Device holder, inner unit, outer unit, and tray

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9874605-B2
Application number	US-201514659580-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 16, 2015
Priority date	Mar 25, 2014
Publication date	Jan 23, 2018
Grant date	Jan 23, 2018

Abstract

To electrically connect a device under test mounted on a device holder and a socket of a test apparatus with accuracy. Provided is a device holder that retains a device, the device holder including: an inner unit that mounts the device; and an outer unit that retains the inner unit such that the inner unit is relatively movable, wherein the inner unit switches whether to lock the outer unit relative to the inner unit or to release the lock. Also, the inner unit and the outer unit of the device holder are provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device holder that retains a device, the device holder comprising:
an inner unit that mounts the device, the inner unit including:
a release button, and
an insert latch; and

an outer unit that surrounds an outer circumference of the inner unit and retains the inner unit such that the inner unit is relatively movable, wherein
the insert latch that grasps a portion of the outer unit, and releases the portion of the outer unit in response to the release button being pushed,
the inner unit switches whether to lock the outer unit relative to the inner unit or to release the lock, and
the inner unit switches whether to grasp the outer unit or release the grasping.

2. The device holder according to claim 1 , wherein the inner unit has a lever that, when the release button is pushed, transmits a pushed force to the insert latch.

3. The device holder according to claim 2 , wherein the inner unit has a biasing section that, when the release button is not pushed, biases the lever so as to grasp the outer unit.

4. The device holder according to claim 2 , wherein when the release button is pushed from a side to which the device is mounted, the insert latch moves in an opposite direction to the direction of the pushing.

5. The device holder according to claim 2 , wherein
the outer unit has a first fixed member and a second fixed member fixed by the insert latch, and
the insert latch includes:
an extending section that extends from the lever and between the first fixed member and the second fixed member; and
a latch main body that is provided opposite to the lever relative to the first fixed member and the second fixed member, and, when the outer unit is to be locked relative to the inner unit, is pressed against the first fixed member and the second fixed member.

6. A tray that mounts a plurality of devices, the tray comprising the device holder according to claim 1 corresponding to each of the plurality of devices.

7. A device holder that retains a device, the device holder comprising:
an inner unit that mounts the device, the inner unit including a device latch that grasps a side portion of the device;
an outer unit that surrounds an outer circumference of the inner unit and retains the inner unit such that the inner unit is relatively movable;
a release button; and
an insert latch that grasps a portion of the outer unit, and releases the portion of the outer unit in response to the release button being pushed, wherein
the inner unit switches whether to lock the outer unit relative to the inner unit or to release the lock.

8. The device holder according to claim 7 , wherein the device latch fixes the device by pressing a side portion of a first surface of the device, the first surface being opposite to the inner unit.

9. The device holder according to claim 8 , wherein the device latch: includes a rotation axis that is parallel to a side of the first surface of the device; and presses a side portion of the first surface by rotating about the rotation axis.

10. The device holder according to claim 9 , wherein the device latch includes a cover that covers a part of the rotation axis and the device latch.

11. The device holder according to claim 10 , wherein, when not retaining the device, a tip of the device latch that includes a contact portion to contact the device fits a surface of the cover on a side of the device latch.

12. The device holder according to claim 10 , wherein an edge of the cover on a side of the device supports a second surface of the device in a state that the device latch fixes the device, the second surface being opposite to the first surface.

13. A device holder that retains a device, the device holder comprising:
an inner unit that mounts the device, the inner unit including a slope face formed by chamfering a corner thereof that faces an inner catch section that grasps the inner unit, and contacts, at the slope face, the inner catch section;
an outer unit that surrounds an outer circumference of the inner unit and retains the inner unit such that the inner unit is relatively movable;
a release button; and
an insert latch that grasps a portion of the outer unit, and releases the portion of the outer unit in response to the release button being pushed, wherein
the inner unit switches whether to lock the outer unit relative to the inner unit or to release the lock.

14. A device holder that retains a device, the device holder comprising:
an inner unit that mounts the device;
an outer unit that surrounds an outer circumference of the inner unit and retains the inner unit such that the inner unit is relatively movable, the outer unit including a pin insertion section to which a pin provided to an outer catch section to grasp the outer unit is inserted;
a release button; and
an insert latch that grasps a portion of the outer unit, and releases the portion of the outer unit in response to the release button being pushed, wherein
the inner unit switches whether to lock the outer unit relative to the inner unit or to release the lock.

15. A device holder that retains a device, the device holder comprising:
an inner unit that mounts the device;
an outer unit that surrounds an outer circumference of the inner unit and retains the inner unit such that the inner unit is relatively movable;
a release button; and
an insert latch that grasps a portion of the outer unit, and releases the portion of the outer unit in response to the release button being pushed, wherein
the inner unit switches whether to lock the outer unit relative to the inner unit or to release the lock,
the device holder is provided in a tray in a state that the device holder is movable, and
the outer unit has, at a nook of a frame, a notch to be supported by the tray from a side to which the device is mounted.

16. An apparatus comprising:
an inner unit that mounts a device,
the inner unit comprising:
a release button; and
an insert latch that grasps a portion of an outer unit, and releases the portion of the outer unit in response to the release button being pushed,
wherein the outer unit surrounds an outer circumference of the inner unit and retains the inner unit such that the inner unit is relatively movable; and the inner unit switches whether to lock the outer unit relative to the inner unit or to release the lock.

17. An apparatus comprising:
an outer unit that surrounds an outer circumference of an inner unit and retains the inner unit, the inner unit mounting a device such that the inner unit is relatively movable,
wherein the inner unit switches whether to lock the outer unit relative to the inner unit or to release the lock and includes a release button and an insert latch that grasps a portion of the outer unit and releases the portion of the outer unit in response to the release button being pushed.

Assignees

• Advantest Corp

Inventors

• Aizawa Mitsunori
• Yamada Yuya

Classifications

• G01R31/2601

  Apparatus or methods therefor (G01R31/2607, G01R31/2642 take precedence) · CPC title

• G01R31/2887 Primary

  involving moving the probe head or the IC under test; docking stations (moving single probes G01R1/06705; moving individual probes in multiple probes G01R1/07392) · CPC title

• G01R1/0433

  Sockets for IC's or transistors · CPC title

• G01R31/2891

  related to sensing or controlling of force, position, temperature (G01R31/2874 takes precedence; sensing of force G01L; sensing of position G01B, G01D; sensing of temperature G01K; controlling in general G05) · CPC title

• G01R31/2893

  Handling, conveying or loading, e.g. belts, boats, vacuum fingers (G01R31/2867 takes precedence; handling semiconductor devices or wafers during manufacture or treatment H10P72/00) · CPC title