Patent ID: 7440287

Claim:
An extended Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) device having a connector plug compatible with an extended USB socket and a standard USB socket, the extended USB device comprising: a plastic housing; a USB metal plug; a plug substrate having one or more top tabs and one or more side tabs; and a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly (PCBA) having a USB plug portion and a component portion formed on a single PCB, wherein the USB plug portion comprises an extended pin substrate that has an extended length that is longer than or equal to a standard length of the pin substrate of the standard USB connector plug, plug standard metal contact pins on the pin substrate, wherein when the standard pin substrate of the extended USB connector plug is inserted into a cavity of the standard USB socket, the plug standard metal contact pins make physical and electrical contact with socket standard metal contact pins on a socket pin substrate, and plug extended metal contact pins on the extended pin substrate, wherein when the extended pin substrate of the extended USB connector plug is inserted into a cavity of the extended USB socket, the plug extended metal contact pins on the extended pin substrate make physical and electrical contact with socket extended metal contact pins on the extended USB socket, and wherein the plug extended metal contact pins make contact when the extended USB connector plug is inserted into the extended USB socket, but do not make contact when inserted into the standard USB socket, wherein the component portion of the PCBA includes one or more electrical contact pads disposed on at least one surface of the PCB to enable at least one USB compatible circuit surface mounted on the one or more electrical contact pads, wherein the PCBA is secured on the plug substrate via the one or more top tabs, wherein the plug substrate having the PCBA is inserted into the USB metal plug, and wherein the USB metal plug having the plug substrate inserted therein is inserted into the plastic housing and secured via the one or more side tabs of the plug substrate.