Patent ID: 7317312

Claim:
A method for using a guide for tip to transmission path contact, said method comprising the steps of: (a) providing at least one guide insulator having at least one passageway defined by said at least one guide insulator, said at least one passageway having a tip passageway end and a transmission path passageway end, said tip passageway end suitable for at least partially accommodating said tip, said transmission path passageway end suitable for at least partially accommodating a transmission path, said at least one guide insulator having at least one passageway that includes a contact enhancing mechanism; (b) interconnecting said guide insulator with a circuit board component having at least one transmission path such that said transmission path is at least partially accommodated within said transmission path passageway, interconnecting said contact enhancing mechanism with said at least one transmission path; and (c) probing said transmission path by inserting a tip of an electronic test probe into said tip passageway end and touching said tip to said contact enhancing mechanism, such that said tip electrically contacts said transmission path.