Patent ID: 6175496
Filing Date: 2001-01-16
Classification: G06F,H05K

Abstract:
A heat-dissipating device adapted for dissipating heat inside an equipment housing, the equipment housing including a housing part having upright first and second side walls and a bottom wall interconnecting bottom edges of the first and second side walls, the first and second side walls extending transverse to each other such that the first and second side walls and the bottom wall cooperate to form a corner portion of the housing part, the first side wall being formed with a vent hole adjacent to the second side wall, said heat-dissipating device comprising:a remote heat-dissipating unit adapted to be disposed in the equipment housing and having a heat transfer plate, a heat exchanger pipe connected to said heat transfer plate, and a heat sink coupled to said heat exchanger pipe; anda fan unit adapted to be disposed in the corner portion of the housing part, said fan unit includinga fan housing having a fan disposed therein,a fastening seat member adapted to be fastened removably on the first side wall and the bottom wall of the housing part and retaining said fan housing in the housing part adjacent to the vent hole in the first side wall, anda supporting member having an anchoring frame part connected to said fan housing, a reinforcing frame part extending from said anchoring frame part and adapted to be disposed adjacent to the second side wall, and a fastening frame part extending transversely from said reinforcing frame part and spaced apart from said fan housing to form a sink mounting space therebetween, said heat sink being disposed in said sink mounting space and being fastened removably to said fastening frame part;whereby, said fan unit further serves to reinforce the corner portion of the housing part of the equipment housing.