Patent ID: 8116076

Claim:
An enclosure for a hard disk drive, comprising: a front portion made of one or more polymers; said front portion including five sides and an open end, wherein a front wall of said front portion includes ventilation structures, each of said ventilation structures having a body that extends into the interior of said front portion; a body portion; said body portion made of a polymer and said body portion having five sides extending from an open side of said body portion, and including an interior space accessible from said open side being for storage of a hard disk drive; said body portion configured such that a first pair of opposite sides in said body portion include a set of horizontal pre-stressed polymer springs formed integrally into the first pair of opposite sides and extending outward from said body portion, and a set of pre-stressed vertical polymer compression members extending upward from a second pair of opposite sides, said vertical compression members formed integrally into the second pair of opposite sides providing compression in a direction perpendicular to said horizontal pre-stressed polymer springs, when said pre-stressed vertical polymer compression members contact a horizontal structure.