Temperature sensor isolation in smart-home devices
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsMichael Mitchell, Arun Raghupathy, William Dong, Adrian Shanov
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Abstract
A smart-home device may include a housing, a printed circuit board (PCB) inside the housing, an environmental sensor mounted to the PCB inside the housing, and a gasket that encloses the environmental sensor inside the housing to isolate the environmental sensor from an atmosphere inside of the housing while allowing an atmosphere outside of the housing to enter the gasket such that the environmental sensor can measure an aspect of the atmosphere outside of the housing.
Claims20
A smart-home device comprising:
- a housing;
- a printed circuit board (PCB) inside the housing;
- an environmental sensor mounted to the PCB inside the housing;
- and
- a gasket that encloses the environmental sensor inside the housing to isolate the environmental sensor from an atmosphere inside of the housing while allowing an atmosphere outside of the housing to enter the gasket such that the environmental sensor can measure an aspect of the atmosphere outside of the housing.
A method of isolating environmental sensors from internal atmospheres of smart-home devices, the method comprising:
- mounting an environmental sensor to a printed circuit board (PCB);
- mounting the PCB inside a housing of a smart-home device;
- and
- enclosing the environmental sensor inside a gasket to isolate the environmental sensor from an atmosphere inside of the housing while allowing an atmosphere outside of the housing to enter the gasket such that the environmental sensor can measure an aspect of the atmosphere outside of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.