Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Foxconn Precision Components Co., Ltd.

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Wellint Xia

Hsieh Kun Lee

Gen-Cai Wang

Toly Lee

Gencai Wang

A heat sink clip () includes a main body (), a post (), a spring () and a cammed handle (). The main body includes a horizontal portion () and two locking arms (). A locking hole () is defined in an end of each locking arm for engaging with catches () of a socket (). The post has a pressing block () at a bottom portion and a cutout () at a top portion. The spring is placed around the post and rests on the pressing block The post extends through a through aperture () of the horizontal portion, and the cutout pivotally receives a cam () at one end of the handle. When the handle is pressed, the horizontal portion of the main body is raised by the decompressed spring, so that the locking arms tightly engage with the catches of the socket.

Heat sink clip with cammed handle

A heat sink clip () includes a main body, a post (), and a spring (). The main body includes a longitudinal portion (), first and second locking arms () extending downwardly from opposite ends of the longitudinal portion. The longitudinal portion defines a through aperture () in a middle thereof. Two hooks () are respectively formed at free ends of the first and second locking arms for engagement with catches () of a socket (). The post has a pressing portion at a bottom thereof for being fittingly received in a blind hole () of a heat sink (). The post extends through the through aperture of the longitudinal portion. The resilient element is disposed around the post below the longitudinal portion.

Heat sink clip with pressing post

A heat sink assembly includes a heat sink (), a processing unit (), a socket () and a clip (). The processing unit is mounted on the socket. Two catches () are provided at opposite sides of the socket. The clip includes a operating member () and a pressing member (). The operating member includes a main body () and a handle (). Two resilient portions () are formed from opposite sides of the main body. A first latching leg () with a fixing hole () extends downwardly from the main body. The pressing member includes two opposite pressing portions (), and opposite first and second beams (). A second latching leg () with a fixing hole () extends downwardly from the first beam. Two cutouts () are defined at a side of the pressing member, the resilient portions snappingly engaging with the pressing member in the cutouts.

Heat sink assembly including clip with pressing and operating members

A heat sink clip ( ) is shaped from a single piece of metal wire. Opposite ends of the metal wire are bent to form a generally twin strand structure that is the clip. The clip includes a central pressing portion ( ), two resilient connecting portions ( ) extending outwardly and upwardly from the pressing portion, and two arms ( ) depending from distal ends of the connecting portions. The pressing portion has four contact points at a bottom thereof, for pressing a heat sink ( ) onto a CPU ( ). A pair of hooks ( &prime;) is inwardly formed from distal ends of the arms respectively, for engaging with a pair of retaining ears ( ) at opposite sides of a CPU socket ( ). The contact points of the pressing portion enable the heat sink to be securely fastened to the CPU mounted on the CPU socket.

Heat sink clip with plurality of pressing portions

A heat sink assembly includes a heat sink ( ), a clip ( ), and a spring clamp ( ). The heat sink includes a base ( ), pin fins ( ), and slots ( ) defined between respective adjacent rows of the pins in perpendicular crisscross fashion. The clip made from a flexible metal wire includes a central body ( ) with a raised portion ( ), and two arms ( ) extending perpendicularly but in different directions from opposite ends of the body. A hook ( ) is formed at a free end of each arm. The spring clamp includes an elongate central pressing portion ( ). A longitudinal opening ( ) defined in the pressing portion engagingly receives the raised portion. Two pairs of elastically deformable wings ( ) extend from respective opposite sides of the pressing portion. The clamp is resiliently retained in corresponding slots of the heat sink, and thus secures the clip to the heat sink.

Heat sink assembly with spring clamp

A clip ( ) securing a heat sink ( ) to a heat-generating device ( ) for removing heat therefrom comprises a body ( ) and a pair of arms ( ) extending from the body. The body is positioned in a groove of the heat sink, for pressing the heat sink against a heat-generating device. The body integrally forms a loop ( ) which receives a fin ( ) of the heat sink, for enhancing engagement of the clip with the heat sink. Hooks ( ) at ends of the arms engage with holes defining in a substrate ( ) on which the heat-generating device is mounted, thereby securing the heat sink against the heat-generating device.

Clip for heat sink

A heat sink assembly includes a heat sink ( ), a clip ( ), and a fastener ( ). The heat sink has a base ( ) and a plurality of parallel fins ( ) extending therefrom. A pair of barbs ( ) is symmetrically formed on outmost sides of two adjacent central fins. The fastener includes a basal body ( ), a pair of side arms ( ) extending upwardly from the body, a pair of pressing plates ( ) extending horizontally outwardly from top ends of the side arms, a pair of locking arms ( ) depending from the pressing plates, and a pair of catches ( ) inwardly formed at distal ends of the locking arms for engaging with the barbs of the heat sink. A notch ( ) is defined in a bottom of the body, for facilitating the fastener abutting against a pressing section ( ) of the clip.

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