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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:
Jul. 25, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1994
Howard N Wieland, Jr, Holliston, MA (US);
Wakefield Engineering, Inc., Wakefield, MA (US);
Abstract
A spring clip for clamping a heat sink module which has a plurality of upwardly extending cooling elements to an electronic module. The spring clip includes a horizontal grid like foot portion which engages the upper surface of the heat sink module a vertical leg portion which extends along the side of the heat sink module and the electronic module and a bendable and resilient connecting portion which extends from the inner end of the foot portion to the upper end of the leg portion. The electronic module has a first latching element at its side surface for engaging a complementary second latching element which forms part of the vertical leg portion of the spring clip. The spring clip is rendered from a non-clamping position in which the latching element of the clip is above the latching element of the electronic module to a clamping position by bending the connecting portion downwardly from its inner end to lower the vertical leg portion so that the first and second latching elements are engaged.