Patent ID: 8714988
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: G01R,H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector for selectively coupling an electrical load to a device under test comprising: a housing having an aperture formed therein with one portion of the aperture larger than the other portion of the aperture and mounted on the device under test with the housing positioned over a plurality of electrical contacts disposed on a first surface of the device under test and the larger portion of the aperture disposed toward the device under test; an electrical load having a resistive load and at least a first electrical contact assembly with the resistive load having a plurality of the resistors being configured such that a least one of the configurations of the plurality of resistors is on and through a planar body with each resistor having a pair of opposing electrical contacts and each electrical contact being exposed at a respective surface of the planar body and the first electrical contact assembly having opposing surfaces with a plurality of electrical contacts exposed at the respective opposing surfaces with each electrical contact exposed at one opposing surface electrically coupled to a corresponding electrical contact exposed at the other opposing surface; the resistive load and the first electrical contact assembly mating with each other with the plurality of electrical contacts exposed at one surface of the planar body and the plurality of electrical contact exposed at one surface of the first electrical contact assembly contacting each other, the resistive load and the electrical contact assembly positioned in the larger aperture of the housing; a resilient member positioned between the electrical load and the device under test such that a force directed on the electrical load through the aperture of the housing compresses the resilient member to allow contact between the plurality of electrical contacts exposed on the other surface of the first electrical contact assembly and the plurality of the electrical contacts on the device under test and a release of the force directed on the electrical load decompresses the resilient member and disconnects the plurality of contacts of the first electrical contact assembly from the plurality of electrical contacts of the device under test.