Burn-in socket for gull wing integrated circuit package

Claim 1

An electrical connector for the electrical interconnection of an integrated circuit package having lead portions extending along side edges thereof, to traces on a printed circuit board, the connector comprising: an insulative housing member having a lower base portion for mounting on a printed circuit board, the housing having sidewalls upstanding from the lower base portion which forms a nest for the integrated circuit package; a plurality of electrical terminals having portions extending through the base portion for interconnection to the traces on the printed circuit board and contact portions which are disposed in the nest for interconnection to the integrated circuit package leads; a lid portion which is disposed adjacent to an open upper face of the housing being movable towards and away from the base portion, the lid portion having a plurality of camming openings extending upwardly from a lower surface of the lid, the downward movement of the lid portion causing a camming surface of the lid portion to contact the terminals thereby forcing the terminal contact portions outwardly, from a center of the connector base portion, for insertion of the integrated circuit package, each terminal having a camming portion received within a single camming opening in the lid, each camming opening receiving the camming portion of only one terminal, wherein the camming surface is defined as a downwardly and outwardly facing surface within the camming opening, and wherein the camming surface is at an acute angle relative to vertical, and wherein the camming portions are located vertically above the terminal contact portions.