Patent ID: 8556358

Claim:
A lightweight electronic rack system comprising a. an outer chassis, b. an inner chassis, c. one or more bottom vibration isolators; d. one or more top vibration isolators; e. wherein the inner chassis is installed inside the outer chassis and secured by the one or more bottom vibration isolators and the one or more top vibration isolators; f. wherein the one or more bottom vibration isolators are secured to an outer chassis bottom panel assembly via fasteners; g. wherein the one or more bottom vibration isolators are also secured to an inner chassis bottom panel a via fasteners; h. wherein the one or more top vibration isolators are secured to an outer chassis top panel assembly via fasteners; i. wherein the one or more top vibration isolators are also secured to an inner chassis top panel assembly fasteners; j. wherein the outer chassis and the inner chassis are comprised of subcomponents manufactured from carbon fiber-reinforced polymer; k. wherein the inner and outer chassis are assembled by mating components via an adhesive means; l. wherein structural reinforcing components of each component of the outer chassis and inner chassis strengthen the outer chassis and inner chassis to accommodate stress modes that the components experience and to provide mating surfaces to which the adhesive means can be applied to assemble the outer chassis and inner chassis; m. wherein the stress modes comprise elongational, compressional, flexural and torsional stresses of various frequencies and amplitudes; n. wherein the structural reinforcing components are comprised of hollow tubes manufactured from CFRP; and o. wherein the cross-sectional geometry of the hollow CFRP tubes is circular, square, triangular or rectangular.