Patent ID: 7438562

Claim:
A Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) flash-memory device comprising: a sub-assembly including: a connector substrate having a front portion and a rear portion, a bottom wall that extends under the front portion and part of the rear portion, a top wall that extends only over the rear portion, and front side wall portions and a front wall portion extending upward from the bottom wall to an upper surface of the front portion, and metal contacts disposed on the upper surface of the front portion in a contact region located adjacent to the front wall, wherein the front side wall portions and the front wall portion are shorter than the rear side wall portions such that the upper surface of the front portion is disposed between the bottom wall and the upper wall, a printed circuit board assembly including an elongated printed circuit board (PCB) having a front edge attached to the rear portion of the connector substrate, and a rear edge disposed opposite to the front edge, and at least one integrated circuit electrically connected to and mounted on the PCB adjacent to the rear end; and a metal wrap having a lower metal sheet, side metal sheets respectively connected at opposite sides of the lower metal sheet and extending substantially perpendicular to the lower metal sheet, and an upper metal sheet attached to upper ends of the side metal sheets, whereby the metal wrap defines an elongated interior region having a substantially rectangular cross-section, and front edges of the lower, side and upper metal sheets collectively define a front opening, wherein the sub-assembly is slidably inserted inside the metal wrap such that, when both the connector substrate and the printed circuit board assembly are located inside the interior region of the metal wrap, the bottom and top walls of the connector substrate respectively contact the lower and upper metal sheets of the metal wrap, and wherein the device further comprises means for securing the connector substrate to the metal wrap when the front wall of the connector substrate is aligned with the front opening of the metal wrap.