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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2000
Wayne K. Pfaff, Irving, TX (US);
Wayne K. Pfaff, Irving, TX (US);
Plastronics Socket Partners, L.P., Irving, TX (US);
Abstract
Ball grid array devices are mounted inaburn-in and testsocket which has a top surfacesockets which have top surfaceswith windows for theball terminalsterminal ballsdepending from the ballgradgridarray device. Contact fingers mounted on the base of the socket extend through a bending plate and into the windows from the opposite side of the top surface. When the bending plate is moved laterally with respect to the top surface, the ends of the contact members are moved into contact with theball terminalsterminal balls. The ends of the contact members are urged into contact with theball terminalsterminal ballsbetween the center of theballterminal balland the surface of the ball grid array device, thus retaining the device in the socket.