Patent ID: 7128593

Claim:
A land grid array socket for electrically connecting a land grid array package with a circuit substrate, the socket comprising: a socket body; a plurality of contacts received in the socket body; a stiffener attached to the socket body; and a socket plate and a load lever respectively mounted to opposite ends of the stiffener, the socket plate comprising a connecting side to assemble to the stiffener, an opposite pressing side to engage with the load lever, and a pair of lateral sides respectively and integrally connected to the connecting side and the pressing side, wherein the lateral sides of the socket plate form a pair of downwardly bent clasping sections around a middle section thereof and a pair of downwardly extending accessorial pressing members adjacent the pressing side, wherein each of the pair of clasping sections being substantially closer to a middle point of each lateral side than each of the pair of accessorial pressing members, the clasping sections and the accessorial pressing members cooperatively press a top surface of the land grid array package.