BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present invention will become more fully understood from the detailed description given herein below for illustration only, and thus is not limitative of the present invention, and wherein:
FIG. 1A is an enlarged view of one side of an assembling member according to the present invention.
FIG. 1B is an enlarged view of another side of an assembling member according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an exploded schematic view of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is an assembled schematic view of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The assembling member disclosed in the present invention is mounted on a heatsink fan to fix the heatsink fan in a fixed frame of an electronic element. The above-mentioned electronic element includes, but not limited to, PC, Server, and the like. In the detailed description of the present invention below, the fixed frame of a server is taken as the most preferred embodiment in the present invention. However, the accompanying drawings are provided only for reference and demonstration, but not to limit the present invention.
FIG. 1A is an enlarged view of one side of an assembling member 100 according to the present invention. As shown in the FIG. 1A, the assembling member 100 comprises a jointing part 110, an operating part 120, and a plurality of fastening pins 130. The jointing part 110 has an appearance of a long plate-shaped structure made of plastic materials, and at least one flexible end 111 is disposed on two opposite long sides of the jointing part 110 respectively, for providing the jointing part 110 with a flexible deformation range. The operating part 120 is formed by extending and bending a short side of the jointing part 110, and a gap 121 is opened at the operating part 120 to provide a space for fingers to pass through and grasp. The plurality of fastening pins 130 is formed by extending the long side of the jointing part 110 towards the bending direction of the operating part 120, and a protruding shaft 131 is disposed at one end of the fastening pin 130. As for the fastening pins 130 disclosed in the present invention, four opposite fastening pins 130 are extended from two long sides of the jointing part 110. Those skilled in the art can also make modifications of extending a plurality of fastening pins 130 from the jointing part 110, which is not limited to this embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 1B and FIG. 2, the heatsink fan 200 is formed by disposing a fan blade 202 within a fan frame 201. The assembling member 100 disclosed in the present invention is disposed on two opposite sides of a heatsink fan 200 in pairs, so as to detachably dispose the heatsink fan 200 on a fixed frame 300. A display lamp socket 113 and a snapping slot 114 are disposed on one side of the jointing part 110 for the assembling member 100 corresponding to the heatsink fan 200. The display lamp socket 113 is used for accommodating a display lamp (not shown) of the heatsink fan 200, and the snapping slot 114 is used for snapping an electronic element (not shown). The protruding shafts 131 on one end of the plurality of fastening pins 130 formed by extending the jointing part 110 are used for being hooked at a set of assembly holes 210 on opposite sides of the fan frame 201, such that the assembling member 100 fixed in the heatsink fan 200 has a bonding strength. The fastening pins 130 are formed by extending the jointing part 110, such that they have the characteristic of flexibility, thus, the assembling member 100 is easily detached from the heatsink fan 200, and both the bonding strength of the assembling member 100 and the convenience for the user to detach the assembling member are considered. Moreover, the purpose for designing the fastening pins 130 lies in that, when the assembling member 100 is mounted on a heatsink fan 200 with a different size, a part of the errors in mounting size is tolerable. The protruding shaft 131 disposed on the fastening pins 130 is of a semicircular shape with an inclined surface, and when it is mounted in the assembly hole 210, some size errors are also tolerable.
The fixed frame 300 may be a fixed frame 300 of a server or a PC, but not limited to this. The two assembling members 100 disposed on the heatsink fan 200 in pairs have different sizes, such that the heatsink fan 200 having the pair of assembling members 100 only can be disposed in the fixed frame 300 in a fixed direction, thus avoiding the circumstance that the user places the heatsink fan 200 towards a wrong heat dissipation direction of the fan, and as a result, the heat dissipation effect cannot achieved for the heatsink fan 200.
As shown in FIG. 1A, FIG. 2, and FIG. 3, the heatsink fan 200 having the assembling members 100 is disposed within the fixed frame 300 in a fixed direction. The assembling member 100 has a guide slot 112 at the flexible end 111. When the jointing part 110 is pressed due to the size differences between the heatsink fan 200 and the fixed frame 300 resulted from different specifications or tolerances there-between, the guide slot 112 provides a flexible space for the jointing part 110, such that the jointing part 110 has a flexible deformation range, and the heatsink fan 200 can be mounted in the fixed frame 300 smoothly. The operating part 120 is provided with two symmetric grooves 140 on both side-cutting edges, and the grooves 140 contracts towards the direction of the jointing part 110 in shape to form a neck portion 150, such that the operating part 120 has desirable flexibility and deformation characteristics. An embedded block 122 is further disposed on the neck portion 150 of the operating part 120 corresponding to one side of the fixed frame 300, and is embedded with an embedded hole 310 corresponding to the fixed frame 300, such that the heatsink fan 200 is bonded on the fixed frame 300.
When the heatsink fan 200 is to be detached from the fixed frame 300, it only needs to pull the operating part 120 for the pair of the assembling members 100 disposed on the heatsink fan 200 towards upward, such that the flexible operating part 120 is flexibly deformed. As a result, the embedded block 122 of the neck portion 150 is disengaged from the embedded hole 310 of the fixed frame 300, thereby the heatsink fan 200 is taken out of the fixed frame 300.
The efficacy of the present invention lies in providing a mounting margin for the heatsink fan, preventing the user from disposing the heatsink fan in a wrong direction, and making the assembling member be easily detached.
The invention being thus described, it will be obvious that the same may be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the invention, and all such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims.
Patent Application
20080075589
