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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2017
Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc., Lancaster, PA (US);
Matt D. Flannery, Stevens, PA (US);
James E. Schmidt, Morgantown, PA (US);
Jens E. Weyant, Hershey, PA (US);
Scott D. Garner, Lititz, PA (US);
Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc., Lancaster, PA (US);
Abstract
A card retainer device for securing a card module in a channel of a chassis. The card retainer device includes wedge members which have main portions with integrated brackets integrally attached to the main portions, the integrated brackets form first L-shaped brackets which engage walls of the chassis, surfaces of the card module or a combination thereof. The L-shaped brackets provide bearing surfaces which reduces binding and wear when the card retainer device secures the card module in the channel of a chassis and enhances the conductance of heat through the card retainer device. The wedge members provide heat transfer paths between the card module and the chassis. Mating surfaces of mating wedge member interfaces have compound angles that produces an applied force orthogonal to a flange of the conduction card that is greater than the force applied parallel to the flange of the conduction card.