Heat Dissipating Element Held In Place By Clamping Or Spring Means Patents (Class 257/718)
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Patent number: 9629282Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate (101), a conductor plane (104) which is provided on an inner layer of the substrate (101), an electronic circuit (102) which is mounted on the substrate (101), a heat sink (103) which is mounted on an upper surface of the electronic circuit (102), includes a portion which does not overlap with the electronic circuit (102) when seen in a plan view, faces the conductor plane (104), and is configured of a conductive material, a conductor via (105) which is connected to the heat sink (103) on a surface of the heat sink (103) contacting the electronic circuit (102), and extends toward the conductor plane (104), and a stub (106) which is connected to the conductor via (105) and extends to face the conductor plane (104).Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Kasahara, Hiroshi Toyao
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Patent number: 9587891Abstract: A heat sink and mounting bracket arrangement includes a radiation fin module including a stack of radiation fins and an insertion hole located in one end of the stack of radiation fins, and a mounting bracket made from a metal plate sheet by stamping and including a bottom panel clamped on a bottom wall of the stack of radiation fins, an angled mounting panel rearwardly extending from one end of the bottom panel, a mounting slot cut through opposing top and bottom surfaces of the mounting panel for the mounting of a fastening member to affix the mounting bracket to an external substrate, and an angled plug plate forwardly extending from the bottom panel and tightly press-fitted into the insertion hole of the radiation fin module.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Inventor: Tsung-Hsien Huang
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Patent number: 9583373Abstract: A wafer carrier includes a base having a cavity provided at the center of the base and an outer sidewall extending along and away from an edge of the base to define the cavity. The cavity is configured to be filled with an adhesive layer. The wafer carrier is configured to be bonded to a wafer with an adhesive layer in the cavity of base such that the outer sidewall faces and is in contact with an edge of the wafer and the cavity faces a center of the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ho-Jin Lee, Pil-kyu Kang, Taeyeong Kim, Byung Lyul Park, Kyu-Ha Lee, Gilheyun Choi
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Patent number: 9559027Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a housing with a fragile portion. The fragile unit or portion has a resistance to a pressure or a melting point temperature that is lower than other portions of the housing. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of semiconductor elements disposed inside the housing. Each semiconductor element includes a semiconductor element region having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A first electrode is provided on the first surface and a second electrode is provided on the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Yoshimitsu Kuwahara
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Patent number: 9520377Abstract: Semiconductor device packages and methods of manufacturing the semiconductor device packages are provided. A semiconductor device package may include a bonding layer between a substrate and a semiconductor chip, and the bonding layer may include an intermetallic compound. The intermetallic compound may be a compound of metal and solder material. The intermetallic compound may include Ag3Sn. A method of manufacturing the semiconductor device package may include forming a bonding layer, which bonds a semiconductor chip to a substrate, by using a mixed paste including metal particles and a solder material. The bonding layer may be formed by forming an intermetallic compound, which is formed by heating the mixed paste to react the metal particles with the solder material.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeong-Won Yoon, Baik-woo Lee, Seong-woon Booh, Chang-mo Jeong
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Patent number: 9496204Abstract: In a non-leaded type semiconductor device, a tab, tab suspension leads, and other leads are exposed to one surface of a seal member. A semiconductor element is positioned within the seal member and fixed to a surface of the tab with an adhesive. The tab is formed larger than the semiconductor element so that outer peripheral edges of the tab are positioned outside outer peripheral edges of the semiconductor element. A groove is formed in the tab surface portion positioned between the area to which the semiconductor element is fixed and wire connection areas to which the wires are connected, the groove being formed so as to surround the semiconductor element fixing area, thereby preventing peeling-off between the tab to which the semiconductor element is fixed and the resin which constitutes the package.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignees: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, RENESAS SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE & TEST SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Hasebe, Tadatoshi Danno, Yukihiro Satou
