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.

Abstract: A power semiconductor module has a substrate, with power semiconductor components, and a DC voltage connecting device, which has a first and a second flat conductor connecting element and at least one first metal layer connecting element and at least one second metal layer connecting element, wherein the second flat conductor connecting element is arranged spaced apart in the normal direction of the first flat conductor connecting element from the first flat conductor connecting element, the first flat conductor connecting element is electrically connected by the first metal layer connecting element and the second flat conductor connecting element is electrically connected by the second metal layer connecting element to the metal layer, the first flat conductor connecting element has a flat conductor end section and a flat conductor connection section arranged between the one first metal layer connecting element and the flat conductor end section.

Abstract: A pressing device for indirectly or directly applying pressure to power-semiconductor components of a power-semiconductor module, having a pressing plate, having a pressing nub element which is formed from an elastic material and which has a pressing nub plate and pressing nubs projecting therefrom, and having a receiving device for receiving the pressing nub element, which receiving device has a base plate provided with recesses, wherein the recesses run through the base plate, wherein the pressing nub plate is arranged on the base plate and the pressing nubs run through the recesses and, on the main side of the base plate facing away from the pressing nub plate, project beyond this main side of the base plate, and wherein the pressing nub plate is arranged between the pressing plate and the base plate.

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.

Abstract: A power semiconductor module includes a flexible first substrate and a flexible second substrate and a first and second power semiconductor switch arranged between the first and second substrate. The first substrate has an electrically conductive first metal layer facing towards the power semiconductor switches, an electrically conductive second metal layer and an electrically non-conductive first insulation film arranged between the first and second metal layer. The second substrate has an electrically non-conductive second insulation film and a third metal layer arranged on the second insulation film. The first and second power semiconductor switch are electrically interconnected by the first and second substrate to form a half-bridge circuit.

Abstract: A power semiconductor module includes a substrate, having power semiconductor components, further including a housing element, and having a DC voltage connection device having a flat lead connection device and a second flat lead connection element, wherein the flat lead connection device has a first flat lead connection element encased by a plastic element of the flat lead connection device and materially bonded to the plastic element, wherein a connection section of the first flat lead connection element projects from the plastic element, a connection section of the second flat lead connection element is arranged on the plastic element or is at least partly enclosed by the plastic element and bonded to the plastic element so that a section of the plastic element is between the first flat lead connection element and the connection section of the second flat lead connection element.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abstract: A submodule and an assembly include a switching device having a substrate, and printed conductors arranged thereupon. The submodule incorporates a first and a second DC voltage printed conductor, to which a first and a second DC voltage terminal element are connected in an electrically conductive manner, and an AC voltage printed conductor, to which an AC voltage terminal element is connected in an electrically conductive manner. The submodule further comprises an insulating moulding, which encloses the switching device in a frame-type arrangement. The first DC voltage terminal element, by means of a first contact section, engages with a first supporting body of the insulating moulding, and the AC voltage terminal element, by means of a second contact section, engages with a second supporting body of the insulating moulding.

Abstract: A submodule and an assembly include a switching device having a substrate, and printed conductors arranged thereupon. The submodule incorporates a first and a second DC voltage printed conductor, to which a first and a second DC voltage terminal element are connected in an electrically conductive manner, and an AC voltage printed conductor, to which an AC voltage terminal element is connected in an electrically conductive manner. The submodule further comprises an insulating moulding, which encloses the switching device in a frame-type arrangement. The first DC voltage terminal element, by means of a first contact section, engages with a first supporting body of the insulating moulding, and the AC voltage terminal element, by means of a second contact section, engages with a second supporting body of the insulating moulding.

Abstract: A method comprises: capturing images of a movable object in a scene and tracking movement of the object in the scene based on the images, to produce movement parameters that define the movement; generating for display an extended reality (XR) visualization of the physical object in the scene and changing the XR visualization responsive to changing ones of the movement parameters, such that the XR visualization visually reflects the tracked movement; displaying the XR visualization; and converting the movement parameters to control messages configured to control one or more of sound and light, and transmitting the control messages.

Abstract: A power electronic arrangement has a power converter module, and a first and a second DC voltage terminal element and a first and a second DC voltage connection element, connected to conductor tracks in an electrically conductive manner with the correct polarity. First and second DC voltage terminal element, and the first and second DC voltage connection element, form a stack with an insulation device therebetween. The first DC voltage terminal element has a first recess enclosed in a first main plane, the second DC voltage connection element has a second recess enclosed and aligned with the first in a third main plane, the second DC voltage terminal element and the first DC voltage connection element are in a second main plane between the first and third main plane, and are laterally spaced from each other proximate the recesses.

Abstract: A projection module for a headlight of a vehicle with a lens holder for receiving a projection lens. On the lens holder is arranged a reflector on which can be received a light source. The lens holder comprises locking tabs, into which can lock counter-locking means provided on the reflector by moving the reflector to the lens holder from an axial direction (A) so that the latching connection is formed for a holding arrangement of the reflector on the lens holder. A headlight of a vehicle may include such a projection module. A method for the mounting of the projection module is also envisioned.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described that calculate the interestingness of a set of one or more records in a database, either absolutely (i.e., compared to an overall collection of records) or relative to some other set of records. In one embodiment, the measure is a relative entropy value that has been normalized. Various applications of the measure are described in the context of an information retrieval system. These applications include, for example, guiding query interpretation, guiding view selection and summarization, intelligent ranges, event detection, concept triggers and interpreting user actions, hierarchy discovery, and adaptive data mining.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described that calculate the interestingness of a set of one or more records in a database, either absolutely (i.e., compared to an overall collection of records) or relative to some other set of records. In one embodiment, the measure is a relative entropy value that has been normalized. Various applications of the measure are described in the context of an information retrieval system. These applications include, for example, guiding query interpretation, guiding view selection and summarization, intelligent ranges, event detection, concept triggers and interpreting user actions, hierarchy discovery, and adaptive data mining.