For Devices Adapted For Rectifying, Amplifying, Oscillating, Or Switching, Capacitors, Or Resistors With At Least One Potential-jump Barrier Or Surface Barrier (epo) Patents (Class 257/E23.071)
  • Patent number: 11810775
    Abstract: A method includes disposing a semiconductor die between a first high voltage isolation carrier and a second high voltage isolation carrier, disposing a first molding material in a space between the semiconductor die and the first high voltage isolation carrier, and disposing a conductive spacer between the semiconductor die and the second high voltage isolation carrier. The method further includes encapsulating the first molding material and the conductive spacer with a second molding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yusheng Lin, Jerome Teysseyre
  • Patent number: 11515237
    Abstract: Various embodiments may provide a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package may include a first electrical component, a second electrical component, a first heat sink, and a second heat sink bonded to a first package interconnection component and a second package interconnection component. The first package interconnection component and the second package interconnection component may provide lateral and vertical interconnections in the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Gongyue Tang, Kazunori Yamamoto, Xiaowu Zhang
  • Patent number: 8432030
    Abstract: A power electronic package includes: first and second high thermal conductivity insulating non-planar substrates; and multiple semiconductor chips and electronic components between the substrates. Each substrate includes multiple electrical insulator layers and patterned electrical conductor layers connecting to the electronic components, and further includes multiple raised regions or posts, which are bonded together so that the substrates are mechanically and electrically connected. The number, arrangement, and shape of the raised regions or posts are adjusted to have mechanical separation between the substrates. The electrical conductor layers are separated and isolated one another so that multiple electric circuits are provided on at least one of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, University of Cambridge, The University of Sheffield
    Inventors: Rajesh Kumar Malhan, C Mark Johnson, Cyril Buttay, Jeremy Rashid, Florin Udrea
  • Patent number: 7999369
    Abstract: A power electronic package includes: first and second high thermal conductivity insulating non-planar substrates; and multiple semiconductor chips and electronic components between the substrates. Each substrate includes multiple electrical insulator layers and patterned electrical conductor layers connecting to the electronic components, and further includes multiple raised regions or posts, which are bonded together so that the substrates are mechanically and electrically connected. The number, arrangement, and shape of the raised regions or posts are adjusted to have mechanical separation between the substrates. The electrical conductor layers are separated and isolated one another so that multiple electric circuits are provided on at least one of the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, University of Cambridge, The University of Sheffield
    Inventors: Rajesh Kumar Malhan, C. Mark Johnson, Cyril Buttay, Jeremy Rashid, Florin Udrea
  • Patent number: 7989918
    Abstract: A method and tamper detection circuit for implementing tamper and anti-reverse engineering evident detection in a semiconductor chip, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. A capacitor is formed with the semiconductor chip including the circuitry to be protected. A change in the capacitor value results responsive to the semiconductor chip being thinned, which is detected and a tamper-detected signal is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gerald Keith Bartley, Todd Alan Christensen, Paul Eric Dahlen, John Edward Sheets, II
  • Patent number: 7989935
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a voltage regulator is disclosed that does not have an external output condenser for phase compensation. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip that includes a voltage regulator, a power supply input terminal, a ground terminal, and an output terminal for outputting a produced constant voltage; and a phase compensation condenser that is connected between the output terminal and the ground terminal for phase compensation of the voltage regulator. The semiconductor chip and the phase compensation condenser are accommodated in a single package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kohzoh Itoh
  • Patent number: 7960211
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices that contain a system in package and methods for making such packages are described. The semiconductor device with a system in package (SIP) contains a first IC die, passive components, and discrete devices that are contained in a lower level of the package. The SIP also contains a second IC die that is vertically separated from the first IC die by an array of metal interposers, thereby isolating the components of the first IC die from the components of the second IC die. Such a configuration provides more functionality within a single semiconductor package while also reducing or eliminating local heating in the package. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Manolito Galera, Leocadio Morona Alabin
  • Patent number: 7944035