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Patent number: 9474189Abstract: An inverter device includes a heat dissipation casing having a principal surface, heat dissipation fins arranged on an opposite side to the principal surface, a first concave portion provided adjacent to a region corresponding to the heat dissipation fins on the principal surface, and a second concave portion provided adjacent to the region corresponding to the heat dissipation fins on the principal surface, a semiconductor module arranged in the region corresponding to the heat dissipation fins on the principal surface and including a diode module and an inverter module, an inrush-current suppression resistor sealed by a sealing material in the first concave portion and electrically connected between the diode module and the inverter module, and a regenerative resistor sealed by the sealing material in the second concave portion and electrically connected between the diode module and the inverter module.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuki Kawauchi, Kensaku Matsuda
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Patent number: 9433079Abstract: A heat dissipation device is used in a circuit board, where the circuit board includes a chip and at least one positioning hole disposed around the chip, and each of the positioning holes has a bare metal area on its periphery. The heat dissipation device includes a heat dissipation element, a conductive element and at least one fixing part. The heat dissipation element is disposed on the chip; the conductive element is connected electrically to the bare metal area of the circuit board and the heat dissipation element respectively; the fixing part passes through the fixing holes and is connected to the positioning hole, so as to fix the heat dissipation element to the circuit board. A circuit board is also provided, which includes a substrate, a chip, a positioning hole and the heat dissipation device.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: WISTRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yu-Feng Chiang, Cheng-Hao Lee, Chun-Lin Wang, Tung-Huang Kuo
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Patent number: 9368425Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to incorporating one or more antennas or inductor coils into a semi-conductor package. A heat spreader or metal sheet is embedded in the package and stamped or otherwise patterned into a spiral or serpentine form. The pattern enables the spreader to function as an inductor or antenna when connected to a semiconductor chip in communication with a printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.Inventors: Richard S. Graf, Jay F. Leonard, David J. West, Charles H. Wilson
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Patent number: 9335801Abstract: A frame to be assembled to a housing of an electronic device is provided. The frame includes a first material portion and a second material portion. The first material portion has a first thermal conductivity coefficient, and the second material portion has a second thermal conductivity coefficient. The first material portion is connected to the second material portion, and the first thermal conductivity coefficient is greater than the second thermal conductivity coefficient. A stiffness of the second material portion is greater than a stiffness of the first material portion. A heat generating element of the electronic device dissipates heat by the first material portion, and the heat generating element is disposed to be corresponding to the first material portion. An electronic device having said frame is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: I-Cheng Chuang, Yu-Jing Liao, Hsin-Chih Liu, Hung-Wen Lin
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Patent number: 9318935Abstract: A control circuit board (25) configuring an inverter (21) serves as a thermally-conductive substrate. One surface of the control circuit board (25) is installed in a heat transferable manner on a heat-dissipating planar part (31) disposed on a housing (2), while heat-producing electrical components (39) are disposed in a heat transferable manner on the other surface of the control circuit board (25). The control circuit board (25) includes a substrate body (41) constituted of an insulator, and heat-conducting through members (42) constituted of a good thermal conductor filled through in a thickness direction of the substrate body (41). One end of each of the heat-conducting through members (42) is disposed in a heat transferable manner on the heat-dissipating planar part (31), and the electrical component (39) is disposed in a heat transferable manner on the other end.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Nakagami, Koji Nakano, Hiroyuki Kamitani, Takayuki Takashige
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Patent number: 9293387Abstract: The present invention relates to a film for flip chip type semiconductor back surface to be formed on a back surface of a semiconductor element flip chip-connected onto an adherend, in which the film for flip chip type semiconductor back surface before thermal curing has, at the thermal curing thereof, a volume contraction ratio within a range of 23° C. to 165° C. of 100 ppm/° C. to 400 ppm/° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Komoto, Naohide Takamoto, Goji Shiga, Fumiteru Asai
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Patent number: 9196566Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a terminal case, a beam portion which has elasticity and is connected to the terminal case, divided insulating substrates with a conductive pattern, a fastener which is disposed at the center of the terminal case, and an elastic sealing resin which fills the terminal case.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Kousuke Komatsu
