Patent ID: 8568150

Claim:
A socket for a central processing unit (CPU), comprising: a housing; a bottom base received in and fastened to a lower portion of the housing, the bottom base defining a plurality of slanting accommodating holes, a plurality of slanting pins extending up from a top of the bottom base, wherein a slanting direction of the accommodating holes is the same as a slanting direction of the pins; a slide base slidably received in the housing and above the bottom base, the slide base defining a plurality of slanting through holes receiving the pins, the slide base comprising a plurality of slanting protrusions respectively engaged in the accommodating holes, each protrusion defining a slanting receiving hole; and a plurality of resilient members each received in one of the receiving hole and the corresponding accommodating hole; wherein when the slide base slides down, the protrusions slide down along the corresponding accommodating holes and compress the resilient members, the pins extend out of the corresponding through holes from a top of the slide base, to connect the CPU.