Abstract: A resource management system (39) manages a supply of resource material and/or resource items to a plurality of at least two additive manufacturing machines (3) for additive manufacturing. The resource management system (39) includes a control unit (41) that is configured to receive a signal indicative of a demand for resource material and/or resource items of any of the additive manufacturing machines (3). The control unit (41) is configured to schedule the supply of demanded resource material and/or resource items according to a predetermined prioritization scheme for resolving demand conflicts.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a sintered power electronic module with a first plane and a second plane different from the first plane. An example comprises: a first substrate with a first metallization arranged on the first plane; a second substrate with a second metallization arranged on the second plane; a switchable die having a first power terminal and a second power terminal, the die arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a surface area of all the sintered connections of the first plane is between 90 and 110% of a surface area of all the sintered connections of the second plane. The first power terminal of the die is joined to the first metallization via a sintered connection in the first plane and the second power terminal is joined to the second metallization via a sintered connection in the second plane.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a power electronics assembly having a substrate with two loadable power modules. The two modules each comprise: a power substrate with a first metallization; a switchable die with power interfaces; an interposer; and two contact elements, each of which provides an electrical contact for one of the power interfaces at the interposer. The die is joined to the metallization of the power substrate and to the interposer. A gap is defined between the first substrate, the interposer, and the die, and closed off by an insulation material so the die is surrounded by the insulation material, the power substrate, and the interposer. At least one of the contact elements projects through the interposer and/or is part of the interposer.

Abstract: A circuit assembly includes first and second circuit carriers and a semiconductor component arranged between the circuit carriers and having first and second load terminals. The first load terminal has a first load terminal surface which faces the first circuit carrier and around which an electrically insulating edging structure is arranged. The second load terminal has a second load terminal surface which faces the second circuit carrier and is larger than the first load terminal surface. The first circuit carrier has a first through-contact which electrically connects the first load terminal surface to a first conductor path, which runs inside the first circuit carrier or on a top side of the first circuit carrier facing away from the semiconductor component. The second circuit carrier has a top side facing the semiconductor component and formed by a first electrically conductive layer that is electrically connected to the second load terminal surface.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for monitoring a flux application in a soldering process. An example includes: defining flux wetting surfaces in relation to an image of an application surface; generating a thermographic recording of the application surface selectively provided with liquid flux; defining adjustment points on the application surface which can be identified on the image and on the thermographic recording; superimposing the image and the thermographic recording on the basis of the adjustment points; and comparing the position of temperature anomalies on the application surface identified by the thermographic recording with the position of the flux wetting surfaces on the image.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for parameterizing an electronics production line using device parameters of a reference production line. The electronics production lines each include: a device to apply joining material to component carriers, a placement device to place electronic components onto the component carriers, a joining device to connect the electronic components to the component carriers, and a transport system to transport the component carriers through the devices. An example method includes: parameterizing the devices of the production line using parameters of the reference line; ascertaining actual parameter values in a limited region around the transport system; and ascertaining deviations between the actual process parameter values and reference process parameter values. The reference process parameter values have been acquired in a limited region around the transport system of the reference production line.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a semifinished product for use in the populating of a power electronics component by a connecting method. The product includes an electrically insulating prepreg frame electrically insulated. The prepreg frame is configured for surrounding an applied connecting material at a metallized installation site during the population. A material of the prepreg frame enables simultaneous processability of electrical connection and electrical insulation by compression of the insulation material in the form of the semifinished product since the processing parameters of the electrical connecting material and the semifinished product are compatible.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a power module for an electronic computing device. An example includes: a power chip generating heat during operation and a first vapor chamber device on one side of the power chip. The power chip and the first vapor chamber device make up a common surface-mountable component.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for monitoring a flux application in a soldering process. An example includes: defining flux wetting surfaces in relation to an image of an application surface; generating a thermographic recording of the application surface selectively provided with liquid flux; defining adjustment points on the application surface which can be identified on the image and on the thermographic recording; superimposing the image and the thermographic recording on the basis of the adjustment points; and comparing the position of temperature anomalies on the application surface identified by the thermographic recording with the position of the flux wetting surfaces on the image.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for operating an electronics production line for producing electronic assemblies. The electronics production line comprises a device to apply joining material onto component carriers, an assembly device to place electronic components onto the component carriers, a joining device to join the electronic components to the component carriers, and a transport to transport the component carriers through the production line. An example method includes: transporting a process parameter acquisition system through the electronics production line on the transport; measuring actual process parameter values with the process parameter acquisition system; providing setpoint process parameter values; determining any deviations between actual and setpoint process parameter values; and providing a dataset including the deviations.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for recording and evaluating parameter values in an electronics production line to produce electronic assemblies, the production line including a dispenser for applying joining material to a component carrier, a placement device for placing electronic components on the component carrier, and a joining device to join the electronic components to the component carrier. An example method includes: receiving a parameter value from each of the devices; and storing the parameter values in a dataset associated with a defined number of component carrier and with the resulting assemblies.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include power electronics assemblies. An example assembly includes: a substrate with a metallization forming first and second structures separated from each other by interspaces and with thickness of at least 300 ?m; a power semiconductor mounted on the first structure; and an electric insulator having a thermal conductivity of at least 50 W/mK arranged at least sectionally in such a way that the structures adjacent to the respective interspace are thermally connected by the insulator.

