Patents Assigned to Semikron Elektronik GmbH & Co. KG
  • Publication number: 20220102227
    Abstract: An electronic power unit has a substrate with a perpendicular direction and a flat insulating molded body has a metal layer on a first main face and conductor tracks on a second main face. The substrate is in a non-positive locking or materially-bonded manner on a base plate of the electronic power unit. A first fastening device is on the base plate in a non-positive locking manner on a cooling device or a housing section has a second fastening device provided to arrange the substrate in a non-positive locking manner on a cooling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Valeriano Cardi, Stefan Hopfe, Maurilio Giovannantonio Muscolino, Matteo Santoro, Werner Obermaier
  • Publication number: 20220068768
    Abstract: A power electronic switching device has a substrate facing in a normal direction with a first and a second conductive track, and a power semiconductor component is arranged on the first conductive track by an electrically conductive connection. The power semiconductor component has a laterally surrounding edge and an edge region and a contact region on its first primary side facing away from the substrate, and with a three-dimensionally preformed insulation molding that has an overlap segment, a connection segment and an extension segment, wherein the overlap segment, starting from the edge partially overlaps the edge region of the power semiconductor component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: MICHAEL SCHATZ
  • Patent number: 11259448
    Abstract: A power electronics system has a housing, a cooling device, a power semiconductor module and a capacitor device, wherein a cooling section of a capacitor connection device is in thermally conducting contact with a cooling surface of the cooling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Bittner, Sandro Bulovic, Johannes Klier
  • Publication number: 20220046798
    Abstract: A production method and a power electronic connecting device for a power semiconductor module, wherein the connecting device is designed as a flexible film stack of a first and a second electrically conductive film and an electrically insulating film arranged therebetween, wherein at least one of the electrically conductive films is structured in itself and thus forms a plurality of film conductor tracks, wherein a first one of these film conductor tracks has, in a first section, a first average thickness and, in a second section, a second average thickness which is at least 10%, preferably at least 20%, smaller than the first average thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Düsel, Michael Schatz, Alexander Wehner, Ingo Bogen, Jürgen Steger
  • Publication number: 20210391229
    Abstract: A power electronic circuit device has a substrate, with multiple conductive tracks, and a power semiconductor component on these conductive tracks has a connection device with a metal sheet which electrically connects a contact pad of the power semiconductor component to a contact pad of a further power semiconductor component or a conductive track, and has a pressure device. The connection device includes a contact section for connection to an assigned contact pad and a connecting section arranged between the two contact sections. The pressure device includes a two-dimensional resilient pressure element that comprises pressure element sections, and first pressure element sections press with a first pressure surface section onto a contact section and second pressure element section presses with a second pressure surface section press onto the connecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Düsel, Harald Kobolla, Manuel Noderer, Alexander Wehner
  • Publication number: 20210336553
    Abstract: A power electronic arrangement has a plurality of single-phase power semiconductor modules and one multi-phase power semiconductor module, wherein each single-phase power semiconductor module has a first, at least frame-like housing, two first DC voltage terminal elements, a first AC voltage terminal element, first auxiliary terminal elements and a first switching device. The multi-phase power semiconductor module has a second, at least frame-like housing, two second DC voltage terminal elements, at least two second AC voltage terminal elements, second auxiliary terminal elements and a second switching device. The first and second DC voltage terminal elements each form a stack in a section of their length and on the terminal sections are designed identically. All the power semiconductor modules are arranged in a row in the direction of the normal vectors of the respective first longitudinal side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: JÜRGEN STEGER, Andreas MAUL
  • Publication number: 20210336357
    Abstract: A power electronic arrangement has a power converter module including a switching device with a substrate with a first and a second DC voltage conductor track and a first and a second DC voltage terminal element connected in an electrically conducting manner with the correct polarity, and has a first and a second DC voltage connection element. The first DC voltage terminal element is connected to the first DC voltage connection element in an electrically conducting manner with the correct polarity by means of a first materially-bonded connection. The second DC voltage terminal element is connected to the second DC voltage connection element in an electrically conducting manner with the correct polarity by means of a second materially-bonded connection. The second DC voltage terminal element or the second DC voltage connection element has a continuous welding cavity in the region of the first connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Jürgen STEGER
  • Publication number: 20210336552
    Abstract: A power converter module has a switching device with a substrate with a first and a second DC voltage conductor track and a first and a second DC voltage terminal element connected in an electrically conducting manner with the correct polarity, and having a first and a second DC voltage connection element. The first DC voltage terminal element is connected to the first DC voltage connection element in an electrically conducting manner with the correct polarity by means of a first materially-bonded connection, wherein the second DC voltage terminal element is connected to the second DC voltage connection element in an electrically conducting manner with the correct polarity by means of a second materially-bonded connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO., KG