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Patent number: 9052868Abstract: A subsea control system may include a computer unit including a printed circuit board that contains a central processing unit, and a socket for holding at least one memory card, whereby the computer unit has a screw hole, a wedged plate is fixed above at least a part of the socket by a screw which is screwed into the screw hole for fixing the at least one memory card placed in the socket.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Karstein Kristiansen, Kjetil Zsolt Volent
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Patent number: 9041196Abstract: A semiconductor module arrangement includes a semiconductor module having a top side, an underside opposite the top side, and a plurality of electrical connection contacts formed at the top side. The semiconductor module arrangement additionally includes a printed circuit board, a heat sink having a mounting side, and one or a plurality of fixing elements for fixing the printed circuit board to the heat sink. Either a multiplicity of projections are formed at the underside of the semiconductor module and a multiplicity of receiving regions for receiving the projections are formed at the mounting side of the heat sink, or a multiplicity of projections are formed at the mounting side of the heat sink and a multiplicity of receiving regions for receiving the projections are formed at the underside of the semiconductor module. In any case, each of the projections extends into one of the receiving regions.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Reinhold Bayerer
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Patent number: 9041194Abstract: The pressure unit includes a spring member that is formed into a coil form obtained by winding a wire rod and that has a periodically changing pitch angle and a housing member to which end portions of the spring member are attached, and the pressure unit pressurizes a semiconductor stacked unit obtained by alternately stacking a semiconductor element module and a cooling tube that makes contact with the semiconductor element module and cools the semiconductor element module.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noritoshi Takamura, Michiya Masuda, Ichiro Sasuga, Nobuharu Kato, Kengo Tsurugai
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Patent number: 9018537Abstract: A surface-mountable electronic device free of leads has a plurality of solderable connection surfaces at its lower side, with at least one of the connection surfaces having a rectangular portion. The outline of this rectangular portion corresponds to a connection surface of the JEDEC Standard MO-236 or of any other standard according to which the respective connection surface should not extend directly up to a side edge of the lower device side. The at least one connection surface furthermore has an extension section which extends, starting from the rectangular portion, in the direction of a side edge of the lower side of the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2008Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Vishay Semiconductor GmbHInventor: Heinrich Karrer
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Patent number: 9006876Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes: a package substrate on which a semiconductor device is disposed; a mounting board over which the package substrate is mounted; a first restraint that penetrates through the mounting board and the package substrate, and restrains deformation of the mounting board and the package substrate in a direction in which the mounting board and the package substrate are separated from each other; and a second restraint that is disposed between the mounting board and the package substrate, and restrains deformation of the mounting board and the package substrate in a direction in which the mounting board and the package substrate are closer to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Manabu Watanabe, Kenji Fukuzono, Shunji Baba
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Patent number: 9006881Abstract: An aspect of the present embodiment, there is provided a semiconductor device, including an insulating substrate, at least one semiconductor chip provided above the insulating substrate, a wiring terminal including a connection portion electrically connected to the semiconductor chip, a surrounding frame surrounding the semiconductor chip and the connection portion, an embedded material provided in the surrounding frame covering the semiconductor chip and the connection portion, and a pressing unit provided on a surface of the embedded material.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroshi Fukuyoshi, Junichi Nakao, Yoshiki Endo, Eitaro Miyake
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Patent number: 9000595Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device having a reduced size and thickness while suppressing deterioration in reliability. After a semiconductor wafer is ground at a back surface thereof with a grinding material into a predetermined thickness, the resulting semiconductor wafer is diced along a cutting region to obtain a plurality of semiconductor chips. While leaving grinding grooves on the back surface of each of the semiconductor chips, the semiconductor chip is placed on the upper surface of a die island via a conductive resin paste so as to face the back surface of the semiconductor chip and the upper surface of the die island each other. The die island has, on the upper surface thereof, a concave having a depth of from 3 ?m to 10 ?m from the edge of the concave to the bottom of the concave.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Eiji Ono, Eiji Osugi
