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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Jean Marie Doglio, Round Rock, TX (US);
Evangelos Konstantinos Koutsavdis, Leander, TX (US);
Chris E. Peterson, Austin, TX (US);
Paul Allen Waters, Austin, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for protecting a hard disc drive (HDD) from acoustic energy in a chassis comprises a set of foam strips formed from acoustically absorptive material. Each foam strip has a thickness such that, when the HDD is installed in a chassis, the acoustically absorptive material is in a substantially uncompressed state. Foam strips are separated by an airflow path width, wherein two foam strips, a first surface of an HDD and a second surface form an airflow path. The second surface may be a surface of an adjacent HDD or a wall of the chassis. Each foam strip has a width and length configured for absorbing acoustic energy that would otherwise propagate through the airflow path.