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US 5,664,622 AGranted
Heat sink with deformable hangers for mounting
OwnerMing Der Chiouinventor
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Abstract
A heat sink has two hangers at two opposite sides for mounting, wherein the hangers are respectively made from a metal wire that can be bent into the desired shape for hanging on the ribs of any of a variety of CPU holders.
Claims1
In a heat sink for attachment to different sized CPU holders in a CPU comprising a heat sink, at least one CPU holder, and a CPU, the improvement comprising means for fixing said heat sink to one of a plurality of CPU holders, each of said CPU holders being of a different thickness;
- wherein said means includes two flexible hangers fixed at opposite sides of said heat sink, said two hangers being attached to ribs on said CPU holder;
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- wherein said flexible hangers consist of wires bent to a desired shape and then stretched and deformed to fit onto said ribs of said CPU holder, wherein two said flexible hangers are fixed at corner edges of said heat sink, and a remaining portion of each said two flexible hangers is stretched and deformed over said ribs on said CPU holder to be held thereby.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.