Patent ID: 7259967

Claim:
A Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) device comprising: a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) including: a printed circuit board (PCB) having opposing upper and lower surfaces and including a relatively wide PCB body section and a relatively narrow PCB plug section, a plurality of metal contacts disposed on the upper surface of the PCB plug section, and a plurality of integrated circuits including first and second integrated circuits (ICs) respectively mounted on the upper and lower surfaces of the PCB body section, and a third IC mounted on the lower surface of the PCB, wherein the third IC is at least partially mounted on the PCB plug section; and a housing structure including: a housing body including a handle portion mounted over the PCB body section, and a plug portion extending under the PCB plug section, and a plastic plug shell structure including side walls extending upward from the lower plug portion, and an upper shell wall integrally connected to upper ends of the first and second shell side walls and positioned over and spaced from the upper surface of the PCB plug section, wherein the metal contacts of the PCB are exposed in a gap defined between the PCB plug section and the upper shell wall.