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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dennis K Buzzelli, Old Bethpage, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
361386 ; 361391 ; 165 801 ; 165185 ;
Abstract
A locking mechanism (100) for locking an electronic module (10) to a heat sink plate (12) is provided. Mechanism (100) features a slide block (16) slidably disposed in a slide track that is secured to plate (12). Block (16) is urged into heat transfer contacting engagement with module (10) by means of a shaft member (18) having a detent pin (34) that is biased by a resiient biasing member (44) outwardly into an opening (20) in the slide track wall (14) to positively lock block (16) against module (10) and requiring compression of member (44) through opening (20) from outside of the slide track wall to release block (16) from module (10).