Patent ID: 6733304
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An electrical connector assembly used for electrically connecting an IC module to a printed circuit board, comprising:a generally rectangular base defining a multiplicity of passageways, a plurality of orientation posts and a plurality of solid fixing posts, each of the fixing posts having a connecting portion connecting with the base and a fixing portion extending from the connecting portion; a frame conjoined with the base and defining a plurality of orientation holes and fixing holes engagingly receiving the orientation posts and the fixing posts respectively; wherein each of the fixing posts is generally a solid column, but with a planar surface on a periphery thereof, said surface being parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the fixing post, the orientation posts are arranged at the two opposite sides of the base, and each of the orientation posts is generally semi-cylindrical, the fixing posts are defined at two diagonally opposite corners of the base, the fixing portion defines a guide chamfer thereon and wherein each of the fixing holes of the frame is a surrounded by a step thereat.