Patent ID: 8701821

Claim:
A housing for abating noise generated from within the housing, the housing comprising: a housing structure defining an internal chamber, an air ingress opening, and an air egress opening, the housing structure configured to cooperate with electronic equipment disposed therein to define an intake plenum and an exhaust plenum within the internal chamber; and the air ingress opening and the air egress opening including a baffle structure comprising a plurality of baffles, the baffles comprising a resilient material defining a plurality of openings in fluid communication with the internal chamber and a space outside the housing structure, at least one of the plurality of baffles having a substantially flat rectangular profile in a relaxed state and mounted in the housing in a deformed state having a curved profile; wherein air outside the housing structure passes sequentially through the air ingress opening into the intake plenum, through the electronic equipment, into the exhaust plenum, and exits the housing structure through the egress opening in the housing structure; wherein the at least one of the plurality of baffles having a substantially flat rectangular profile in a relaxed state is comprised of multiple layers of noise-abating material with at least one outer layer having at least one gap to facilitate deformation of the at least one of the plurality of baffles for mounting in the housing.