Abstract: The assembly of an electronic package, a socket which holds the package, an electrically-conductive heat sink placed over and around the package, and an EMI shield for minimizing EMI leakage. The shield is a metal frame extending around the socket and package, and secured to it by locking tabs extending inwardly from the frame to detents on the edges of the socket. The socket contains double-wall structures spaced along its periphery which support the frame when it is on the socket, and the heat sink is provided with depending skirts which extend downwardly on all sides of the socket and package, to contribute additional EMI shielding. The sink is held to the socket by resilient retainers, each secured at one end to an upper surface of the heat sink and extending downwardly through the heat sink to be releasably secured to latching detents on the edges of the socket, by means of latches located inside the frame.

Abstract: Shielding for a socket of an electronics package comprises, a frame (24) with sidewalls (26,30), solder tails (34) along the sidewalls (26,30), resilient cantilever beams (32) for electrically engaging skirts (56) of a heat sink (18), and a retainer (20) having bars (62) covering openings in the heat sink (18) and plates covering cut outs (28) of the shielding device (12).

Abstract: An electrical rotary switch having a housing formed of an electrically insulative material and including a plurality of fixed electrically conductive contacts therein. A rotatable contact is arranged to be rotated into a plurality of positions and includes electrically conductive means to electrically interconnect selected ones of the fixed contacts depending upon the rotational position of the contactor. A detent mechanism is located in the housing and comprises a generally planar, frame-like plate formed of a resilient material and having an opposed pair of elongated arms extending generally parallel to each other and interconnected adjacent their respective ends by cantilever arms. The cantilever arms form tapering cam surfaces which are adapted to engage diametrically opposed recesses in the rotatable contactor to establish the various rotational positions of the rotatable contactor. The decent plate is located within a recess in the housing.