US Patent Issued to YOKOWO on April 7 for "Socket, jig, socket maintenance set, and disassembly method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,146, issued on April 7, was assigned to YOKOWO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Socket, jig, socket maintenance set, and disassembly method" was invented by Kohei Amada (Tomioka, Japan), Yuki Matsui (Tomioka, Japan), Yoshinori Shirai (Tomioka, Japan), Yuta Yamato (Tomioka, Japan), Suguru Matsui (Tomioka, Japan) and Taku Kitsunai (Tomioka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A socket includes a pin block configured to hold a contact probe array, and a pin plate that removably engages with the pin block. The pin block includes a curved portion located outside the contact probe array and convex toward an inside of the contact probe array. The pin pl...