Tool for use with a ZIF PGA socket

Details Tool for use with a ZIF PGA socket Tool for use with a ZIF PGA socket

1990-09-26

1991-10-01

Hall, Carl E.

Metal working

Means to assemble or disassemble

Means to assemble electrical device

29751, 29764, 72452, 81128, H01R 4304

Patent

active

050521012

ABSTRACT:
A PGA socket (40) and a tool (132) for opening and closing the socket (40) is disclosed. The socket (40) includes a base housing (42) having contact elements (46) disposed in cavities (48). The contact elements (46) include laterally extending cantilever beams (90) which are bent out of the plane of the contact elements (40) to provide a force-free insertion of the leads (120) on the PGA (122). The socket (40) further includes a cover (44) slidably mounted on the housing (42) which when moved, drives the leads (120) into electrical engagement with the cantilever beams (90). The tool (132) includes a pair of spaced-apart jaws (154,156) with one (152) being fixed and the other (156) moveable towards the fixed jaw (154). The tool (132) is placed over the socket (40) with the jaws (154,156) on respective sides of the cover (44) so that as the one jaw (156) moves toward the other (154), it (156) pushes the cover (44) which moves the leads (120) either into or out of electrical engagement with the cantilever beams (90).

REFERENCES:
patent: 4483056 (1984-11-01), Schwalm et al.
patent: 4571975 (1986-02-01), Pawloski et al.

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