ATTREZZATURA PER LA TRASLAZIONE DI SEGNALI CON SPINE CIECHE PER L'APPLICAZIONE DI FORZA

摘要

A translator fixture for a printed circuit board tester has a pattern of test probes on a base upon which the translator fixture is mounted. The translator fixture includes a plurality of essentially parallel and vertically spaced apart rigid translator plates supported in a fixed position in the translator fixture. Selected patterns of holes are aligned in the translator plates for containing and supporting translator pins extending through the translator plates and for positioning the translator pins for contacting test points under pressure on a printed circuit board supported in an essentially horizontal position between the translator plates. The pins translate electrical test signals between the test points on the printed circuit board and the test probes on the base of the tester. The fixture includes a plurality of blind pins positioned in a top plate of the fixture for non-electrically applying a balancing force to the printed circuit board. The blind pins are positioned in blind holes in the top plate adjacent a surface of the printed circuit board at locations where no test points are located and opposite to a surface on the printed circuit board having the translator pins applying pressure to the test points.