Patent ID: 7654830

Claim:
An IC socket, for interconnecting an IC package with a circuit substrate, comprising: a cover includes a lower cover and an upper cover pivotally mounted on a front end of the lower cover, a locking member assembled on a free end of the upper cover; an rectangular insulative housing having a first receiving cavity with a bottom wall; a plurality of terminals disposed in the bottom wall of the insulative housing with contacting sections extending upwardly into the first receiving cavity and to contact with the IC package loaded thereon; the housing defining opposite first and second longitudinal ends thereof, a cross bar located at the first end, a pair of spaced ribs arranged on the second longitudinal end with another a pair of longitudinally extending holes formed on the respective ribs to allow a first holding shaft to penetrate therethrough; the front end of the lower cover having longitudinally extending holes therein to allow a second holding shaft to penetrate therethrough to form a pivotal connection between the lower cover and the upper cover, a hook formed around a front end of the upper cover opposite to the free end of the upper cover for engagement with the crossbar; a plurality of detachable aligning elements disposed in the first receiving cavity of the insulative housing, said aligning elements having positioning surfaces cooperatively defining a second receiving cavity for snugly accommodating the IC package therein; each aligning element further has two posts extending downwardly from bottom surfaces of the legs for being inserted into corresponding positioning holes defined in the bottom wall of the insulative housing, and a recessed portion is defined in a corner between the two legs of each aligning element to reduce a stress between the two posts.