FIXING DEVICE FOR FAN

• US 20130026332A1
• Filed: 08/04/2011
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LIU, LEI
• Application Number:
  US13/197,773
• Publication Number:
  US 20130026332A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/674
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/183 Internal mounting support structures, e.g. for printed circuit boards, internal connecting means for buses G06F13/409
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20172 Fan mounting or fan specifications

Abstract

A device for fixing one or more fans includes a rack and a board pivotably mounted to the rack. The rack defines one or more vents. A number of protrusions protrude from the rack around the vent to locate one end of each fan; a pivoting blocking plate comes down onto the other end of the fan to hold it firmly in place.

Claims

1. A fixing device for fixing a fan member with two opposite end boards, the fixing device comprising:

a rack defining a vent, a plurality of protrusions protrudes from the rack around the vent to engage in one of the end boards of the fan; and

a board pivotably mounted to the rack with a first side of the board, a blocking plate extending from a second side of the board opposite to the first side to abut the other end board of the fan.

2. The fixing device of claim 1, wherein two pins extend away from each other from opposite ends of the first side, two fixing pieces perpendicularly extend from opposite ends of the rack, each fixing piece defines a fixing hole to pivotably engage with one of the pins.

3. The fixing device of claim 2, wherein a protrusion extends from an inner surface of each fixing piece toward the other fixing piece, the protrusion defines a fixing hole therein.

4. The fixing device of claim 1, wherein two plates extend from the rack at opposite sides of the vent to sandwich the fan.