Patent ID: 6163454
Filing Date: 2000-12-19
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
A storage enclosure for electrical/electronic components, comprising:an enclosure configured to house an electrical/electronic component;an EMI barrier wall having air flow apertures sized sufficiently small to prevent passage of undesirable relatively high frequency EMI/RFI emissions, the barrier wall supported internally of the enclosure and configured to subdivide the enclosure into a component enclosure and a cooling fan module enclosure;air flow inlet apertures provided in the component enclosure to pass cooling air into the component enclosure and cool components contained therein;exhaust air flow apertures sized larger than the EMI barrier apertures and the air flow inlet apertures, and provided in the cooling fan module enclosure to pass cooling air from the cooling fan module enclosure and out of the storage enclosure;wherein the component enclosure is configured to contain relatively high frequency EMI/RFI emissions that emanate from components contained therein, and the cooling fan module enclosure is configured to contain relatively low frequency EMI/RFI emissions that emanate from a cooling fan module contained therein while providing for a relatively large passage of cooling air from the storage enclosure.