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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1997
Filed:
May. 18, 1995
Noriyuki Matsuoka, Yokohama, JP;
Kazumi Uratsuji, Tokyo, JP;
Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An IC socket includes a socket body, an IC package receiving portion formed in the socket body and adapted to receive an IC package therein, a plurality of contacts arranged in array along the IC package receiving portion, and a contact opening/closing cover overlying the socket body. The contacts are displaced between a position for contacting leads of the IC package and a position for removing the contacting relation upon upward and downward movements of the contact opening/closing cover. The IC socket further includes a positioning member which is displaced in the same direction as the contacts in upon the upward and downward movements of the contact opening/closing cover, so as to regulate the portions of the contacts in the neighborhood of a contacting portion of each contact.