Usb plug cable assembly

A cable assembly, comprising:

• a plurality of contacts each having a mating surface;
• a insulation housing molded to fill and enclosing the contacts with mating portions of these contacts being exposed to be connected to outside of the insulation housing;
• a printed circuit board electrically connected to the contacts;
• a front cover covering the housing;
• a rear cover located behind the front cover;
• and
• a metal shell assembled on the insulation housing and received in the rear cover;
• wherein
• the metal shell has a cross-section area is smaller than that of the front cover.

A cable connector assembly comprising:

• an insulative housing with a plurality of terminals embedded therein with contacting sections exposed upon a mating face of the mating tongue of the housing;
• a printed circuit board located behind the mating tongue and defining opposite surfaces thereof, on one of which solder tails of the terminals are mounted;
• a front metallic shell enclosing the mating tongue with a mating cavity around the mating face in a vertical direction;
• a rear metallic shell assembled to a rear section of the housing and essentially behind the front metallic shell;
• and
• an insulative cover overmolded upon the rear metallic shell with thereof a contour essentially coplanar with the front metallic shell circumferentially.