Patent ID: 7102370

Claim:
A hand held probe for electronic signals, comprising: first and second rods; a sleeve having first and second bores each sized to receive a respective one of the first and second rods, the axes of the bores being parallel; first and second contact assemblies, each attached to a first distal end of the respective rod and each having a probe tip that is displaced from the axis of the rod to which that contact assembly is attached; a second distal end of each of the first and second rods being carried within the respective bore in the sleeve; the first contact assembly being non-rotatable about the axis of the first rod; the second contact assembly being rotatable about the axis of the second rod and eccentrically rotatable about the axis of the first rod to vary the spacing between the probe tips of the first and second contact assemblies when the sleeve is manipulated with the probe tip of the second contact assembly in physical contact with a second location to be probed and as the probe tip of the first contact assembly is positioned proximate a first location to be probed; a spring coupled between the sleeve and the combination of the second rod and second contact assembly to resist force pushing the second rod into the second bore; and first and second conductors each respectively coupled at a distal end thereof to a corresponding one of the contact assemblies and coupleable at their other ends to electronic test equipment.