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US 2002/0172004 A1Published application
Foam systems for protecting disk drives from mechanical disturbances
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsThomas W. Ives, Donald P. Roehling
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Abstract
A disk drive array can be protected from mechanical disturbances by foam positioned between a disk drive/mounting cage assembly and an enclosure system. In some of the more preferred embodiments of this invention the individual disk drives will be rigidly mounted to their mounting cage.
Claims20
A disk drive enclosure system, comprising:
- an enclosure;
- a cage configured to mount a plurality of disk drives;
- and
- foam between the cage and the enclosure.
1 more element
A disk drive enclosure system, comprising:
- an enclosure;
- a cage configured to rigidly mount a plurality of disk drives to said cage;
- and
- foam between the cage and the enclosure.
1 more element
A RAID enclosure system, comprising:
- an enclosure;
- a cage having a RAID system rigidly mounted to said cage;
- and
- at least one layer of foam between the cage and the enclosure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.