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US 7643292
Adjustable air director
Current assignee: Chenbro Micom Co Ltd
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Patent Overview — US7643292B1
Title: Adjustable air director
Patent number: US7643292B1
Application number: US12/318,206
Inventor: Chun-Yu Chen
Assignee: Chenbro Micom Co., Ltd. (original and current assignee as listed)
Filing date / Priority date: 2008-12-23
Publication (grant) date: 2010-01-05
Anticipated expiration: 2028-12-23
Legal status (as listed): Expired – Fee Related
Classification: G06F1/20 (Cooling means), within G06F1/16 (Constructional details or arrangements)
Purpose: The patent describes an air director for a computer host that guides forced air over memory modules in insertion slots and cooler modules on CPUs mounted on a motherboard, carrying waste heat out of the host. The stated problem is that a fixed-size air director may be too large for a densely arranged smaller motherboard (lowering heat-dissipation efficiency) or may fail to cover the CPU and slots on a larger motherboard (installation failure).
Plain-language scope: An adjustable air director has two shells: a main air duct shell and a supplementary air duct shell attached to one lateral side. The main shell has sliding tracks on its top side; the supplementary shell has sliding coupling devices coupled to those tracks, so the transverse width can be adjusted to fit the CPU and slot arrangement. A springy strip on the main shell's top wall, with a press rod and raised portions, engages locating holes on the supplementary shell to lock the adjusted position. A wind guide is adjustably mounted inside to separate two air flows—one over the CPU cooler modules and one over the memory modules. A breakable stretcher with breaking lines attaches at the front end between the two shells to resist vibration and can be broken to the desired length. A mounting hook (13) secures the assembly to an angled partition wall of the host.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US7643292](/patent/US7643292)/en
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