Rectifier module

• US 4,670,771 A
• Filed: 08/02/1985
• Issued: 06/02/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: IXYS Corporation (Littelfuse Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Brown Boveri & CIE AG (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Akyurek, Altan, Neidig, Arno, Hettmann, Hubert
• Primary Examiner(s): Edlow, Martin H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jackson, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US06/762,802
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• Field of Search: 357/74, 357/80, 357/81, 174/52 H, 174/52 S, 174/52 R, 174/52 PE, 361/386, 361/388, 361/389
• US Class Current: 257/703
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/053 the container being a hollow construction and having an insulating or insulated base as a mounting for the semiconductor body
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/15 Ceramic or glass substrates H01L23/142, H01L23/145, H01L23/147 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/24 solid or gel at the normal operating temperature of the device H01L23/3135 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/49562 for devices being provided for in H01L29/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/0002 Not covered by any one of groups H01L24/00, H01L24/00 and H01L2224/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 257/909 Macrocell arrays, e.g. gate arrays with variable size or configuration of cells

Abstract

Rectifier module, including a frame forming a housing wall and having an open top and bottom, a ceramic plate cemented to the frame forming a housing bottom and having a side facing the interior of the housing and a side facing away from the interior of the housing, metallizations disposed on the side of the ceramic plate facing the interior of the housing forming conductor strips for soldering on semiconductor components, internal connecting straps, external connecting elements in the form of flat plugs having a broadened base part being soldered to one of the metallizations, an actual plug connector part being freely accessible from the top of the housing and an extension curve being disposed between the base part and the actual plug connector, the extension curve having a cross-sectional area being smaller than the cross-sectional area of the base and actual plug connector parts, a sealing compound filling substantially half of the housing, and a copper foil being disposed on the side of the ceramic plate facing away from the interior of the housing and having a thickness being substantially the same as the thickness of the metallizations.

Claims

1. Rectifier module, comprising a frame forming a housing wall and having an open top and bottom and a depression formed in the bottom thereof, a ceramic plate, adhesive cementing said ceramic plate to said frame in said depression forming a housing bottom and having a side facing the interior of said housing and a side facing away from the interior of said housing, said frame including means for preventing said adhesive from escaping from said depression, said preventing means being a groove formed in said frame within said depression for receiving said adhesive, metallizations disposed on said side of said ceramic plate facing the interior of said housing forming conductor strips for soldering on semiconductor components, internal connecting straps connected to said frame, external connecting elements in the form of flat plugs having a broadened base part being soldered to one of said metallizations, an actual plug connector part being freely accessible from the top of said housing and an extension curve being disposed between said base part and said external plug connector, said extension curve having a cross-sectional area being smaller than the cross-sectional area of said base and actual plug connector parts, a sealing compound filling substantially half of said housing, and a thick copper foil being directly bonded to said side of said ceramic plate facing away from the interior of said housing and having a thickness being substantially the same as the thickness of said metallizations for preventing thermal tensions on the ceramic plate.

4. Rectifier module according to claim 1, wherein said bonding is carried out by heating said ceramic plate covered with said copper foil in an oxygen-containing atmosphere to a temperature above the eutectic temperature of Cu and Cu₂ O but below the melting temperature of copper, in a vacuum furnace at pressure of not more than 1 mbar while maintaining a furnace atmosphere with a partial oxygen pressure between 0.0001 and 0.1 mbar.

8. Rectifier module according to claim 1 wherein said thick copper foil has a thickness as high as 0.5 mm.

2. Rectifier module, comprising a housing forming a housing wall and having an open top and bottom and a depression formed in the bottom thereof, a ceramic plate, adhesive cementing said ceramic plate to said housing in said depression forming a housing bottom and having a side facing the interior of said housing and a side facing away from the interior of said housing, said housing including means for preventing said adhesive from escaping from said depression, said preventing means being a groove formed in said housing within said depression for receiving said adhesive, metallizations disposed on said side of said ceramic plate facing the interior of said housing forming conductor strips for soldering on semiconductor components, internal connecting straps connected to said housing, external connecting elements in the form of flat plugs having a broadened base part being soldered to one of said metallizations and an actual plug connector part being freely accessible from the top of said housing, a sealing compound filling substantially half of said housing, and a thick cooper foil being directly bonded to said side of said ceramic plate facing away from the interior of said housing and having a thickness being substantially the same as the thickness of said metallizations for preventing thermal tensions on the ceramic plate.

3. Rectifier module according to claim 2, wherein said external connecting elements include an extension curve being disposed between said base part and said actual plug connector, said extension curve having a cross-sectional area being smaller than the cross-sectional area of said base and actual plug connector parts.

5. Rectifier module according to claim 2, wherein said bonding is carried out by heating said ceramic plate covered with said cooper foil in an oxygen-containing atmosphere to a temperature above the eutectic temperature of Cu and Cu₂ O but below the melting temperature of copper, in a vacuum furnace at pressure of not more than 1 mbar while maintaining a furnace atmosphere with a partial oxygen pressure between 0.0001 and 0.1 mbar.

9. Rectifier module according to claim 2 wherein said copper foil has a thickness as high as 0.5 mm.

6. Rectifier module, comprising a frame forming a housing wall and having an open top and bottom and a depression formed in the bottom thereof, a ceramic plate, adhesive cementing said ceramic plate to said frame in said depression forming a housing bottom and having a side facing the interior of said housing and a side facing away from the interior of said housing, said frame including means for preventing said adhesive from escaping from said depression, said preventing means being a groove formed in said frame within said depression for receiving said adhesive, metallizations disposed on said side of said ceramic plate facing the interior of said housing forming conductor strips for soldering on semiconductor components, internal connecting straps connected to said frame, external connecting elements in the form of flat plugs having a broadened base part being soldered to one of said metallizations, an actual plug connector part being freely accessible from the top of said housing and an extension curve being disposed between said base part and said external plug connector, said extension curve having a cross-sectional area being smaller than the cross-sectional area of said base and actual plug connector parts, a sealing compound filling substantially half of said housing, and a copper foil having a thickness of at least 0.1 mm being directly bonded to said side of said ceramic plate facing away from the interior of said housing and having a thickness being substantially the same as the thickness of said metallizations for preventing thermal tensions on the ceramic plate.

7. Rectifier module, comprising a housing forming a housing wall and having an open top and bottom and a depression formed in the bottom thereof, a ceramic plate, adhesive cementing said ceramic plate to said housing in said depression forming a housing bottom and having a side facing the interior of said housing and a side facing away from the interior of said housing, said housing including means for preventing said adhesive from escaping from said depression, said preventing means being a groove formed in said housing within said depression for receiving said adhesive, metallizations disposed on said side of said ceramic plate facing the interior of said housing forming conductor strips for soldering on semiconductor components, internal connecting straps connected to said frame, external connecting elements in the form of flat plugs having a broadened base part being soldered to one of said metallizations and an actual plug connector part being freely accessible from the top of said housing, a sealing compound filling substantially half of said housing, and a cooper foil having a thickness of at least 0.1 mm being directly bonded to said side of said ceramic plate facing away from the interior of said housing and having a thickness being substantially the same as the thickness of said metallizations for preventing thermal tensions on the ceramic plate.