Intel Corporation

Robert R Martinson

Tieyu Zheng

Thomas G Ruttan

Alin Ila

Mandy G Mistakawi

Yupeng Li

Mandy Mistkawi

Apparatus including a body as an intermediary between a device and a printed circuit board, the body including a contact area defined by a plurality of openings each to accommodate a contact therethrough and an alignment feature adjacent the contact area and protruding from a plane defined by the contact area, wherein a surface of the alignment feature includes a friction-reducing material. A method including contacting an alignment feature of a socket with a friction-reducing material. Apparatus and system including a body as an intermediary between a device and a printed circuit board; a plurality of contacts each disposed through a contact area of the body and oriented to deflect a device in a first direction; and a load plate coupled to the body and configured to apply an actuation force on a device in a different second direction. A method including inserting a device into a socket.

Lateral force countering load mechanism for LGA sockets

A land grid array socket and a microelectronic assembly including the socket. The socket comprises: a housing; an array of through-contacts on the housing; a solder ball standoff element on a PCB side of the housing; and a seating plane standoff element on a package side of the housing, the seating plane standoff element being aligned with the solder ball standoff element to form a loading force support element therewith.

Socket for land grid array package

Embodiments of the invention provide single loading mechanism that both pushes a semiconductor package against a socket and pushes a cooling solution against the semiconductor package. This loading mechanism may take up less motherboard real estate than if two different attachment and loading mechanisms were used.

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Hillsboro, OR, United States of America

Robert R Martinson