Tyco Electronics Corporation

Brett Charles Miller

Attalee Snarr Taylor

Matthew Richard McAlonis

Justin Shane McClellan

Troy Everette Conner

John Bossert Brown, Iii

Peter Paul Wilson

Richard Elof Hamner

Michael Anthony Correll

James Charles Shiffler

David Charles Martin

A socket connector including a socket base having a slot oriented at a first angle with respect to a bottom surface of the socket base. The socket connector also includes a contact having a base beam and a retention portion. The retention portion forms an initial angle with the base beam before the contact is assembled with the socket base that differs from the first angle. The socket base receives the contact with the retention portion held in the slot such that an angle between the base beam and the retention portion is changed from the initial angle.

Socket connector carrying flexible contacts

A cover for an electrical socket includes multiple walls joined with one another and configured to overlay an electrical socket. A latch element is provided with at least one of the walls to securely retain the walls against the electrical socket. A rigid member is secured to the walls and retains the walls in a predefined relation with respect to one another. The rigid member includes a heat resistant plate rigidly mounted to the walls of the cover which include lower edges and upper edges aligned in a common plane. The upper and lower edges are configured to abut against and retain the electrical socket in a common planar relation with one another. Brackets extending from the walls slidably receive the rigid member.

Electronic package with socket and reinforced cover assembly

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East Berlin, PA, United States of America

Brett Charles Miller