Patent ID: 6350137
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: G01R,H01R,H05K

Abstract:
An IC socket comprising:.a socket main body for elastically supporting a cover having an IC insertion window formed thereon to be movable up and down; and a plurality of contact pins, which are attached to said socket main body, for connecting gull-wing shaped leads taken out of a side surface of an IC resin mold to an external electrical test circuit, each of said contact pins comprising: a base portion fixed to said socket main body; a first contact portion, which is extended from said base portion, for supporting corresponding one of said leads in a state that it is positioned by a pin support portion formed on said socket main body; and a second contact portion, which is connected to said base portion through a spring portion, for bending and deforming said spring portion by being pressed by said cover when said cover is depressed, and for guiding said one of said IC leads onto said first contact portion after retracting from said first contact portion, and for sandwiching said one of said leads between said first contact portion and said second contact portion by an elastic restoring force of said spring portion when said cover returns to an original position, whereby performing an electrical connection, wherein a positioning step portion, which is engaged with said one of said leads and the side surface of said IC resin mold to position said IC, is formed on said first contact portion.