Patent ID: RE39418

Claim:
Apparatus for mounting a ball grid array device comprising: (a) a support member having a support face with a plurality of windows therein arranged in a pattern to correspond with and receive terminal balls depending from one face of a ball grid array device when said ball grid array device is positioned on the support face of said support member; (b) a base member; (c) a bending plate having apertures therein substantially corresponding with said windows positioned between said base member and said support member and adapted for lateral movement with respect to said support member; (d) a plurality of elongated contact members anchored in said base member, each having an interconnection end and a free end portion disposed on opposite sides of a central section with said central section projecting through an aperture in said bending plate and said free end portion positioned in a window in said support member; and (e) a cam adapted to move the position of said bending plate laterally with respect to said support member and thereby urge said free end portions into contact with said terminal balls between the centerline thereof and the face from which they depend.