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US7428605:
Symmetric USB device with metal-tube plastic-plug shell with USB plug centered and integrated with circuit board substrate
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US United States of America
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Ni, Jim Chin-Nan; San Jose, CA, United States of America
Ma, Abraham C.; Fremont, CA, United States of America
Lee, Edward W.; Mountain View, CA, United States of America
Shen, Ming-Shiang; Taipei Hsien, Taiwan
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Super Talent Electronics inc., San Jose, CA, United States of America
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| Published / Filed: |
2008-09-23
/ 2006-10-11
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| Application Number: |
US2006000309842
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| IPC Code: |
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G06F 13/12;
H01R 29/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
H01R13/66D2; H01R13/717L;
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| U.S. Class: |
710/062;
710/072;
439/043;
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Non/00e
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| Abstract: |
A Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) device has a USB plug that is centered over a center-line of a circuit board. The circuit board with flash memory and a USB flash controller has metal pads that a USB connector is soldered to. The USB connector has a rear step that is about half the height of the USB connector plug. Contacts on the rear step are soldered to the metal pads on the circuit board so that the USB connector is centered around the edge of the circuit board. The overall height of the flash device can be reduced since the bulky USB connector is not attached off-center to the circuit board, but is attached at the half-height rear step. Both the USB connector and the circuit board share the same center line, allowing a printed-circuit board assembly (PCBA) to be symmetric around the center line.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
gPatent LLC ;
Auvinen, Stuart T. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Chen, Alan;
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RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation-in-part (CIP) of the application for “Electronic Data Storage Medium with Fingerprint Verification Capability”, U.S. Ser. No. 09/478,720, filed Jan. 6, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,257,714.
This application is also a continuation-in-part (CIP) of the application for “Single-Chip USB Controller Reading Power-On Boot Code from Integrated Flash Memory for User Storage”, U.S. Ser. No. 10/707,277, filed Dec. 2, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,103,684.
This application is further related to U.S. Pat. No. 7,095,617, filed Aug. 22, 2006, for “Portable computer peripheral apparatus with reinforced connecting ring”, and U.S. Pat. No. 7,035,110, filed Oct. 1, 2004, for “Portable computer peripheral apparatus with reinforced connecting ring”, and U.S. Pat. No. 6,854,984, filed Sep. 11, 2003, for “Slim USB connector with spring-engaging depressions, stabilizing dividers and wider end rails for flash-memory drive”.
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1. A Universal-Serial-Bus (USB) device with a centered USB connector comprising: a circuit board having a top surface and a bottom surface parallel to the top surface, the circuit board having edges around a perimeter of the top and bottom surfaces, the circuit board having wiring traces; an integrated circuit mounted on the top surface or on the bottom surface of the circuit board; a USB connector having a metal wrap forming a perimeter of a USB plug; USB metal contacts formed on a plug substrate within the USB connector, the USB metal contacts for making physical and electrical contact with metal contacts in a USB socket when the USB plug is inserted into the USB socket; wherein the USB connector is mounted to the circuit board so that the USB connector extends to a level above the top surface of the circuit board and the USB connector also extends to a level below the bottom surface of the circuit board; wherein the USB connector further comprises a back step, the back step having a step height that is half of a height of the USB connector; solder pads on the circuit board, for soldering the USB connector to the circuit board; and a housing shaped to surround the circuit board, the housing having a front opening shaped to allow the USB connector to be mounted into the housing during assembly, whereby the USB connector extends above and below the circuit board and whereby the USB connector is centered over the circuit board by the back step that is half-height.
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