Google Inc.

DuanYing Lin

Vivian W Tang

Yau-Shing Lee

Frédéric Heckmann

Yu-Ming Chen

Li Ya Wang

Mihika Hemmady

Clare Zhang

This document describes techniques and systems that enable a range extender device. The techniques and systems include a user device that includes a housing with an audio sensor, a heat sink assembly, a circuit board assembly, and a speaker assembly positioned within the housing. The housing includes a top housing member connected to a bottom housing member. The top housing member includes a concave-down top-end portion connected to a generally-cylindrical vertical wall via rounded corners. The heat sink assembly includes a heat sink and one or more antennas positioned proximate to an inner surface of the vertical wall. The circuit board assembly is positioned within the housing and proximate to the heat sink assembly, and the speaker assembly is positioned within the housing and connected to the circuit board assembly. Also, a light ring assembly is connected to a bottom exterior surface of the bottom housing member.

Range extender device

The present disclosure describes an annular light-guide integrated into a system, including a mesh network device. The system includes a lighting manager application that, when executed by a processor, causes the system to determine an operational status and select, based on the determined operational status, a color. The lighting manager application then causes the system to activate one or more light-emitting components to radiate light corresponding to the selected color and transmit, through an annular light-guide, the radiated light to provide an exterior glow under a bottom housing of the system.

Annular light-guide integrated into a mesh network device

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Taipei, Taiwan

DuanYing Lin