ELECTRONIC COMPONENT SOCKET

• US 20120220169A1
• Filed: 02/22/2012
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: UOZUMI, Takeki, TAKAI, Daisuke, MURATA, Shinji
• Application Number:
  US13/401,946
• Publication Number:
  US 20120220169A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/660
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/714 with contacts abutting directly the printed circuit; Button contacts therefore provided on the printed circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/73 connecting to other rigid printed circuits or like structures

Abstract

An electronic component socket includes a housing having a housing portion surrounded with a side wall and a bottom wall; multiple terminals to be disposed so as to pass through the bottom wall of the housing; and a metal plate configured to form at least a portion of the bottom wall of the housing, having multiple through-holes containable with the multiple terminals; with the plurality of terminals including a contact portion contactable with an electrode of an electronic component containable with the housing, and a connection portion connectable with a round of a substrate allocatable on the opposite side of the housing of the bottom wall; and with the metal plate being embedded in the housing so that a portion thereof is exposed.

Claims

1. An electronic component socket comprising:

a housing having a housing portion surrounded with a side wall and a bottom wall;

a plurality of terminals to be disposed so as to pass through said bottom wall of said housing; and

a metal plate configured to form at least a portion of said bottom wall of said housing, having a plurality of through-holes containable with said plurality of terminals;

wherein said plurality of terminals include

a contact portion contactable with an electrode of an electronic component containable with said housing, and

a connection portion connectable with a round of a substrate allocatable on the opposite side of said housing of said bottom wall;

and wherein said metal plate is embedded in said housing so that a portion thereof is exposed.

2. The electronic component socket according to claim 1, wherein a portion of said metal plate is bent and embedded in the side wall of said housing.

3. The electronic component socket according to claim 1, wherein an opening is provided to a central portion of said metal plate embedded in said bottom wall, and a protrusion extended toward said housing portion side is provided to the circumference of this opening.

4. The electronic component socket according to claim 1, wherein a slit is formed in a portion where said metal plate of said side wall is not disposed.

5. The electronic component socket according to claim 4, wherein said slit is formed on both sides of said side wall in one of a pair of said side walls facing.

6. The electronic component socket according to claim 1, wherein at least a part of said terminals are covered with an insulating resin;

and wherein said insulating resin portion is disposed so as to be fitted into the through-holes of said metal plate.

7. The electronic component socket according to claim 6, wherein a terminal unit is formed by covering and linking some of said plurality of terminals with an insulating resin so that each of the terminals is not electrically connected.

8. The electronic component socket according to claim 7, wherein the through-holes of said metal plate are provided so that said two or more terminals are housed;

and wherein said terminal unit is formed with a plurality of terminals so as to be housed in a plurality of said through-holes;

and wherein a groove portion is formed in said insulating resin portion for each of said two or more terminals;

and wherein a partitioning portion for partitioning said through-holes is provided to said groove portion at the time of implementation of said terminal unit as to said through-holes.

9. The electronic component socket according to claim 7, wherein a protruding or recessed portion for positioning said terminal unit is formed in the inner walls of the through-holes of said metal plate.

10. The electronic component socket according to claim 1, wherein said metal plate is made up of a plurality of metal materials, and at least one of said plurality of metal materials is bent and embedded within said side wall.

11. The electronic component socket according to claim 10, wherein at least one of said plurality of metal materials is embedded extended toward the upward side within said side wall, and another one is embedded extended toward the downward side within said side wall.

12. The electronic component socket according to claim 1, wherein said metal plate is made up of a plurality of metal materials, and said protrusion is formed as to at least one of said plurality of metal materials.

13. The electronic component socket according to claim 1, wherein said metal plate is made up of a plurality of metal materials, a metal material to be embedded within said side wall is disposed most downward, a metal material where said protrusion is formed is disposed most upward, and at least another metal material is disposed therebetween.

14. The electronic component socket according to claim 13, wherein a hole portion is provided to the central portion of a portion embedded in said bottom wall of said most downward metal material, and a downward protrusion extended toward said substrate side is formed in the circumference of said hole portion.

15. The electronic component socket according to claim 1, wherein a portion where said metal plate is embedded is embedded within said housing by insert molding.

16. The electronic component socket according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of terminals is taken as a signal terminal, said plurality of terminals adjacent to this signal terminal are taken as ground terminals, and said ground terminals electrically conduct with said metal plate via electroconducting means.

17. The electronic component socket according to claim 16, wherein said electroconducting means electrically conduct by protruding portions provided extended from the inner walls of said through-holes of said metal plate coming into contact with said ground terminals.

18. The electronic component socket according to claim 17, wherein said metal plate is made up of a plurality of metal materials, and said protruding portion is provided to at least one of said metal materials.

19. The electronic component socket according to claim 16, wherein said electroconducting means electrically conduct by ground terminal protruding portions provided extended from said ground terminals coming into contact with the inner walls of said through-holes of said metal plate.

20. The electronic component socket according to claim 19, wherein a signal terminal protruding portion extended from said signal terminal is provided to said signal terminal;

and wherein an avoidance portion configured so as not to electrically conduct with said signal terminal protruding portion is provided to said metal plate.

21. The electronic component socket according to claim 16, wherein, with said plurality of terminals, said signal terminals and said ground terminals are alternately disposed.

22. The electronic component socket according to claim 16, wherein at least a part of said terminals are covered with an insulating resin;

and wherein said insulating resin portion is disposed by being fitted into the through-holes of said metal plate.

23. The electronic component socket according to claim 22, wherein a terminal unit is formed by covering and linking some of said plurality of terminals with an insulating resin so that each of the terminals are not electrically connected.

24. The electronic component socket according to claim 23, wherein said through-holes are made up of a plurality of divided through-holes divided for at least every two terminals of a plurality of terminals provided to said terminal unit;

and wherein one of at least said two terminals provided to said divided through-holes is said ground terminal.