Patent ID: 6666691
Filing Date: 2003-12-23
Classification: G01R,H05K

Abstract:
A socket for removably mounting an electronic package having a plurality of terminals comprising:a base, a plurality of elongated contact elements each having a first mounting end and a second contact end, the first end of each contact element fixedly mounted in the base with the second end extending away from the base and being displaceable toward the base, each contact element having a protrusion disposed a selected distance from the second contact end, an adaptor mounted on the base for vertical movement toward and away from the base between a first loading and unloading position and a second operating position closer to the base, the adaptor having a bottom wall formed with a plurality of contact element receiving holes therethrough and having a seating surface for an electronic package, a contact element position regulator disposed between the adaptor and the base and being vertically movable between a position having at least a second selected distance from the seating surface when the adaptor is in the first loading and unloading position and a second, lesser distance when the adaptor is in the second operating position, the regulator having a bottom wall formed with a plurality of contact element receiving holes therethrough in alignment with respective holes in the adaptor, each contact element having a portion thereof received through a respective hole of the regulator and at least partly through an aligned hole in the adaptor, a stop surface formed in each hole of the regulator with upward movement of the contact elements being limited by engagement of the contact element protrusions with respective stop surfaces.