Abstract: An assembly system includes an electronic component, a gripper, and a socket. The electronic component has sides and a top face, the top face has a top-face peripheral area and a top-face central area. The gripper has a gripper head, the gripper head being movable to an open and closed position. The gripper head has an extension configured to contact opposing sides of the electronic component when the gripper head is in the closed position, and a surface configured to contact the top-face peripheral area of the electronic component when the gripper head is in the closed position. The socket has a top peripheral surface. An insertion depth guide is associated with the gripper head and has a depth guide with a bottom surface configured to contact the top peripheral surface of the socket. A method for assembly is also included.

Abstract: An assembly system includes an electronic component, a gripper, and a socket. The electronic component has sides and a top face, the top face has a top-face peripheral area and a top-face central area. The gripper has a gripper head, the gripper head being movable to an open and closed position. The gripper head has an extension configured to contact opposing sides of the electronic component when the gripper head is in the closed position, and a surface configured to contact the top-face peripheral area of the electronic component when the gripper head is in the closed position. The socket has a top peripheral surface. An insertion depth guide is associated with the gripper head and has a depth guide with a bottom surface configured to contact the top peripheral surface of the socket. A method for assembly is also included.

Abstract: The binding features a riser 9 as shown in FIGS. 3, 4A and 4B. A thickness of riser 9 is of a measurement which will elevate base plate 2 above snowboard 4 sufficient to permit snowboard 4 to flex beneath and about base plate 2 without snowboard 4 top surface 6 contacting base plate 2 while a rider is maneuvering snowboard 4. Accordingly, the riser 9 of the binding minimizes, if not eliminates, the flattened apex of the flex arc of a snowboard which occurs with standard bindings, and, therefore, permits a rider to achieve a smoother ride and the more precise carves and turns which occur when the snowboard flexes along its complete and natural flex arc.Bail 53 of the binding as shown in FIG. 7 is a rod which is "U" shaped. The "U" bends 41 at about a forty-five degree angle at a midpoint of each of a stem of the "U", as more clearly shown in side view in FIG. 7. The stems of bail 53 are, preferably, threaded to threadingly engage with threads of threaded hole 66 of lug 51.