Patent ID: 6229320
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: G01R,H01L

Abstract:
An IC socket mounted on a test board while in use and having a semiconductor device with projection electrodes mounted on said IC socket for testing, comprising:a supporting structure made of an elastic member; anda plurality of straight contact pins which are supported by the supporting structure so as to be embedded therein, each pin having a first end electrically connected to said test board and a second end thereof connected to one of said projection electrodes, each of the straight contact pins having a diameter sufficiently small for each of said plurality of contact pins to pierce a corresponding one of said projection electrodes, said IC socket being electrically connected to said test board by said second end of said plurality of contact pins piercing said projection electrodes,wherein each of said straight contact pins consists of a wire member having a substantially constant diameter along its length.