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Patent number: 8970030Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic module and to a method for producing same, comprising a mold body (2), a first circuit carrier (3; 13) having a first inner face (3a; 13a), on which electronic components (5) are arranged, and a first outer face (3b; 13b), a second circuit carrier (4; 14) having a second inner face (4a; 14a), on which electronic components (5) are arranged, and a second outer face (4b; 14b), and at least one spring device (6, 7; 16) which connects the inner faces (3a, 14a; 13a, 14a), or surfaces of electronic components (5) arranged thereon, of the first and second circuit carriers (3, 4; 13, 14), wherein the first and second outer faces (3a, 4a; 13a, 14a) are exposed towards the outside of the electronic module in order to emit heat directly to the outside, and wherein the first and second outer faces (3a, 4a; 13a, 14a) are parallel to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Matthias Keil
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Patent number: 8970029Abstract: A flip chip microelectronic package having a heat spreader is provided. In one embodiment, the microelectronic package comprises a die having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being coupled to a substrate; a thermal interface material disposed in thermal conductive contact with the second surface of the die; and a heat spreader adapted for dissipating heat from the die, the heat spreader disposed in thermal conductive contact with the thermal interface material. The heat spreader includes a lid having an inner chamber therein defined by a first wall and a second wall, the second wall securely joined to the first wall to seal the chamber, the lid being mounted to the substrate and a wick layer positioned in the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Po-Yao Lin, Wen-Yi Lin
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Patent number: 8963324Abstract: In a semiconductor device, a semiconductor module is pressed against a cooler by a spring member. The spring member is compressed by a beam member that is connected with a strut fixed to the cooler. The cooler has a pressed part in which the semiconductor module is pressed, and a strut fixing part to which the strut is fixed. The strut fixing part has higher rigidity than the pressed part.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takato Sato, Yukio Onishi, Hiroyuki Kono, Hiroaki Yoshizawa, Toshio Watari, Hiromi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 8944149Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a base and a fastener. The fastener includes a neck portion, a head portion formed at one end of the neck portion, and an engaging portion formed at another opposite end of the neck portion. The base defines a receiving portion through the base. The receiving portion includes an inserting hole and a mounting hole communicating with the inserting hole. A flange extends upwardly from the base toward the mounting hole. The engaging portion extends through the inserting hole from a top of the base to make the neck portion enter the inserting hole. The neck portion is then crushed into the mounting hole from the inserting hole. A top face of the head portion abuts the flange, a bottom face of the head portion abuts the base.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignees: Furui Precise Component (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin-Huai Zhou, Wei-Hsiang Chang, Zhen Tang
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Patent number: 8947881Abstract: A housing (1) for at least one electronic card (2), designed for the aeronautics field, of the type having a standardized width and including two lateral guides designed to work together with slides provided on the inner surfaces of an electronics bay, includes two half-shells, upper (4) and lower (5), pressed together at the lateral guides; the lower half-shell includes at least one bearing area (10) forming the housing for electronic cards; elements (19) for pressing each electronic card (2) in each corresponding housing and for pressing at least one heat sink (16) against the upper surface of at least one electronic card; the function of the body (5) is to take into account the mechanical stresses linked to the electronic cards hosted within the housing, and the function of the cover (4) is to ensure adequate thermal conductivity to allow heat produced by an electronic card in operation to be dissipated.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company EADS FranceInventors: Jesus Aspas Puertolas, Nicolas Maisonnave, Emile Colongo, Sylvain Bourdou
