Contactor for an electronic tester
AssigneeFeinmetall GmbH
InventorsGustav Kruger, Sven Hinnerwisch
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Abstract
The contactor is used for an electronic tester for testing of electronic items such as printed circuit boards, integrated circuits or the like. It has at least one resilient contact pin which has a piston member and a spring. The piston member and the spring are formed in a single piece from a single piece of metal sheet.
Claims39
In a contactor for an electronic tester for testing an electronic device such as a printed circuit board, an integrated circuit and the like, said contactor having at least one resilient contact pin which is electrically conducting and engagable with a contact or terminal of said electronic device, each of said resilient contact pins having a plunger member whose plunger head is guided linearly in a slot, said plunger member being followed in the axial direction by a spring, the improvement wherein said plunger member and said spring of each of said resilient contact pins are jointly formed in one piece from a portion of metal sheet to form a resilient axial bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.