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US 5,964,285 AGranted
Heat sink
AssigneeYung-Tsai Chu
InventorYao-Lee Huang
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Abstract
A heat sink for use in a computer for dissipating heat which includes a flat base plate having elongated coupling grooves and upright cylindircal sockets in the coupling grooves, a plurality of U-shaped radiating fins respectively mounted in the elongated coupling grooves at the flat base plate, and a slotted holding down plate covered on the flat base plate and secured to the upright cylindrical sockets at the flat base plate to hold down the radiating fins.
Claims1
A heat sink comprising:
- a flat base plate, said flat base plate comprising a plurality of elongated coupling grooves arranged at a top side wall thereof, and a plurality of upright cylindrical sockets respectively raised from the top side wall in said elongated coupling grooves;
- a plurality of radiating fins respectively fastened to the elongated coupling grooves at said flat base plate, said radiating fins each comprising an elongated horizontal bottom wall respectively press-fitted into the elongated coupling grooves at said flat base plate, two vertical side walls perpendicularly raised from two opposite long sides of said elongated horizontal bottom wall and arranged in parallel, and at least one through hole at said elongated horizontal bottom wall through which said upright cylindrical sockets pass;
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- a holding down plate covered on said flat base plate to hold down said radiating fins, said holding down plate comprising a plurality of insertion slots through which the side walls of said radiating fins pass respectively, and a plurality of through holes respectively fastened to the upright cylindrical sockets at said flat base plate by a respective rivet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.