Removable mounting clip attaches a motorized fan to an active heat sink and then the entire assembly to a part to be cooled

A clip for attaching a fan to a heat sink and mounting that combination against a surface to be cooled, the clip comprising:

• first and second side straps, each having first and second locations whose distance apart along the side strap is generally the height of the heat sink with the fan attached, and each side strap having a resilient bend at each of the first and second locations, the bends forming on each side strap a pair of opposing contact surfaces that resiliently compress the fan and heat sink together by bearing against the fan with one of the opposing contact surfaces and against the fan with the other;
• a top strap extending between and joining the side straps proximate where their respective contact surfaces bears against the fan;
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• each side strap extending beyond the contact surface bearing against the heat sink, and each having therealong a generally resilient U-shaped bend terminating in a mounting tab that, when fastened against a mounting surface communicates the resilience of the U-shaped bend as a force that urges, against the surface to be cooled, an outside surface of the heat sink that is disposed opposite the fan.