Plume Design, Inc.

William Mcfarland

Kiran Kumar Edara

Qinghai Gao

Miroslav Samardzija

Adam R Hotchkiss

Liem Hieu Dinh Vo

Manikanden Balakrishnan

Paul White

Yoseph Malkin

Balaji Rengarajan

Ming-Tsung Su

Brian Nam

Richard Chang

Evan Jeng

Aman Singla

Jian Lu

Hong Fan

Sameer Vaidya

Duc Minh Nguyen

Murugesan Guruswamy

Christina Xu

Irene Yang

Isaac Wang

Kunal Goswami

Stan Su

Soner Ozgur

Nora Yan

Guan-Heng Chen

Shu-Chun Shen

Yossi Malkin

Mojmir Tuljak

Michal Kazior

Janusz Dziedzic

Jeffrey Chaifai Liew

Compact electronic devices, such as Access Points (APs), having airflow and cooling features are provided. According to one implementation, a compact electronic device includes an outer plastic housing and an inner casing arranged inside the outer plastic housing. The inner casing has a high-voltage section configured to support one or more high-voltage electrical components and a low-voltage section configured to support one or more low-voltage electrical components. The compact electronic device further includes a single fan that is configured to draw air from outside the outer plastic housing, move the air through the high-voltage and low-voltage sections, and exhaust the air through one or more exhaust vents in the outer plastic housing. Also, the inner casing is configured to isolate the one or more high-voltage electrical components from metal portions of the low-voltage section by at least a certain separation to meet clearance and creepage safety standards.

Controlling airflow through a compact electronic device

A wireless device with a slot antenna includes one or more heatsinks; one or more circuit boards with a plurality of components thereon; a housing enclosing the one or more heatsinks and the one or more circuit boards; and a slot antenna including a slot formed in or between the one or more heatsinks and an antenna feed, wherein the slot is further utilized for ventilation within the housing. The slot antenna can further include a conductive sheet placed over an end of the slot for tuning; and a dielectric material disposed in and over some portion of length of the slot, wherein the portion of the length is selected to fine tune a frequency of resonance of the slot antenna, wherein one or more components of the plurality of components are used to electrically load the slot thereby mechanically shortening a resonant length L of the slot.

Slot antenna in compact wireless device

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Portola Valley, CA, United States of America

William Mcfarland