Patent ID: 7893705

Claim:
A module for a tester for testing circuit boards, wherein the tester has a grid on which an adapter and/or a translator may be arranged in order to connect contact points of the grid with circuit board test points of a circuit board to be tested, and the module includes a support plate and a contact board, wherein the contact board is is comprised of a rigid circuit board section which is described as a grid element, at least one flexible circuit board section, and a third section with the at least one flexible circuit board section connecting the grid element to the third section, and the grid element is a portion of the grid and provided on the grid element are contact points which each form part of the contact points of the grid and are arranged with a density of at least 100 contact points per square centimeter, and the grid element is mounted at right-angles to a plane of the support plate at an end face of the support plate, and the flexible circuit board section is bent to connect to the third section of the contact board, which is roughly parallel to the plane of the support plate, wherein each of the contact points of the grid element is in electrical contact with conductor paths running in the contact board and extending from the grid element into the flexible circuit board section.