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Patent number: 8941996Abstract: A heat dissipation device is used in a circuit board, where the circuit board includes a chip and at least one positioning hole disposed around the chip, and each of the positioning holes has a bare metal area on its periphery. The heat dissipation device includes a heat dissipation element, a conductive element and at least one fixing part. The heat dissipation element is disposed on the chip; the conductive element is connected electrically to the bare metal area of the circuit board and the heat dissipation element respectively; the fixing part passes through the fixing holes and is connected to the positioning hole, so as to fix the heat dissipation element to the circuit board. A circuit board is also provided, which includes a substrate, a chip, a positioning hole and the heat dissipation device.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventors: Yu-Feng Chiang, Cheng-Hao Lee, Chun-Lin Wang, Tung-Huang Kuo
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Patent number: 8933557Abstract: A semiconductor module including a cooling unit by which a fine cooling effect is obtained is provided. A plurality of cooling flow paths (21c) which communicate with both of a refrigerant introduction flow path which extends from a refrigerant introduction inlet and a refrigerant discharge flow path which extends to a refrigerant discharge outlet are arranged in parallel with one another in a cooling unit (20). Fins (22) are arranged in each cooling flow path (21c). Semiconductor elements (32) and (33) are arranged over the cooling unit (20) so that the semiconductor elements (32) and (33) are thermally connected to the fins (22). By doing so, a semiconductor module (10) is formed. Heat generated by the semiconductor elements (32) and (33) is conducted to the fins (22) arranged in each cooling flow path (21c) and is removed by a refrigerant which flows along each cooling flow path (21c).Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Gohara, Akira Morozumi, Keiichi Higuchi
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Patent number: 8922999Abstract: A heat dissipating assembly which releases heat produced by an electronic device comprising a heat dissipating device and a plurality of elastic fastening members. The heat dissipating assembly includes a base plate having a plurality of engaging holes formed thereon. Each elastic fastening member includes a connecting member and a spring. The connecting member has a head portion and a bolt body that extends therefrom. The bolt body has an outer thread formed on the surface thereof and is being insertable into the respective engaging hole. The spring includes a winding portion woundable around the outer periphery of the bolt body, a clutching portion outwardly extended and downwardly bent from the bottom end of the winding portion to the base surface of the base plate, and a fastening segment extending from the clutching portion back under the winding portion. The instant disclosure further provides an elastic fastening member.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Wistron Corp.Inventors: Jeng-Ming Lai, Sheng-Fu Liu, Tsung-Yu Chiu, Wei-Chung Hsiao
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Patent number: 8912644Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an IGBT as a vertical semiconductor element provided between first, and second lead frames, in pairs, the first, and second lead frames being opposed to each other, first and second sintered-metal bonding layers provided on first and second bonding surfaces of the IGBT, in pairs, respectively, a through-hole opened in the second lead frame, and a heat-release member having a surface on one side thereof, bonded to a second sintered-metal bonding layer of the second bonding surface while a side (lateral face) of a surface of the heat-release member, on the other side thereof, being fitted into the through-hole. A solder layer is formed in a gap between an outer-side wall of the side of the surface of the heat-release member, on the other side thereof, and an inner-side wall of the through-hole.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eiichi Ide, Toshiaki Morita
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Patent number: 8867211Abstract: A heat sink module has a leg for tool-less engagement with a mounting structure on a circuit board. Engagement of the heat sink module with the mounting structure is to cause thermal contact between the heat sink module and a heat generating device.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Andrew L. Wiltzius
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Patent number: 8861203Abstract: An adjustable heat sink assembly includes a thermo-conductive bottom panel having a flat contact face protruded from the bottom wall thereof, elevation-adjustment fasteners mounted in the thermo-conductive bottom panels and fastened to a circuit board and vertically adjusted to keep the flat contact face in positive contact with a heat source at the circuit board, a thermo-conductive top panel, pitch-adjustment fasteners joining the thermo-conductive bottom panel and the thermo-conductive top panel and adjustable to control the distance between the thermo-conductive bottom panel and the thermo-conductive top panel and to keep the thermo-conductive top panel in positive contact with the housing, face panel or radiation fin of the electronic apparatus using the circuit board, and heat pipes connected between the thermo-conductive bottom panel and the thermo-conductive top panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Adlink Technology Inc.Inventor: Chih-Liang Fang
