Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Masao Ohkita

Nick Lin

Yao-Chi Huang

Fang-Chu Liao

Chao-Chung Cheng

Genn-Sheng Lee

A socket connector includes a housing positioned on a circuit board and movably supporting a cover. Cells are defined in the housing for retaining dual-beam terminals. The cover carries a central processing unit module having pin legs extending through holes defined in the cover and projecting into the cells of the housing. The cover is movable in a moving direction to bring the pin legs into engagement with the terminals. Each terminal includes a base section retained in each cell and a tail extending and beyond the housing for being soldered to the circuit board. Two beams extend from the base section, substantially opposite to the tail. Each beam forms a spring arm. The spring arms are opposite to and spaced from each other for engaging the corresponding pin leg therebetween. The beams are symmetric with respect to an imaginary plane that is normal to the base section and coincident with the moving direction. Each beam has a major surface angularly offset from the imaginary plane and thus forming a first included angle with the imaginary plane. The major surface also forms a second included angle with the base section. The included angles are smaller than 90 degrees and greater than 0 degree. Preferably, the included angles are 45 degrees. The angularly offset configuration of the beams allows easy adjustment of the space between the spring arms and thus adjustment of the performance parameters of the terminals.

Terminal of socket connector

A contact comprises a base ( ) and a pair of arm sections ( ). The base has a body section ( ) adapted for being secured in a socket connector housing. The body section comprises a linking section ( ) downwardly extending from a bottom edge. A soldering section ( ) extends perpendicularly from a bottom edge of the linking section. The body section of the base defines a rectangular window ( ) dividing the body section into an upper section ( ) and a lower portion ( ). An engaging portion ( ) extends from a lower edge of the upper portion of the body section to the window and opposite to the arm sections. The pair of arm sections extends from opposite lateral sides of the base and each comprises a planar clamp ( ) at an upper end thereof. A palm ( ) extends outwardly from a front end of the clamp toward the engaging portion.

Contact for CPU socket

A CPU socket ( ) includes a non-conductive base ( ) defining an array of through holes ( ), a plurality of conductive contacts ( ) retained in corresponding through holes, a movable cover ( ) covering the base and an actuator member ( ) for moving the cover with respect to the base. The base forms a pair of latching members ( ) and each latching member has a body portion ( ) and a horn portion ( ) which define a first acute angle between. The cover forms a pair of hook members ( ) for engaging with the latching members of the base and each hook member has an elongate body ( ) and a hook portion ( ) which define a second acute angle equal to the first acute angel for fittingly latching the latching member of the base.

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