Patent ID: 7614885

Claim:
A method for assembling an IC package in a socket connector comprising the steps of: (a) providing a base with perimeter walls extending upward therefrom to defining a cavity, said cavity further comprising a contact receiving surface thereon; (b) providing a pair of retaining tabs formed on opposite perimeter walls, each retaining tab defining a gap between a lower surface of said retaining tab and said contact receiving surface; (c) providing at least a biasing tab formed on a opposite perimeter wall adjacent to said opposite perimeter walls; (d) providing an IC package having least a pair of notches corresponding to said retaining tabs; one on each opposite perimeter walls; (e) aligning said notches with said retaining tabs on an edge of opposite perimeter walls; (f) pressing said IC package downward and pushing said biasing tab outward for electrically connecting said IC package with said socket connector; and (g) releasing said IC package such that an elastic force come from said biasing tabs push said IC package inward for forming a biasing between said retaining tabs and top face positions along side edge region of the IC package besides said notches, wherein said retaining tab can be any shape, wherein said notches having the same shape as the one of said retaining tab for passing the IC package through said retaining tab and being mounted in said socket connector, wherein the shape of said retaining tap is selected from the group comprising bump, semi-columnar, strip, lump, semi-spherical, trapezoid, prism and block, wherein said base and said perimeter walls is made of insulative material, wherein said biasing tab further comprising a biasing point at a free end thereof extending into said cavity, wherein the biasing tab abuts against a side face of the IC package while the retaining tab abuts against a top face of the electronic package.