Patent ID: 6530788
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: H01R,H05K

Abstract:
A structure of a ball grid array IC connection with solder balls comprising a socket having a plurality of through slots, a plurality of conductive plates each fitted into one of said through slots, wherein each of said conductive plate is a bendable, flexible conductive thin plate having an upper end formed into two opposed clipping walls for insertion and clipping of IC pins and a lower end formed into a rectangular tube with a slot, said rectangular tube being formed with an inwardly extending blocking plate such that a solder ball is snugly fitted into said rectangular tube thereby causing a top of said solder ball to contact said blocking plate and said solder ball to be held by three inner sides of said rectangular tube and said slot of said rectangular tube, said blocking plate being located at a height equal to one-half of height of said solder ball.