Google Inc.

Sandisk Technologies Inc.

Jung Geun Tak

Maj Isabelle Olsson

Livius Dumitru Chebeleu

Kristen Mangum

Katherine Morgenroth

Carl Alexander Cepress

Anna Knutson

Amy Martin

Nicholas Matarese

David Chenell

Justin Richard Wodrich

Michael Jon Sundermeyer

Micah Thomas Collins

Timothy Michael Vanderet

Daniel David Sachs

Laurie Kwan

Willard McClellan

Kyle Nathen Swen

Willard Mcclellan

Kyle N Swen

Thomas Franz Enders

Jason Stanley Pi

Grace Hina Lee

Yaron Bar

Evan Silverman

Kirk Rodgers

Ella Taran Katz

Speaker device with lights

A compact electronic device has a touch sensor and/or a microphone that are concealed within a housing at least partially wrapped by an acoustically porous cover. In some implementations, the touch sensor includes a sensing portion and a contact portion extending from the sensing portion. While the sensing portion is placed in proximity to an interior surface of the housing to detect a touch on the housing, the contact portion is bent to electrically couple the sensing portion to a circuit board via two distinct electrical paths. In some implementations, an exterior surface of the housing includes a sealing area surrounding an aperture on the housing, and the acoustically porous cover is affixed to the sealing area via an adhesive. The adhesive covers the sealing area and permeates a thickness of the acoustically porous cover, thereby enabling formation of a controlled sound path to access the microphone via the aperture.

Compact home assistant having a controlled sound path

Various arrangements of electronic devices, such as assistant devices, are detailed herein. Such a device can include a housing and a microphone. A microphone aperture can be defined by the housing that directs sound from outside the housing to the microphone. A cover, which can be fabric, can be attached with the outside of the housing. An adhesive ring on the housing around the microphone aperture can be used to attach the cover to the housing.

Compact home assistant device

Speaker device

A voice-activated electronic device including a first portion with a first internal surface having a first attachment structure, and a second portion with a second internal surface having a second attachment structure. The first and second internal surfaces have compatible shapes that permit the first and second portions to be moved from a separated position to a joined position, where when the first portion and the second portion are in the joined position the first and second internal surfaces form a nested arrangement. The first and second attachment structures form a secure but separable connection to one another when the first and second portions are in the joined position. The first and second portions are configured to be joined securely and separated through manual human manipulation of one or both of the first portion and the second portion to move the first and second portions between separated and joined positions.

Voice-activated electronic device assembly with separable base

Panel of a voice interface device

Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement touch sensors and electronic devices including touch sensors. In some implementations, the touch sensor includes a sensing portion and a contact portion extending from the sensing portion. While the sensing portion is configured to be placed in proximity to an interior surface of a housing of an electronic device to detect a touch on the housing, the contact portion is bent to electrically couple the sensing portion to a circuit board via two distinct electrical paths.

Compact home assistant having touch sensitive housing

Gaming controller

Voice interface device

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Millbrae, CA, United States of America

Jung Geun Tak