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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
May. 24, 2016
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
William George Mahoney, Suwanee, GA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the embodiments are directed to an optics module including a top-side inner wall and a bottom-side inner wall. The optics module may include a receiving element for receiving a small form factor pluggable (SFP) device; a heat sink including a first portion, the first portion including a top side and a bottom side, the bottom side of the heat sink in contact with the receiving element; and a first springing element residing between the first portion of the heat sink and the top-side inner wall of the optics module, the first springing element configured to bias the top side of the first portion of the heat sink onto the receiving element. In some embodiments, the optics module also includes a thermal interface material residing between the bottom-side inner wall of the optics module and the second portion of the heat sink, the thermal interface material configured to establish a thermal conduction path between the bottom-side inner wall of the optics module and the heat sink.