Abstract: A disk-shaped housing for a semiconductor element comprising a cup (1) of insulating material with an opening (2) at the bottom. Through this opening (2) passes a contact surface (4) of one of two plate type connecting bodies (3), between which lies a pressure-contacted semiconductor body (14). Both connecting bodies (3, 5) comprise radially and axially oriented seal surfaces (8, 9; 11, 12), against which there abuts under pressure an elastic ring (13) which surrounds the semiconductor body. The cup is filled with sealing compound (18); the semiconductor body is thus protected against penetration of the sealing compound.

Abstract: Semiconductor component includes a closed housing having a base and a cover and being formed with a plurality of recesses therewithin, a plurality of semiconductor elements received in the recesses, respectively, and having at least two poles, a plurality of contact strips heat-conductively connected to and electrically insulated from the housing base, one of the poles of each of the semiconductor elements being in contact with a respective one of the contact strips and therethrough being in heat-conductive contact with the housing base, a plurality of supply electrodes, respectively, connected to another of the poles of the respective semiconductor elements, the respective contact strip in contact with a respective pole of one of the semiconductor elements and the respective supply electrode connected to a respective pole of another of the semiconductor elements being electrically connected to one another, a cross-piece disposed in the housing between the recesses wherein the semiconductor elements are recei