Patent ID: 8366454

Claim:
A socket for an electrical component having a terminal extending sideways, comprising: a socket body for accommodating the electrical component; and a contact pin attached to the socket body, said contact pin including a movable contact piece capable of elastically deforming, said movable contact piece including a movable contact part for contacting with and separating from an upper surface of the terminal of the electrical component and a fixed contact piece paired with the movable contact piece at an end portion thereof, said fixed contact piece including a fixed contact part for contacting with a lower surface of the terminal of the electrical component, wherein said socket body includes a floating plate arranged to be movable upward and downward for accommodating the electrical component, and a biasing member for urging the floating plate upward; said floating plate includes a pressed part; said movable contact piece includes a pressing part for pressing the pressed part; said biasing member lifts the floating plate rises upward when the movable contact piece is elastically deformed in an opening direction so that the movable contact part separates from the terminal and the terminal separates from the fixed contact part; and said pressing part presses the pressed part to move the floating plate downward against an urging force of the biasing member when the movable contact piece moves in a closing direction through elasticity thereof so that the movable contact part contacts with the upper surface of the terminal and the fixed contact part contacts with the lower surface of the terminal.