Patent ID: 8701624

Claim:
A vibration damped enclosure, comprising side walls and a vibration damping plate structure extending across the enclosure and attached to internal surface portions of a first and a second side wall, wherein the vibration damping plate structure ( 2 ) comprises a non-rigid layer ( 12 ) sandwiched between two rigid layers ( 13 , 14 ), and wherein each rigid layer between said first and second side walls ( 5 , 6 ; 22 , 23 ) comprises at least one cut ( 15 , 16 ) through the rigid layer ( 13 , 14 ) which makes the extension of each rigid layer between the first and second sidewalls ( 5 , 6 ) discontinuous, wherein the at least one cut ( 15 , 16 ) extends completely through an adjacent non-rigid layer ( 12 ).