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Patent number: 8860198Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment, a dual compartment semiconductor package includes a conductive clip having first and second compartments. The first compartment is electrically and mechanically connected to a top surface of the first die. The second compartment electrically and mechanically connected to a top surface of a second die. The dual compartment semiconductor package also includes a groove formed between the first and second compartments, the groove preventing contact between the first and second dies. The dual compartment package electrically connects the top surface of the first die to the top surface of the second die. The first die can include an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) and the second die can include a diode. A temperature sensor can be situated adjacent to, over, or within the groove for measuring a temperature of the dual compartment semiconductor package.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: International Rectifier CorporationInventor: Henning M. Hauenstein
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Patent number: 8836105Abstract: A method of assembling a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate having an array of substrate elements linked by substrate corner elements and separated by slots extending between the corner elements. Semiconductor dies are positioned on the substrate elements. A cap, frame and contact structure is provided that has a corresponding array of caps supported by corner legs linking the caps to frame corner elements, frame elements linking the frame corner elements, and sets of electrical contact elements supported by the frame elements. The cap, frame and contact structure is fitted on the substrate with the caps extending over corresponding dies, the frame corner elements extending over the substrate corner elements, and the sets of electrical contact elements disposed in the slots. The dies are connected electrically with the electrical contact elements and the assembly is encapsulated and singulated. Singulating removes the frame elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Baoguan Yin, Junhua Luo, Deguo Sun
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Patent number: 8836092Abstract: A lead frame for assembling a semiconductor device has a die pad surrounded by lead fingers. Each of the lead fingers has a proximal end close to but spaced from an edge of the die pad and a distal end farther from the die pad. A semiconductor die is attached to a surface of the die pad. The die has die bonding pads on its upper surface that are electrically connected to the proximal ends of the lead fingers with bond wires. An encapsulation material covers the bond wires, semiconductor die and the proximal ends of the lead fingers. Prior to assembly, hot spots of the die are determined and the lead fingers closest to the hot spots are selected to project closer to the die than the other lead fingers. These longer lead fingers assist in dissipating the heat at the die hot spot.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: FreeScale Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Chetan Verma, Piyush Kumar Mishra, Cheong Chiang Ng
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Patent number: 8829669Abstract: A semiconductor device configured to enable efficient cooling of an element and downsizing of the device. The semiconductor device including an element unit connected to a surface of a cooler. A support member that has a condenser housing chamber that houses the condenser. The condenser has two parallel planar surfaces that are parallel with each other. The condenser housing chamber has a parallel opposing surface that is arranged in parallel with the element unit arrangement surface and faces the element unit arrangement surface, and houses the condenser in a state where the two parallel planar surfaces are arranged in parallel with the parallel opposing surface. The support member is fixed to the cooler in a state where the parallel opposing surface presses the element unit toward the cooler.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignees: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Hotta, Tatsuyuki Uechi
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Publication number: 20140239488Abstract: An electronic component unit includes a semiconductor package mounted on a front surface of a substrate, a heat sink including a pushing plate installed on the semiconductor package, a reinforcing plate disposed on a back surface of the substrate, and a plurality of fasteners that connect corner portions of the pushing plate and the reinforcing plate to each other, wherein the semiconductor package is pressed and fixed on the substrate by fastening the plurality of fasteners, and the reinforcing plate includes a base plate portion including a connection portion to which each of the plurality of fasteners is connected, and a pressing plate portion which is disposed at a planar central side of the base plate portion, and separably laminated on the base plate portion to press the back surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Yoko KOBAYASHI, Tsuyoshi SO, Nobutaka ITOH, Yoshiteru OCHI, Katsuhiko NAKATA
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Patent number: 8804340Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment, a power semiconductor package includes a power module having a plurality of power devices. Each of the plurality of power devices can be a power switch. The power semiconductor package also includes a double-sided heat sink with a top side in contact with a plurality of power device top surfaces and a bottom side in contact with a bottom surface of the power module. The power semiconductor package can include at least one fastening clamp pressing the top side and the bottom side of the double-sided heat sink into the power module. The double-sided heat sink can also include a water-cooling element.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: International Rectifier CorporationInventor: Henning M. Hauenstein
