Printed circuit board/integrated circuit socket combination

Claim 1

In combination: a printed circuit board having printed circuits on at least one surface thereof and having at least one opening therein, and a socket element for an integrated circuit unit fitted into said opening in press-fit with the bore thereof, said socket element having at least one row of female conductors on one side for receiving the terminal pins of an integrated circuit unit, and having at least one row of elongated terminal pins on the other side thereof electrically connected to corresponding ones of said female conductors, said socket element having at least one island of resilient plastic material surrounding the row of said elongated terminal pins and displaced inwardly from the peripheral edges of said socket element, said island being received in said opening in said circuit board in press-fit with the bore thereof, said printed circuits on said printed circuit board including a first set of interconnected conductive power strips, and a second set of interconnected conductive ground strips, and further including clips fitted over selected ones of said elongated terminal pins and electrically connected selectively to said power strips and to said ground strips.