Patent ID: 8926354
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G01R,H05K

Abstract:
1. A socket for an electric part, the socket comprising: a socket body which has a rectangle shape and has an accommodation surface to accommodate the electric part having a lower surface with terminals, a row of contact pins which comprises a plurality of contact pins of horseshoe-shapes, wherein the contact pins are disposed in parallel and at predetermined intervals to a peripheral edge of the socket body, and each of the contact pins has an elastic piece to contact with the terminals of the electric part, a latch rotatably disposed on the socket body so as to be positioned above the row of the contact pins, wherein the latch presses an upper part of peripheral portion of the electric part when the latch is closed and is in a state such that the electric part is able to be accommodated onto and taken out from the accommodation surface when the latch is opened, and an operating member vertically movably disposed in the socket body, and comprises first closing operating portions constituted so as to press upward second closing operation portions formed to both side end portion of the latch, and rotate the latch in a closing direction when the operating member moves upward, wherein the first and second closing operation portions are formed at outsides of the both ends of the row of the contact pins.