Short-wire bed-of-nails test fixture

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A test fixture for automatic testing equipment wherein a short wire interface assembly permits the interface assembly to be hard wired to a test head assembly with relatively short interconnect wires. The interface assembly includes a base cover plate having a plurality of cavities formed therein a, plurality of individual interface strips having flexible vacuum seals affixed thereto and interface contacts disposed therethrough, and a plurality of floating captive contacts disposed in the base cover plate to provide a mechanical and electrical interface between the interface contacts and spring-loaded probes electrically connected to the ATE. The individual interface strips are readily …