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Patent number: 8796840Abstract: A semiconductor assembly includes a first subassembly comprising a heat sink and a first patterned polymer layer disposed on a surface of the heat sink to define an exposed portion of the first surface. The exposed portion of the first surface extends radially inward along the heat sink surface from the first layer. The subassembly also includes a second patterned polymer layer disposed on a radially outer portion of the first patterned polymer layer. The first and second layers define a cell for accommodating a power semiconductor die. Solder material is disposed on the exposed portion of the heat sink surface and in the cell. A power semiconductor die is located within the cell on a radially inward portion of the first layer and thermally coupled to the heat sink by the solder material.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2012Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Vishay General Semiconductor LLCInventors: Wan-Lan Chiang, Kuang Hann Lin, Chih-Ping Peng
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Patent number: 8796843Abstract: High-power and high-frequency semiconductor devices require high signal integrity and high thermal conductance assembly technologies and packages. In particular, wide-gap-semiconductor devices on diamond benefit from spatially separate electrical and thermal connections. This application discloses assembly and package architectures that offer high signal integrity and high thermal conductance.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Element Six Technologies US CorporationInventors: Dubravko I. Babic, Quentin E. Diduck, Alex Schreiber
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Patent number: 8780563Abstract: The invention provides a load distributed heat sink system for securing a heat sink to a heat-generating electronic component while distributing the load on the circuit board. Provided is a heat sink system having heat sink, a heat sink clip, and a circuit board. The heat sink is generally disposed on one side of the circuit board over a component, and the heat sink clip is generally disposed on the opposing side of the circuit board. The ends of heat sink clip reach to the other side and attach onto the heat sink on. The heat sink clip further includes a load spreader, which is urged onto the circuit board by the heat sink clip, both retaining the heat sink system in place and distributing load on the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Douglas Alan Lostoski
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Patent number: 8779582Abstract: An integrated circuit chip package is described. The integrated circuit package comprises a substrate, a chip attached to the substrate, and a heat spreader mounted over the chip for sealing the chip therein. The heat spreader includes a thermally-conductive element having a side opposed to the top of the chip for transmitting heat away from the chip to the heat spreader, and a compliant element having a first portion attached to and positioned around the periphery of the thermally-conductive element and a second portion affixed to a surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Wen-Yi Lin, Po-Yao Lin
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Patent number: 8772927Abstract: Semiconductor package structures are provided which are designed to have liquid coolers integrally packaged with first level chip modules. In particular, apparatus for integrally packaging a liquid cooler device within a first level chip package structure include structures in which a liquid cooler device is thermally coupled directly to the back side of an integrated circuit chip flip-chip mounted on flexible chip carrier substrate. The liquid cooler device is mechanically coupled to the package substrate through a metallic stiffener structure that is bonded to the flexible package substrate to provide mechanical rigidity to the flexible package substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Raschid Jose Bezama, Evan George Colgan, Michael Gaynes, John Harold Magerlein, Kenneth C. Marston, Xiaojin Wei
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Patent number: 8773857Abstract: A heat sink mounting device includes a touching plate and a mounting member. The touching plate defines a locking hole. The mounting member includes a locking post. The locking post includes a body and two protrusions protruding from the body. An inner surface of the locking hole defines two cutouts. The touching plate includes two blocking blocks extending from an edge of the locking hole on a bottom surface of the touching plate. The two protrusions extend out of the two cutouts and abut the bottom surface of the touching plate. One of the two protrusions is located between the two blocking blocks, to prevent the body from rotating freely in the locking hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chih-Hao Yang, Xiang-Kun Zeng, Bao-Quan Shi, Jing-Jun Ni
