Patents by Inventor My-Hanh Nguyen

My-Hanh Nguyen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Heat sink support
    Patent number: 5748446
    Abstract: A heat sink support device including a base and a top member is provided to support a finned heat sink attached to a processor card assembly of a computer system. The base member includes a number of dowels disposed on a bottom surface for securing the base member to a motherboard. The base member also includes a number of necked pins disposed on a top surface, and the top member includes a number of cutouts disposed on an edge for mating with the necked pins, to render a set of the fins captive, to prevent the heat sink from moving beyond the tolerance allowed between the fins and the base and top members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rick Feightner, My-Hanh Nguyen