Patent ID: 7864526

Claim:
A heat dissipation device adapted for cooling an electronic device mounted on a printed circuited board, comprising: a heat sink adapted for thermally contacting the electronic device; a fan comprising a first flange away from the heat sink and a second flange near the heat sink, a plurality of through holes being defined in corners of the second flange, respectively; a fixing device fixing the fan on a side of the heat sink and comprising two fixing brackets secured to the heat sink and a plurality of resilient connecting devices; and a plurality of fasteners attached on a bottom of the heat sink and adapted for fastening the heat sink on the printed circuited board; wherein each of the connecting devices comprises: a head, a retaining portion, and a baffle portion located between the head and the retaining portion, a first slot being defined between the head and the baffle portion whereby a first neck is formed between the head and the baffle portion, and a second slot being defined between the retaining portion and the baffle portion whereby a second neck is formed between the retaining portion and the baffle portion, each of the two fixing brackets having two positioning portions extending from top and bottom ends of a side thereof, respectively, a plurality of screws extending through the through holes in a top of the second flange of the fan and engaging with the positioning portions at the top ends of the fixing brackets, a bottom of the second flange of the fan and the positioning portions at the bottom ends of the fixing brackets being sandwiched between the heads and the retaining portions of the connecting devices, the baffle portions of the connecting devices being sandwiched between the second flange of the fan and the fixing brackets, the positioning portions at the bottom of the fixing brackets each defining a cutout at a lateral side thereof, the first necks being crowded into the cutouts of the bottom positioning portions, and the second necks being inserted in the through holes in the bottom of the second flange of the fan.