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US 7,597,571 B2Granted
Fan and plug thereof
AssigneeDelta Electronics, Inc.
InventorsTien-Min Chen, Te-Tsai Chuang
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AssigneeDelta Electronics, Inc.
InventorsTien-Min Chen, Te-Tsai Chuang
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The present invention provides a fan having a frame and a plug. The frame includes an accommodating portion and at least two fixed holes. Each of the fixed holes is disposed on the two sides of the accommodating portion. The plug has a terminal seat with at least two linking portions and a bipolar knife-shaped terminal between an top seat and a bottom seat of the terminal seat, and the plug so that the plug is assembled with the fixed holes of the frame via the linking portions of the plug and is accommodated within the accommodating portion of the frame.
A plug, connected to a frame, the plug comprising:
A fan, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Composed of different pieces: assembled by screw or screws
Flexible or turnable line connectors , i.e. the rotation angle being limited: flexible line connectors without frictional contact members
Electrically-conductive connections
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This Non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(a) on Patent Application No(s). 096113435, filed in Taiwan, Republic of China on Apr. 17, 2007, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a fan and a plug, and more particularly to a fan with a plug for quickly connecting to an external system and avoiding wire interference.
The present invention can be more fully understood by reading the subsequent detailed description and examples with references made to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a conventional fan;
FIG. 2A is a schematic illustration of a fan of the present invention;
The following description is of the best-contemplated mode of carrying out the present invention. This description is made for the purpose of illustrating the general principles of the present invention and should not be taken in a limiting sense. The scope of the present invention is best determined by reference to the appended claims.
Referring FIGS. 2A and 2B, a fan 2 of an embodiment of the present invention includes a frame 21 and a plug 22. The fan 2 is an axial fan, for example. The frame 21 includes an accommodating portion 211 and two fixed holes 212. Each of the fixed holes 212 is disposed on each of the two sides of the accommodating portion 211, respectively. In this embodiment, the fixed holes 212 are disposed on two opposite sides of the accommodating portion 211, but the position is not limited to the disclosed embodiments.
The plug 22 includes a terminal seat 221 with at least two linking portions 222, a top seat 221a and a bottom seat 221b, and a bipolar knife-shaped terminal 223. Each of the linking portions 222 is disposed on each of the two sides of the terminal seat 221 and connected to each of the fixed holes 212 of the fan 21. Thus, the terminal seat 221 is disposed in the accommodating portion 211. The bipolar knife-shaped terminal 223 is disposed between the top seat 221a and the bottom seat 221b. The diameter of each fixed hole 212 is slightly larger than or equals to the diameter of each linking portion 222 so as to provide smooth assembly when assembling the linking portions 222 to the fixed holes 212.