Patent ID: 6866531

Claim:
A socket for an electrical part, comprising a socket body, wherein the socket body comprises: an electrical part accommodation portion, a base portion, a floating plate disposed above the base portion to be vertically movable with respect thereto, the floating plate being formed with a through hole, a contact pin to be contacted to or separated from a terminal of the electrical part, insertable through the through hole, wherein said contact pin has a contact portion, which projects upward over the through hole formed to the electrical part accommodation portion formed to the socket body irrespective of accommodation condition of the electrical part, wherein a plurality of mount projections are formed upward on the accommodation portion of the floating plate for mounting the electrical part thereon each with a projection amount being larger than a projection amount of the contact portion of the contact pin at a time when the floating plate is positioned at a top dead center thereof, and wherein the terminal is not in contact with the contact pin when the electrical Dart is mounted and the floating plate is positioned at the top dead center thereof, the terminal being abutted against the contact pin when the floating plate is depressed from the too dead center thereof.