What is the 9-pin docking connector? Double USB? And "name that socket!" (Aspire SW5 111)

johngorno

Mysterious 9-pin docking cable and its mystery socket

This is probably not specific to my particular model;  Google has been surprisingly unhelpful in answering these questions.  What data type is the docking cable?  (I'm guessing that it's a variation on the common internal 9 pin double-USB block.) If I could get a pin layout, that would be great!

 

And does anyone know what the name for this style of 9-in-a-row connector/socket (inside the keyboard dock)?  I have an idea that requires plugging this docking cable into a new component which will, in turn, plug into this socket, but I don't even know what to call this form factor to shop for it.  (I don't want to mutilate a docking cable just to detach the connector.)

 

Thanks,

JF