Protective cover

Abstract

A protective cover is used for protecting thermal conducting mediums on two heat sinks from being damaged simultaneously. The protective cover includes a plate body and two holding portions. The plate body has two opposite plate surfaces respectively covering the sides of the two heat sinks coated with a thermal conducting medium. The two holding portions are formed on the periphery of the two plate surfaces and surround the two plate surfaces to form an accommodation space respectively. The holding portions are engaged with the two heat sinks and cover the thermal conducting mediums in the accommodation space respectively.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(a) on Patent Application No(s). 095220595 filed in Taiwan, R.O.C. on Nov. 22, 2006, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of Invention[0003]The present invention relates to a protective cover, and more particularly to a protective cover capable of simultaneously accommodating two heat sinks and the thermal conducting mediums thereon.[0004]2. Related Art[0005]With the rapid development of computer science and technology, the operating speed of electronic components is gradually increased, and the integrated circuits (IC) become highly integrated, so that a large amount of heat is generated during the operation of the electronic components. If the heat is not dissipated in time, the operation performance of computer devices will be seriously influenced.[0006]In order to reduce the working temperature of...

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Benefits of technology

[0014]The advantage of the present invention lies in that, the two heat sinks coated with the thermal conducting mediums are respectively fixed on the plate body, so that the thermal conducting mediums may be completely encapsulated in the accommodation space of the two opposite plate surfaces, thereby ensuring the integrity and the property of the thermal conductivity of the thermal conducting mediums. Meanwhile, as two heat sinks can be mounted on a single protective cover simultaneously, thus greatly saving the packaging materials used in transportation and reducing the manufacturing cost.

Problems solved by technology

However, during the transportation of the heat sinks, the thermal conducting medium is easily contaminated by the ambient environment or distorted by scratching or extrusion, resulting in the increase of the coating area of the thermal conducting medium and even the peeling off of the thermal conducting medium.

Thus, when the manufacturers fabricate and deliver a large quantity of the heat sinks, more protective covers are required, which is inevitably a heavy burden of cost to the heat sink manufacturers.

Furthermore, when the heat sinks are delivered to the destination, and go through the packaging step, a large number of protective covers must be detached from the heat sinks.

If the plastic protective covers are regarded as wastes and discarded, the ecological environment will be negatively impacted after a long time period.

If the protective covers are recycled, the recycling cost is also an additional cost to the manufacturers.

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