Patent ID: 8602805
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A socket for testing an electronic device comprising: a base member, a cover member removably attached with the base member, the cover member reciprocating between being separated from the base member mad adjacent to the base member; a plurality of contacts, each contact fixed with the base member and having an elastically deformable portion between first and second ends; a latch member rotatably supported on the base member, the latch member rotating in response to movement of the cover member, the latch member being in a first position when the latch member can press the electronic device mad the cover member is in a separated position from the base member, and the latch member being in a second evacuated position when the cover member is in an adjacent position to the base member; a mounting member attached with the base and providing a mounting surface for the electronic device, the mounting member movable in a rising and falling direction in response to the movement of the cover member; and a latch plate rotatably attached with the mounting member and urged at a first direction by an elastic member; wherein the mounting member is formed with a latch plate guide that moves the latch plate in the vertical direction when the latch plate is in the first pressable position to press the electronic device; mad wherein the latch member makes the latch plate rotate in a second direction opposed to the first direction by contacting the latch plate when the latch member is moved from the second evacuated position to the first pressable position; wherein the latch plate includes a pair of sidewalls and a pressing portion connecting the sidewalls, the pair of sidewalls formed with axis portion that is rotatably engaged with the mounting member, opposing ends of the pressing portion formed with tabs that extend outside the sidewalls.