Patent ID: 8784167

Claim:
A fan assembly, comprising: a fan arranged to generate an air stream suitable for cooling electronic circuitry; and a fan mount having: (i) a set of chassis interface portions having; a set of openings disposed at a bottom-front of the fan mount for receiving a set of flanges extending from a chassis, and a set of snap-in couplings locking the fan mount in a position relative to a base of the chassis, and (ii) an attachment portion disposed proximate to a rear of the fan mount and arranged to hold the fan in a location behind the set of chassis interface portions, wherein the set of chassis interface portions forms the only structure for rigidly attaching the fan mount to the chassis and wherein the set of flanges engage the set of chassis interface portions to hold the fan assembly in a suspended arrangement above the base of the chassis with no contact between the fan assembly and the base of the chassis.