Patent ID: 8081470
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A mechanism to dissipate heat from an optical transceiver set in a cage to a heat sink assembled with said cage such that a surface of said optical transceiver is adhered to a surface of said heat sink, said mechanism comprising: a slit formed in said cage, said slit providing a pair of elastic tabs each formed within said slit diagonally, and a guide formed in said heat sink, said guide being configured to slip under one of said elastic tabs as said optical transceiver is inserted into said cage to adhere said surface of said heat sink to said optical transceiver and to run on said another of said elastic tabs as said optical transceiver is extracted from said cage to make said heat sink apart from said optical transceiver, wherein said surface of said optical transceiver is a slant surface and said surface of said heat sink is a slant surface extending substantially in parallel to said slant surface of said optical transceiver, and wherein said slant surface of said heat sink adheres to said slant surface of said optical transceiver when said optical transceiver is inserted in said cage.