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US 6,332,251 B1Granted
Retaining device for a heat sink
AssigneeAdda Corp.
InventorsChih-Lung Ho, Frank Shyu
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Abstract
A retaining device has a retaining belt and a handle pivotally connected with the retaining belt and having an arcuate portion and a flat portion. When the handle pivots relative to the retaining belt and when the arcuate portion engages the heat sink, the engagement between the heat sink and the socket will be enhanced. When the flat portion engages the heat sink, the engagement between the heat sink and the socket will be loosened.
Claims6
A retaining device for attaching a heat sink to a CPU socket, comprising:
- a retaining belt having a clamp formed on each free end thereof and having a through hole defined for receiving latch blocks of the socket;
- a handle pivotally engaged with the retaining belt and having two legs respectively formed to correspond to one of the clamps, each leg having an arcuate portion and a flat portion formed on the outer periphery thereof, and
- whereby when the handle pivots relative to the retaining belt, the engagement of the arcuate portions to the heat sink will secure the engagement between the heat sink and the socket and the engagement of the flat portions to the heat sink will loosen the engagement between the heat sink and the socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.