Patent ID: 6824410
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A test socket comprising:a base for attachment to a test board; a guide having a bevel for accepting an edge of a memory module during insertion into the test socket, the bevel for sliding the memory module into a position for testing; a first housing shell, pivotally attached to the base along a first pivot axis; a first activator, coupled to the first housing shell, to move the first housing shell to pivot around the first pivot axis to open and close the test socket; a first membrane, attached to the first housing shell to pivot with the first housing shell; first contacts on the first membrane, that make physical and electrical contact with first metal contact pads on a first surface of the memory module when the first activator pivots the first housing shell to close the test socket, but do not make electrical or physical contact with the first metal contact pads on the memory module when the first activator pivots the first housing shell to open the test socket; a second housing shell, pivotally attached to the base along a second pivot axis; a second activator, coupled to the second housing shell, to move the second housing shell to pivot around the second pivot axis to open and close the test socket; a second membrane, attached to the second housing shell to pivot with the second housing shell; and second contacts on the second membrane, that make physical and electrical contact with second metal contact pads on a second surface of the memory module opposite the first surface when the second activator pivots the second housing shell to close the test socket, but do not make electrical or physical contact with the second metal contact pads on the memory module when the second activator pivots the second housing shell to open the test socket.