Patent ID: 7052287

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 PCB body section and a PCB plug section, a plurality of metal contacts disposed on the upper surface of the PCB plug section, and at least one integrated circuit (IC) mounted on the PCB body section, the IC including means for processing USB signals transmitted to the plurality of metal contacts; and a plastic housing including a handle portion mounted over the PCB body section such that the IC is enclosed inside the handle portion, and a plug portion integrally connected to and extending from the cover portion, wherein the plug portion includes: a plug substrate structure extending under and abutting the lower surface of the PCB plug section, a plug shell structure including first and second shell side walls extending upward from the plug substrate structure along respective side edges of the PCB plug section, and an upper shell wall integrally connected to upper ends of the first and second shell side walls and to the handle portion, and positioned over and spaced from the upper surface of the PCB plug section by a predetermined gap.