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US 8,077,465 B2Granted
Heat sink assembly with fixing member
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsYao-Ting Chang, Meng-Hsien Lin, Yu-Chia Lai
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Abstract
A heat sink includes a cooling member to dissipate heat, and a fixing member for mounting fasteners. The cooling member includes a base and a number of fins extending from the base. The cooling member and the fixing member are independently formed, and the fixing member is fixed to a bottom of the base of the cooling member via fixing means.
Claims3
A heat sink assembly, comprising:
- a cooling member to dissipate heat, wherein the cooling member comprises a base and a plurality of fins extending from the base;
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- a fixing member for mounting fasteners;
- wherein the cooling member and the fixing member are independently formed, the fixing member is fixed to a bottom of the base of the cooling member via fixing means, the fixing member comprises two separate fixing pieces, each of the fixing pieces comprises a mounting portion and two fastener mounts respectively extending from opposite ends of the mounting portion, the mounting portion is fixed to the bottom of the base of the cooling member, each of the fastener mounts defines a mounting hole to receive one of the fasteners, two grooves are defined in the bottom of the base of the cooling member, the mounting portions of the fixing pieces are respectively received in the grooves, and the mounting portion of each of the fixing pieces is located at a lower level than the corresponding fastener mounts, in order to match the corresponding groove of the base.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.