Abstract: A connector for mounting and electrically connecting a chip carrier unit in an electrical circuit has a plurality of electrical contacts secured in openings in the bottom of an electrically insulating body to permit cantilever spring deflection of the contacts in accommodating a chip carrier unit within the connector between the contacts. The contacts comprise wire members of round cross section each having an opposite end bent to be slidable along a narrow line of engagement with an inclined ramp surface on an adjacent side wall of the connector body. Each contact has a bowed portion intermediate the contact ends which is bowed away from the adjacent ramp surface to slidably engage terminals on the chip carrier unit as the unit is inserted into the connector.

Abstract: An improved circuit panel connector comprises an electrically insulating body having a plurality of openings extending through the body and has electrical contacts such as screw machine contact assemblies movably mounted in the respective body openings so that posts extend from the openings at one side of the body and terminal entry portions of the contacts are accessible at an opposite side of the body. A plate having a plurality of protuberances formed therein is disposed over the opposite connector body side with the protuberances fitted into the terminal entry portions of the contacts for spacing the movably mounted contacts relative to each other in the connector body openings. A polyimide tape is adhesively and detachably secured to the body over the plate for holding the plate on the body and for sealing the body openings. The contact posts are inserted into corresponding openings in a circuit panel and soldered to circuit paths on the panel.