Abstract: The invention relates to a moisture sensor (10) comprising an electromagnetically shielding sensor housing (1) and a microstrip (4) arranged therein as well as at least one coaxial cable (3, 5) each having an inner conductor (3A, 5A) electrically connected to the microstrip (4) and an outer conductor (3B, 5B) electrically connected to the sensor housing (1), wherein the microstrip (4) and the at least one coaxial cable (3, 5) are arranged to conduct microwaves with a frequency (f) in a frequency band (?f) which covers at least part of the microwave range of between 10 megahertz (MHz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz), the sensor housing (1) is configured as a cavity resonator with a resonant frequency (fR1, fR2, fR3) within the frequency band (?f) and shielding for the frequency band (?f) and has openings (2) which establish a hygric contact between the interior and the environment (U) of the sensor housing (1) that is sufficient for moisture equalization, and wherein moisture-storing material is provided in the interi

Abstract: The present invention relates to an insufflator having an insufflation tube comprising an integrated heating element and humidifying material for laparoscopy, wherein measurement of the moisture content is possible. No separate humidity sensor is required to measure the moisture content of the humidifying material. Components that are already part of the insufflation tube can be used, in particular, the lead wires of heating elements or temperature sensors.

Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for producing electronic assemblies. The method may include: applying a fluid printing medium in a structured manner using a printing device multiple times consecutively in a sequential series of individual printing steps; measuring a rheological property of the printing medium in an automated repeated series of individual measurement steps during or between the individual printing steps; executing a computer-implemented rheological model for the execution of the individual printing steps, using the repeatedly measured rheological property as a variable input parameter; determining a favorable value for a selected printing parameter with the rheological model based on the currently measured rheological property; and automatically setting the determined favorable value for the selected printing parameter.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an apparatus comprising: a component; a cooling element; and a connecting element arranged between the component and the cooling element to thermally couple the cooling element to the component. The connecting element comprises a porous connecting body including a metal material. Pores of the connecting body are at least in part filled with a filling material including a low-melting alloy or a fluorinated organic liquid.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a computer-implemented method for generating an identification data set for an electronic module having a substrate, a joint, and an electronic component. An example method includes: providing a digital and/or X-ray recording of at least a partial region of the module; and generating the identification data set based on at least a portion of the recording, the portion including the joint. The identification data set identifies at least one of a number, an arrangement, and/or a size of gas inclusions in the joint.

Abstract: A resource management system (39) manages a supply of resource material and/or resource items to a plurality of at least two additive manufacturing machines (3) for additive manufacturing. The resource management system (39) includes a control unit (41) that is configured to receive a signal indicative of a demand for resource material and/or resource items of any of the additive manufacturing machines (3). The control unit (41) is configured to schedule the supply of demanded resource material and/or resource items according to a predetermined prioritization scheme for resolving demand conflicts.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for joining and insulating a power electronic semiconductor component with contact surfaces to a substrate. In some embodiments, the method includes: preparing the substrate with a metallization defining an installation slot having joining material, wherein the substrate comprises an organic or a ceramic wiring support; arranging an electrically insulating film and the semiconductor component on the substrate, such that the contact surfaces of the semiconductor component facing the substrate are omitted from the film and regions of the semiconductor component exposed by the contact surfaces are insulated at least in part by the film from the substrate and from the contact surfaces; and joining the semiconductor component to the substrate and electrically insulating the semiconductor component at least in part by the film in one step.

Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit arrangement, comprising at least one wiring carrier plate (1), characterized by at least one separating element (2) formed in the wiring carrier plate (1), which separating element divides the wiring carrier plate (1) into sections separated by the separating element (2), wherein the transfer of vibrations from one section to another section is at least partially decoupled and/or damped by the separating element (2). The invention further relates to a converter having such a circuit arrangement, and to an aircraft having a converter. The converter can comprise capacitor stacks (3) arranged on the wiring carrier plate (1), and power semiconductors (6).