Electrical connector having a resilient cover

Abstract From the Canadian patent

This invention relates generally to improved electrical connectors for mounting integrated circuit devices to circuit boards and the like and, more particularly to electrical connectors having improved covers for pressing the substrates on which the integrated circuit devices are mounted against electrical contacts of the connectors to insure good electrical connection. In prior connectors the, integrated circuit device is initially positioned in an insulator base and then secured therein by a rigid insulator cover. The base includes a plurality of individual metal contacts, one for each conductor pad on the integrated circuit device substrate. The force with which each of the electrical …