-Hsing Hsieh
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Abstract
A system is provided for installing a heatsink onto a circuit board. The heatsink has a base, a first hook and a second hook. The system includes a heatsink holder, a circuit board arm, a heatsink pusher, and a hook pusher. The heatsink holder is operable to receive the heatsink. The circuit board arm is operable to move the circuit board onto the heatsink received on the heatsink holder such that the bottom surface of the heatsink is adjacent to the circuit board. The heatsink pusher is operable to move the heatsink holder in a first direction so as to move the first hook relative to the first catch. The hook pusher is operable to push the first hook in a direction normal to the base from the top surface to the bottom surface.
Claims7
A system of installing a heatsink onto a circuit board, the heatsink having a base, a first hook and a second hook, the base having a top surface and a bottom surface, the first hook being biased in a direction normal to the base from the bottom surface to the top surface, the second hook being biased in the direction normal to the base from the bottom surface to the top surface, the circuit board having a receiving area to receive the base, a first catch arranged to be hooked by the first hook and a second catch arranged to be hooked by the second hook, the system comprising:
- a heatsink platform operable to receive the heatsink so that the bottom surface of the heatsink is adjacent to the circuit board;
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- a controller programmed to:
- move the heatsink platform in a first direction and a second direction so as to move the first hook relative to the first catch;
- push the first hook in a direction normal to the base from the top surface to the bottom surface:
- move the heatsink platform in a third direction so as to move the second hook relative to the second catch;
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- push the second hook in the direction normal to the base from the top surface to the bottom surface,
- wherein moving the heatsink platform in the first direction also moves the first hook so as to not to interfere with the first catch and moving the heatsink platform in the second direction also moves the first hook so as to be received by the first catch after the first hook is pushed in the direction normal to the base from the top surface of the bottom surface.
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