    Inventors: Ingo BOGEN, Florian FINK, Jürgen STEGER, Harald KOBOLLA
  • Publication number: 20210336370
    Abstract: A power semiconductor module has a substrate, load and auxiliary connector elements, and a plastic body, which preferably is a housing or a housing frame and which has a channel. The channel being for the arrangement of a compensating portion of a press-fit contact element. The press-fit contact element has a press-fit portion, a compensating portion and a foot portion, the compensating portion being elastic in a longitudinal direction of the press-fit contact element and having at least two O-shaped sub-portions arranged in succession in the longitudinal direction and having a constriction arranged between two sub-portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: INGO BOGEN, Alexander WEHNER
  • Publication number: 20210267086
    Abstract: A power electronics submodule for mounting on a cooling device, has first and second surface sections next to one another, a substrate with a housing and includes a connection element, conductively connected by a contact to a track of the substrate and a connection section, arranged parallel to the substrate, the substrate arranged on the first surface section, the housing has a housing section, with a first main surface, arranged on the second surface section, and a second main surface, situated opposite the first main surface. In a non-mounted state a first main surface of the connection section is a first distance from the second main surface of the housing section in the housing region of a fastening device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ingo BOGEN, Alexander WEHNER
  • Patent number: 11101681
    Abstract: A power converter arrangement, for feeding a plurality of energy stores of electrically driven vehicles has a transformer having a first multiphase winding and a plurality of second multiphase windings. The first winding is embodied to be connected to a power supply system, in particular to a medium-voltage power supply system, and the second windings are each connected to a first connection of an associated power converter. The invention also presents an installation having such a power converter arrangement, wherein the transformer is arranged in a weatherproof enclosure and at least a plurality of power converters form parts of respective charging stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GmbH & CO KG
    Inventor: Bernhard Kalkmann
  • Publication number: 20210204442
    Abstract: A power electronics system has a housing, a cooling device, a power semiconductor module and a capacitor device, wherein a cooling section of a capacitor connection device is in theinially conducting contact with a cooling surface of the cooling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: ROLAND BITTNERR, Sandro BULOVIC, Johannes KLIER
  • Publication number: 20210185851
    Abstract: A power electronics system has a housing, a cooling device, a power semiconductor module and a capacitor device, and a cooling section of a capacitor connection device is in thermally conducting contact with a cooling surface of the cooling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: SANDRO BULOVIC
  • Publication number: 20210121962
    Abstract: A sintering press for producing a sintered connection between a first connection partner and a second connection partner disposed thereabove, having a suction-fixing installation for fixing the first connection partner, having a compression piece which is disposed above the suction-fixing installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: DOMINIC BIRKICHT, Juri Heinrich, Thomas Franz, Rudi Ludwig, Silke Kraft, Erik Michaelsen, Johannes Weickmann
  • Patent number: 10957560
    Abstract: The invention provides a pressure sintering method including: a) providing a sintered component arrangement with a workpiece carrier having recesses, with a substrate resting on a main surface of the workpiece carrier, wherein a sintering material to be sintered is arranged between the power semiconductor components and the substrate, a first power semiconductor component and a first region of the substrate arranged above the workpiece carrier in the normal direction of the first main side of the insulation layer flush with a first recess of the workpiece carrier, and a second power semiconductor component and a second region of the substrate are arranged above the workpiece carrier in the normal direction of the first main side of the insulation layer flush with a second recess of the workpiece carrier and a step of b) pressurizing the power semiconductor components and applying a temperature treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Wehner, Juergen Steger
  • Patent number: 10893602
    Abstract: A method for producing a power electronics system having a cooling device, a switching device, a terminal device, a capacitor device and a control device includes the following production steps: providing a cooling device with a plurality of first and second positioning cutouts; providing the switching device with a substrate and a first mounting device, which has first positioning devices; providing the terminal device, which is completely independent of the switching device, i.e. forms a dedicated component part or a dedicated assembly, with a second mounting device, which has second positioning devices; arranging the switching device on the cooling device, wherein the first positioning devices are arranged in the respectively assigned first positioning cutouts; arranging the terminal device on the cooling device, wherein the respective second positioning devices are arranged in the assigned second positioning cutouts; arranging the capacitor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Hunka, Marco Lederer, Rainer Popp, Stefan Weiss, Patrick Sturm
  • Patent number: D906240
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Frank, Stefan Weiss, Patrick Sturm, Thomas Ziegler, Marco Lederer, Thomas Hunka, Rainer Popp
  • Patent number: D921048
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Frank, Stefan Weiss, Patrick Sturm, Thomas Ziegler
  • Patent number: D925448
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Frank, Stefan Weiss, Patrick Sturm, Thomas Ziegler, Marco Lederer, Thomas Hunka, Rainer Popp
  • Patent number: D929462
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Frank, Stefan Weiss, Patrick Sturm, Thomas Ziegler