Air director
AssigneeChenbro Micom Co., Ltd.
InventorHsin-Hung Chen
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Abstract
An air director includes a fan bracket, which has a circular center opening, a fan mounting structure provided at the front side to secure a fan and to have a fan blade of the fan in alignment with the circular center opening, a plurality of clamping arms extended from the rear side for fastening to respective side arms at a motherboard at two sides relative to insertion slots on the motherboard, and protruding blocks and eye lugs disposed above the protruding blocks, and an air duct, which has a bottom open side attached to the motherboard around the insertion slots, front hooks and top hooks respectively hooked on the protruding blocks and the eye lugs of the fan bracket.
Claims7
An air director installed in a motherboard around insertion slots on said motherboard to support a fan having a housing and a fan blade in said housing for causing currents of air to carry heat away from memory modules in said insertion slots, the air director comprising:
- a fan bracket, said fan bracket comprising a circular center opening, a fan mounting structure provided at a front side thereof around said circular center opening for securing said housing of said fan to hold said fan blade in alignment with said circular center opening, a plurality of clamping arms extended from a rear side thereof for fastening to respective side arms at said motherboard at two sides relative to said insertion slots to secure said fan bracket to said motherboard, a plurality of protruding blocks respectively spaced above said clamping arms, and a plurality of eye lugs disposed above said protruding blocks;
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- an air duct connected to said fan bracket, said air duct comprising a bottom open side attached to said motherboard around said insertion slots, a plurality of first hooks respectively hooked on said protruding blocks of said fan bracket, and a plurality of second hooks respectively hooked on said eye lugs of said fan bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.