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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1983
Ronald E Senor, North Attleboro, MA (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A connector or socket for detachably mounting an integrated circuit unit on a printed circuit board has single beam contact members precisely located and secured in respective recesses in an electrically insulating body. The contact members are formed of a strip material and each has a spring beam part extending up from a base to loop over the base and a post part extending down from the opposite end of the base. The connector body recesses are open at their bottom end to receive the loop contact portions therein and have a integrally formed stop member projecting into the recesses at their bottom end which permits the beam part of the contact members to pass by during assembly of a contact member into its recess and then serves to limit downward movement of i.c. terminals and isolate the distal end portion of the i.c. terminals from solder material.