Patent ID: 9620391
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H01L

Claim:
1. A method for producing an electronic component, the method comprising: providing a lead frame and a platform on which the electronic component is arranged; integrally forming two oppositely arranged lobe elements at sides of the platform, wherein the lobe elements are arranged on a same plane as the platform; placing the platform and at least a portion of the lead frame in a mold; producing, by an encapsulating molding process via the mold, a housing which surrounds the electronic component and the platform; supporting the platform via the lobe elements at both sides relative to the mold during the encapsulating molding process so that no encapsulating molding material is deposited in the section of the lobe elements, wherein the lobe elements protrude at least in section out of the housing and the housing has in a region of each of the lobe elements two mutually opposite support holes, wherein the lobe elements only partly cover the support holes so that the lobe elements do not protrude beyond the external dimensions of the housing, wherein the platform is separately fixed and injection-molded around, and wherein the platform is not part of a lead frame.