Connector alignment assembly for an electronic memory module tester

US5973285A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Computer Service Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Arnold Siegfried Dietrich · Starnberg, DE
• Erwin Heinrich · Gauting, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 26, 1997
• Grant date: Oct 26, 1999
• Expiry date: Nov 26, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R31/2893
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A connector alignment assembly is provided for aligning memory modules in a test position relative to a memory module tester. An automatic feeder receives, stages and then dispenses the electronic memory modules onto a conveyor, one at a time. The conveyor moves the electronic memory modules from the feeder to a test station. A contact plunger is used to push tester contacts against surface contacts of the electronic memory module to electrically connect the electronic memory module to test circuitry. The connector alignment assembly includes two alignment pins which are mounted to the contact plunger, such that when the contact plunger is moved to press the test contacts against the surface contacts, the alignment pins are moved into two alignment holes of the electronic memory module. Entry of the two alignment pins into the alignment holes aligns the electronic memory module with the test contacts, such that the test contacts register with the surface contacts wherein movement of the contact plunger to press the test contacts against corresponding ones of the surface contacts of the electronic memory module electrically connects the electronic memory module to the test circuitry…