IC socket
AssigneeOki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Nagamine
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Abstract
An IC socket comprises a socket body (13), a contact pin (14) with a contact portion (17) erected on the socket body (13) such that it is flexible toward the inside of the socket body (13), and a pressing member (15). The contact portion (17) has a contact face made by rounding a rectangular upper portion of the contact pin (14), thus minimizing an area of contact with the terminal (12) of a semiconductor package (11).
Claims12
An IC socket for a semiconductor device having a package and at least one terminal extending outwardly from said package, said IC socket comprising:
- (a) a socket body;
- (b) at least one bar-type contact pin standing upright on said socket body and having a contact portion at a top end thereof, said contact pin being flexible toward a center of said socket body when said terminal of said semiconductor device presses said contact portion;
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- (c) a pressing member for pressing said terminal against said contact portion;
- (d) said contact portion having a contact face made by rounding a rectangular upper portion of said contact pin in a widthwise direction of said rectangular upper portion for contact with a lower curved face of said terminal of said semiconductor device.
An IC socket for a semiconductor device having a package and at least one terminal extending outwardly from said package, said IC socket comprising:
- (b) a socket body made of a dielectric material;
- (b) at least one bar-type contact pin made of a metal strip and standing upright on said socket body such that it is flexible toward a center of said socket body when said terminal of said semiconductor device presses said contact pin;
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- (c) a contact face made by rounding a rectangular upper portion of said contact pin in a widthwise direction of said rectangular upper portion, thus minimizing an area of contact with a lower curved face of said terminal of said semiconductor device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.