Lucent Technologies Inc.

Eric K McDonald

An Ba Nguyen

Steve P Vargo

Richard Barnett

Hongyu Jia

Richard John Yeager

Steven John Vargo

Kevin Gerard Shaw

Gary M Edmonds

Edward Yanowski

William J Edwards

Fastener with integral spring clip

A fastener for removably mounting a housing to a shelf includes a base having an upper surface and a lower surface adapted for connection to a bottom panel of the housing at an edge portion of the housing. The base includes a front edge and a portion extending from the front edge which is turned under the base and is disposed spaced apart from the base and adjacent to a lower surface of the base to form a spring clip. The clip engages an edge portion of the shelf between the lower surface of the base and the portion extending from the base front edge.

Spring clips with nesting end portions are disclosed for use in securing heat generating electrical devices to a support surface, such as a heat sink. The nesting end portions of the clips depend downwardly below the main body portion to prevent contact with edges of electrical devices of varying height and width. Thickness and temper of the clips provide some flexibility so there is less variability in clamping force applied to the clamped devices by the clip in response to tightening of the attachment means and torquing of the fastening means becomes less critical.

Nesting clamps for electrical components

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Rowlett, TX, United States of America

Eric K McDonald