Socket for electrical parts

A socket for an electrical part, which comprises a socket body, a contact pin disposed to the socket body, a movable member mounted on the socket body and adapted to displace the contact pin and an operation means for moving the movable member to thereby displace the contact pin, and in which when the contact pin is displaced, a terminal of an electrical part is fitted to the socket body with the terminal being in non-contact state to the contact pin and when the movable member is returned to an original position before the movement thereof, the displacement of the contact pin is released and the terminal of the electrical part contacts an contacting portion of the contact pin to thereby establish an electrical connection therebetween,

• wherein said contacting portion comprises a pair of contact pieces of the contact pin adapted to clamp the terminal therebetween, an arrangement of the contact pieces has a direction inclined obliquely with respect to the moving direction of the movable member, and the direction of the displacement of the contacting portion of the contact pin is set to a direction oblique with respect to the moving direction of the movable member.