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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:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2007
Applicant:
Ryan C. Tong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ryan C. Tong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20 (2006.01); F28D 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for mounting of a cooling device coupled to a circuit board include use of a clip that is rotated to mate with and engage the cooling device. Rotation of the clip occurs during installation of the cooling device and slides slots in the clip into interconnection with respective protrusions of the cooling device extending through the circuit board to where the clip is disposed. In an assembled configuration, the clip biases the cooling device to a processing unit coupled to the circuit board on an opposite side from the clip.