Patent ID: 7717729
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A land grid array socket, comprising: an insulative housing equipped with a plurality of contacts, the insulative housing having a top surface for receiving a land grid array package; a metallic reinforcing plate mounted on a bottom surface of the insulative housing; a cover member pivotally mounted on a first end of the metallic reinforcing plate, the cover member being pivotal between an open position and a closed position where the cover member presses the land grid array package toward the top surface of the insulative housing so that the land grid array electrically connects to the contacts; and a lever having a shaft portion with opposite first and second end sections thereof and essentially defining a first axle pivotally mounted on a second end of the metallic reinforcing plate, opposite to the first end of the metallic reinforcing plate, wherein said lever is rotated about the first axle with regard to the reinforcing plate, and an operating arm portion unitarily extending from the first end section of the shaft portion in essentially a perpendicular manner, said shaft portion further equipped, at the second end section, with an abutment section essentially offset from the first axle so as to be forcibly engaged with the reinforcing plate to create a self-biasing force with respect to the reinforcing plate and thus urge the operating arm laterally and inwardly toward the reinforcing plate for assuring locking between the lever and the reinforcing plate when a locking portion formed on the operating arm of the lever locks the cover member in the closed position.