Patent ID: 7316573

Claim:
A device for use with a package containing an integrated circuit, said package having a plurality of land contact terminals, said device comprising: a printed circuit board; and a socket connected to said printed circuit board, said socket having a plurality of leaf spring contact terminals and a standoff adapted to engage and support said package in a first position in which said package land contact terminals are disengaged from said socket leaf spring contact terminals, and wherein said standoff is adapted to move to a second position in which said package land contact terminals are engaged with said socket leaf spring contact terminals, said socket being adapted to latch said package to said socket in said second position; wherein said socket has a housing which defines an aperture adapted to receive said package, wherein said socket contact terminals are positioned within said socket housing aperture, each socket contact terminal having a base at one end secured to said housing and a contact face at the other end which is free of said standoff and positioned below a bottom surface of said standoff at said first standoff position, and wherein said standoff is coupled to said socket housing and extends into said socket housing aperture at a first height at said first standoff position, and extends into said socket housing at a second height, lower than said first height, at said standoff second position.