Patent ID: 8256500

Claim:
A heat dissipation device, comprising: a heat sink; a fan; and a plurality of brackets mounting the fan on the heat sink, each of the brackets comprising two pairs of spaced, opposite flexible buckles extending from a top thereof toward the fan; wherein a bottom of each of the brackets is fixed on a bottom of the heat sink; wherein each of the brackets further comprises a beam and two connecting shafts downwardly extending from two ends of the beam, and the buckles extend from the two ends of the beam toward the fan; wherein each of the buckles further comprises a flexible extending arm extending from the beam and a retaining portion extending from a distal end of the extending arm, the retaining portions in each pair of the buckles facing toward each other; and wherein the fan comprises an upper flange far from the brackets and a lower flange near the brackets, the lower flange defining a plurality of slots in top and bottom thereof, the lower flange being buckled between each pair of the buckles, the retaining portions of each pair of the buckles being respectively received into the slots in the top and bottom of the lower flange.