Patent ID: 8742783

Claim:
A contactor for testing a test target that is brought into contact with and separated from an electrode formed on the test target and tests electrical characteristics of an electric circuit having the electrode, comprising: one or more conductive members having a contact brought into contact with and separated from said electrode formed and having flexibility and conductivity; an elastic member that overlaps and is directly connected to said conductive member to form a U-shaped contact portion and to elastically urge the contact in a predetermined pressing direction; and a main body member to which said elastic member is fixed in a state projecting towards the outside of a housing of the main body member at a predetermined fixed position and to which said conductive member is electrically connected from outside of the housing; an electrically conductive spring electrode connecting one end of said conductive member to connection electrodes on said main body member, said spring electrode being fixed to said main body member by a fixing plate; and a fixing member connecting the other end of said conductive member to said elastic member, wherein said fixing plate and said fixing member are both removable.