Arris Enterprises LLC

General Instrument Corporation

John Hausman

Chien-Cheng Huang

Paul Joseph Harley

Xue-Hong Wu

Lars Kristoffer Roberg

William J Storti

Paul Ocepek

Paul Douglas Baker

Dwight T Sakuma

Bryan K Zublin

Justin Diep

Richard Patrick Rementilla

Hai Lin

Greg McDonald

Wireless electronic devices include one or more wireless antennas to provide for wireless communications. The antenna cables are routed internally within the device and typically noise from components located on a circuit board may couple to the antenna cables and cause a degradation in wireless performance, impact antenna sensitivity and cause packet loss. Utilizing raised pathways in a heat sink utilized for thermal transfer of heat to a housing enables tunnels to be formed between the housing and the heat sink. Routing the antenna cables through the tunnels improves noise isolation for the antenna cables while still maintaining the heat transfer. The raised pathways are configured to not interfere with components on the circuit board or components included in the housing. The wireless antennas may be mounted within the housing instead of on the board so no portion of the antenna cables are located on the circuit board.

Raised pathway heat sink

Power module

A power module may be attached to and detached from a network extender. The power module may include one or more power connectors that are specific to one or more countries/regions. The power module may include one or more other interfaces (e.g., Ethernet port, etc.). The power module may include a power connector and a male local area network connector on a first surface. The power module may include a local area network port on a second surface, wherein the local area network port is conductively connected to the male local area network connector via a local area network port access.

Wall-mounted network extender and adapter

Enclosure for a network extender

Faceplate

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

John Hausman