Patent ID: 7501838
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A contact assembly mounted between an electronic device to be tested and a circuit inspecting device to electrically connect the electronic device to the circuit inspecting device, the contact assembly comprising: contacts, each of which includes vertical type probes and a ribbon-shaped resin film to which the vertical type probes are mounted apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the ribbon-shaped resin film, each of the vertical type probes including a first terminal which contacts a pad of the electronic device to be tested, a second terminal which contacts a pad of the circuit inspecting device, and an elastic deforming part which is formed between the first terminal and the second terminal; a position determining member for overlapping the contacts in the longitudinal direction of the contact such that the contacts are separated from each other and the vertical type probes are arranged misalignedly by a predetermined pitch in the longitudinal direction of the ribbon- shaped resin film, and fixing the contacts in a width direction; and a guide block that is formed with an opening for receiving the contacts fixed by the position determining member and recesses in which the position determining member is seated, the guide block having a thickness which is substantially same as a width of the contact, wherein the first terminals and the second terminals of the vertical type probes protrude above and below surface planes of the guide block, respectively.