Patent ID: 6697263
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
An electronic device assembly comprising:a printed circuit board; a socket mounted on the printed circuit board, the socket comprising a base and a frame surrounding the base, the base receiving a plurality of terminals therein, the base and the frame cooperatively defining a receiving space; an electronic device received in the receiving space of the socket, the electronic device defining a top face located above a top surface of the frame in a vertical direction when said electronic device is, at a free stage, upwardly supported in said vertical direction by thereunder the terminals which are in a relaxed manner; and a thermal module disposed upon and in thermal and physical contact with the electronic device thereunder, and spaced from the top surface of the frame with a distance when said electronic device is at said free stage; wherein a fastening device fastens the printed circuit board and the thermal module together in said vertical direction and imposes a vertical force upon the thermal module to press downwardly against the electronic device at an engagement stage thus having the terminals in a compressed manner, under a condition that the thermal module is additionally supported in said vertical direction by the frame instead of by the electronic device only, and wherein a height of the electronic device is smaller than that of the receiving space, so that the terminals in the compressed manner still extend upwardly above a top surface of the base and urge the electronic device in thermal contact with the thermal module.