Patent ID: 6114757
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: H01L,H01R,H05K

Abstract:
A socket for a leadless electronic circuit package comprising:a socket carrier including a frame retaining a thin electrically insulating sheet;a plurality of resilient conductive columns mounted on the sheet and extending between top and bottom surfaces thereof;first alignment elements on the carrier and adapted for cooperation with alignment elements on a circuit board on which the socket carrier is mounted to position the carrier on the circuit board with the conductive columns in registration and electrical contact with corresponding contacts on the circuit board;the carrier being sized and configured to receive an electronic circuit package having contacts on a surface thereof in a pattern corresponding to the pattern of resilient conductive columns of the socket carrier;second alignment elements on the carrier adapted for cooperation with alignment elements on the circuit package to provide alignment of the package contacts and the conductive columns when the package is mounted on the socket carrier; anda cover having a plurality of snap fittings which engage cooperative fittings on the circuit board to retain the circuit package in electrical engagement with the circuit board and socket carrier.