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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nasser Barabi, Lafayette, CA (US);
Siamak Jonaidi, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cerprobe Corporation, Hayward, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/362 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/362 ;
Abstract
A cover assembly for IC chip has a lid portion and a retractable chip depressor member extendable from the underside of the lid portion along the lid's z-axis. When the cover assembly is mounted over the chip cavity of an IC socket and is properly indexed in the x-y plane of the socket, the retractable chip depressor member is retractable advanced along the z-axis of the lid portion to contact and depress the chip in the socket's chip cavity by a force that is parallel to the z-axis of the chip cavity and that is normal to the IC chip.