Patent ID: 7815469

Claim:
An extended universal serial bus (USB) plug connector, comprising: a front piece including a tongue having a first set of plurality electrical contact pins disposed on a top surface of the tongue and a second set of a plurality of electrical pins disposed on a bottom surface of the tongue, wherein the first and second sets of electrical contact pins disposed on the tongue are used to connect another USB receptacle of an external device, wherein the front piece further includes a receptacle end opposite to the tongue; and a rear piece including a third set and a fourth set of electrical contact pins can be mounted on a first and second sets of electrical contact pads of a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly (PCBA) respectively, the PCBA having a flash controller and one or more flash memory devices disposed thereon, wherein the rear piece further includes a tip portion inserted into the receptacle end of the front piece, such that the first and second set of electrical contact pins disposed on the tongue of the front piece and the third and fourth sets of the electrical contact pins of the rear piece are electrically engaged respectively, wherein the third set and the fourth set of electrical contact pins of the rear piece are arranged in a first row and a second row, wherein the first row of the electrical contact pins can be mounted on a first surface of the PCBA and the second row of the electrical contact pins can be mounted on a second surface of the PCBA opposite to the first surface, wherein the rear piece of the extended USB plug connector comprises one or more tabs and the front piece of the extended USB plug connector comprises one or more slots corresponding to the one or more tabs, and wherein when the rear piece is inserted into the receptacle end of the front piece, the one or more tabs of the rear piece are snapped into the one or more slots of the front piece, such that the front and rear pieces are interlocked with each other, and wherein the front piece of the extended USB plug connector further includes a first tip portion in a generally tubular shape, wherein the rear piece of the extended USB plug connector further includes a second tip portion, which when the rear piece is inserted into the front piece, the second tip portion is inserted into the first tip portion of the front piece.