Patent ID: 7118386

Claim:
A socket for a semiconductor device, comprising: a socket body having a semiconductor device placement section for selectively accommodating a semiconductor device for electrical connection with contact terminals, said semiconductor device being one of a plurality of semiconductor devices having contour dimensions different from one another; a pressing member having a touch portion brought in contact with said semiconductor device and pressing said semiconductor device toward said contact terminals, said pressing member being driven by a pressing member driving mechanism in accordance with the attachment or detachment of said semiconductor device relative to said semiconductor device placement section, for holding said semiconductor device in said semiconductor device placement section; and wherein, when said pressing member driving mechanism moves said touch portion of said pressing member to a position in which said touch portion of said pressing member does not contact said semiconductor device upon the attachment or detachment of said semiconductor device, a portion of said pressing member is bulged outwardly from an end of said socket body via an opening of said socket body.