Patent ID: 8092231

Claim:
A socket for an electric component comprising: a socket body having an accommodating part that accommodates the electric component; a pressing member that presses the electric component accommodated in the accommodating part toward a substrate when the socket body is mounted on the substrate; and a plurality of contact pins that are incorporated inside the socket body and that make the electric component electrically conduct with the substrate when the pressing member presses the electric component, wherein: the contact pins each comprise: a lower contact part that is electrically conductive with a contact point of the substrate; an upper contact part that contacts an upper terminal of the electric component upon the press; and a curved-spring part that is located between the lower contact part and the upper contact part, that is elastically deformed upon the press, and that, by its elasticity, presses the upper contact part against the terminal of the electric component; and the contact pins are each formed in such a shape that, upon the press, after the upper contact part starts contacting the terminal of the electric component, an upper contact part side rotates about a contact point of the upper contact part with a terminal of the electric component, until the press is finished, and a location of the contact point with the terminal of the electric component does not change.