Patent ID: 7845957

Claim:
An IC socket, adapted for electrically connecting with an IC package and a printed circuit board, comprising: a base; a socket body assembled in the base and including a first insulative housing and a second insulative housing, which are movable in a horizontal direction relative to each other; an actuating mechanism assembled on the base; and a plurality of contacts held in the socket body, each contact having a main portion, an upper resilient arm and a lower resilient arm extending obliquely respectively from opposite ends of the main portion, and the contact elongating along a vertical direction when the actuating mechanism actuates the insulative housings to move; wherein the upper resilient arm is positioned in the first insulative housing, and the lower resilient arm is located in the second insulative housing; wherein the first and the second insulative housings are received in a chamber defined in a center of the base by shafts passing holes defined on the base and elliptical through hole defined on the first and the second insulative housings; wherein the first insulative housing includes a plurality of first insulative plates arranged side by side, the second insulative housing includes a plurality of second insulative plates arranged side by side; wherein the first insulative plate and the second insulative plate have same configurations; and wherein the first insulative plate includes a rectangular receiving portion and two resisting portions located beside two opposite ends of the receiving portion, the receiving portion is formed with a plurality of spaced first projections on a top edge thereof and a plurality of spaced second projections on a bottom edge thereof to position the contact.