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Patent number: 8704363Abstract: An interface plate capable of being mounted between first and second surface-mounted electronic chips. The plate includes a plurality of first, second, and third through openings, the first openings being filled with a conductive material and being arranged to be in front of pads of the first and second chips during the assembly, the second openings being filled with a second material, the third openings being filled with a third material, the second and third materials forming two complementary components of a thermoelectric couple.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.A.Inventors: Yacine Felk, Alexis Farcy
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Patent number: 8684572Abstract: An LED connector assembly includes a housing having a cavity formed therein. A connector interface is positioned on the housing to receive electrical wiring from a power source. An LED package is provided having at least one LED die coupled thereto. The LED package is removably received in the cavity of the housing and retained using features in the LED package and housing. The LED package is electrically coupled to the connector interface to provide power to the at least one LED die.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventor: Ronald Martin Weber
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Patent number: 8679900Abstract: A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a substrate; mounting an integrated circuit over the substrate; mounting a lid base over the substrate, the lid base having a base indentation and a hole with the integrated circuit within the hole; and mounting a heat slug over the lid base, the heat slug having a slug non-horizontal side partially within the base indentation.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Stats Chippac Ltd.Inventors: DaeSik Choi, SangMi Park, MinJung Kim, MinWook Yu
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Patent number: 8681497Abstract: A board coolant jacket jig system includes a main frame that includes a board installation stand on which a board is installed, and a coolant jacket separation unit that is coupled to the main frame and selectively coupled to the coolant jacket coupled to the board, to separate the coolant jacket.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mu Yer Lee
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Patent number: 8674509Abstract: A packaged semiconductor device comprises a package substrate comprising a first package substrate contact and a second package substrate contact, and a semiconductor die over the package substrate. The semiconductor device further includes electrical connections between signal contact pads of the die and the package substrate, and a heat spreader that comprises a first heat spreader portion which is electrically connected to a first signal contact pad and the first package substrate contact and provides an electrical conduction path and a thermal conduction path. A second heat spreader portion provides an electrical conduction path between a second signal contact pad and the second package substrate contact and a thermal conduction path between the die and package substrate. An insulating layer is positioned between the first and second heat spreader portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Burton J. Carpenter, Leo M. Higgins, III
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Patent number: 8659130Abstract: A power module includes: a sealing body including a semiconductor element having a plurality of electrode surfaces, a first conductor plate connected to one electrode surface of the semiconductor element via solder, and a sealing material for sealing the semiconductor element and the first conductor plate, the sealing body having at least a first surface and a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface; and a case for housing the sealing body. The case is configured by a first heat radiation plate opposed to the first surface of the sealing body, a second heat radiation plate opposed to the second surface of the sealing body, and an intermediate member that connects the first heat radiation plate and the second heat radiation plate. The intermediate member has a first thin section having thickness smaller than the thickness of the first heat radiation plate, more easily elastically deformed than the first heat radiation plate, and formed to surround the first heat radiation plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Takagi, Kaoru Uchiyama, Tokihito Suwa, Kinya Nakatsu, Takeshi Tokuyama, Shinji Hiramitsu
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Patent number: 8653651Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor device, a heat spreader, a regulating unit, a containing unit, and a holding unit. The heat spreader is bonded to the semiconductor device with an interposed solder layer. The regulating unit is configured to regulate a dimension between the semiconductor device and the heat spreader. The containing unit is configured to contain melted solder in an interior of the containing unit. The holding unit is configured to allow melted solder held in an interior of the holding unit. The holding unit is configured to replenish the melted solder in the case where an amount of the melted solder contained in the containing unit is insufficient. The holding unit is configured to recover the melted solder in the case where the amount of the melted solder contained in the containing unit is excessive.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masayuki Uchida, Takashi Togasaki, Satoru Hara, Kentaro Suga