    Abstract: A semiconductor die has devices such as MOSgated devices, diodes and the like formed into the top and bottom surfaces of the die. One terminal of each of the devices terminal in the interior center of the die and a common contact is made to the interior center of the die at one edge of the die. Various packages for the die having a reduced foot print on a support substrate are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: International Rectifier Corporation
    Inventor: Igor Bol
  • Patent number: 7692293
    Abstract: A semiconductor switching module includes a power semiconductor element that is embodied in planar technology. In at least one embodiment, the power semiconductor element is provided with a base layer, a copper layer, and at least one power semiconductor chip that is mounted on the copper layer, and another electrically conducting layer which covers at least one load terminal of the power semiconductor chip. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, devices are provided for safely connecting the load terminal to a load circuit. The devices are configured such that a contact area thereof presses in a planar manner onto the electrically conducting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Apfelbacher, Norbert Reichenbach, Johann Seitz
  • Patent number: 7679182
    Abstract: A power module includes a heat radiation layer having the first main surface and the second main surface of reverse side opposed to the first main surface, an insulation layer disposed on the first main surface of a radiation layer, a wiring portion of current circuit disposed on the insulation layer and a plurality of switching elements disposed on the insulation layer and electrically connected to the wiring portion of current circuit. A plurality of external terminals are electrically connected to the wiring portions of current circuit. Furthermore, the module has a resin sealing all of the insulation layer, a wiring portion for current circuit, switching elements and the first main surface of the radiation layer, and a resin sealing a portion of the second main surface of the radiation layer with the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideto Yoshinari, Yujiro Kaneko, Masahide Harada, Nobutake Tsuyuno, Shinichi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 7612439
    Abstract: A composite semiconductor package is disclosed. The package includes a lead frame having first and second die bonding pads, the first and second die bonding pads having a large lateral separation therebetween, a first device bonded to the first die bonding pad, a second device bonded to the second die bonding pad, a plurality of first leads coupled to the first die bonding pad, a plurality of second leads coupled to the second die bonding pad, and an encapsulant covering the lead frame, the first and second devices and at least a portion of the first and second pluralities of leads. The package may be a TSSOP-8 composite package having a common drain MOSFET pair and an IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited
    Inventors: Xiaotian Zhang, Argo Chang, James Lee, Ryan Huang, Kai Liu, Ming Sun
  • Patent number: 7569920
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a vertical semiconductor power transistor and a further semiconductor device arranged on the transistor to form a stack. The first vertical semiconductor power transistor has a semiconductor body having a first side and a second side and device structures, at least one first electrode positioned on the first side and at least one second electrode positioned on the second side. The semiconductor body further has at least one electrically conductive via. The via extends from the first side to the second side of the semiconductor body and is galvanically isolated from the device structures of the semiconductor body and from the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Ralf Otremba, Klaus Schiess
  • Patent number: 7466012
    Abstract: A power semiconductor package that includes a semiconductor die having at least two power electrodes and a conductive clip electrically and mechanically coupled to each power electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: International Rectifier Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Standing, Robert J Clarke
  • Publication number: 20070228412
    Abstract: A low voltage triggering silicon controlled rectifier (LVTSCR) is disclosed. The LVTSCR utilizes an added resistor disposed in a second doped region between the anode of the LVTSCR and the emitter of the parasitical bipolar PNP transistor to increase the holding voltage thereof when the LVTSCR is triggered. The LVTSCR includes a semiconductor substrate with a first conductive type and a gate. The semiconductor substrate includes a first doped region with a second conductive type, a second doped region with the first conductive type, a third doped region with the second conductive type, a fourth doped region with the second conductive type and a fifth doped region with the first conductive type. The gate is applied with a lower triggering voltage to trigger the LVTSCR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: ADVANCED ANALOG TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Sheng Yang, Cheng Fang
  • Patent number: 7217597
    Abstract: An improved semiconductor die stacking scheme is provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method of stacking a plurality of semiconductor die is provided. In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention a multiple die semiconductor assembly is provided. Each embodiment relates generally to a stacked semiconductor die assembly including a substrate, first and second semiconductor dice including stacking surfaces and active surfaces, a decoupling capacitor, and one or more conductive lines connecting elements of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Salman Akram