Patent ID: 6367763
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
Apparatus for mounting an LGA package having a plurality of terminal lands or leads with surfaces extending in a plane substantially parallel with one face of the LGA package comprising:(a) a support base having oppositely disposed first and second faces lying in substantially parallel planes; (b) a plurality of substantially C-shaped contact pins, each having a first end, a second end and a contact knee intermediate said first end and said second end with the first end of each contact pin secured to said first face, the second end of each contact pin suspended above said second face and said contact knee lying in a plane parallel with but spaced from said second face in the direction opposite said first face, with said contact knees arranged in a pattern corresponding to the pattern of the lands or leads on an LGA package; (c) contact pads connected to conductive circuitry on said second face wherein said contact pads are arranged and aligned in register with the second ends of at least some of said contact pins; (d) circuitry on the first face of said support base in electrical contact with the first ends of at least some of said contact pins; and (e) means for urging the lands or leads of said LGA package uniformly into contact with the knees of said contact pins sufficiently to bend the contact pins and urge the second ends of said contact pins toward the plane of the second surface of said support base.