Fan cover

Abstract

A fan cover integrated with a heat dissipating fan having a power line and a power line connector is disclosed. The fan cover includes a body combined with and covered on a side of the heat dissipating fan, and a fixing mount disposed on an outside region of the body. The fixing mount has a clip unit for clipping to the power line connector of the heat dissipating fan, allowing the power line connector to be detachably attached to the fixing mount. Therefore, the heat dissipating fan is detachable form the frame of the server in single step and overcome the drawbacks of the prior art.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to fan cover, and more particularly, to a fan cover which can be detachably attached with a power line connector of a heat dissipating fan.[0003]2. Description of Related Arts[0004]Conventionally, a fan module for heat dissipating in a 1U server has two or three fans, whereas the whole fan module must be detached from the 1U server if one of these fans is malfunctioned, thereby the server must be shut off for taking off the fan module.[0005]Heat dissipating fans can be respectively electrically connected to and detached from a server in recent years. As shown in FIG. 1, a server (not shown) has a fan frame 1 and a patch panel 7 having a plurality of electrical slots 70. The fan frame 1 includes a plurality of accommodation units 10 for a plurality of fans 6 to be accommodated in respectively. The electrical slots 70 are used for electrically connecting to connectors 60 of the fans 6.[0006]H...

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Benefits of technology

[0010]It is another objective of the present invention to provide a fan cover for fixing a power line of the heat dissipating fan such that disorder power line may be avoided.

[0012]Compared with the prior art, the fan cover of the present invention has a fixing mount for clipping to the power line connector of the heat dissipating fan, thereby the heat dissipating fan is detachable form the frame of the server in single step. Accordingly, complexity and inconvenience of attaching the heat dissipating fan to the 1U server in the prior art may be improved.

[0014]Moreover, two opposed sides of the fixing mount respectively has the clip unit, such that the power line of the heat dissipating fan can be fixed in the fixing mount while the power line connector is clipped to a side of the clip unit. Therefore, short circuit caused by the knotted power line and reduction of heat dissipating efficiency caused by the disorder power line can be avoided. Furthermore, the fan cover can be applied elastically to heat dissipating fans with different power line as the clip units are set on both sides of the fixing mount.

[0015]As a result, the fan cover of the present invention can overcome the drawbacks of the prior art, such that it has a high use value in industry.

Problems solved by technology

Moreover, as the space of the 1U server is becoming smaller and smaller, it is difficult for a user to perform the connection of the fans 6.

Furthermore, a power line of any one of the fans 6 is held between the fan frame 1 and the patch panel 7 without proper arrangement, thereby knotted or disorder power line may block the airflow to reduce the heat dissipating efficiency, and short circuit may also be produced by the knotted power line.

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