Patent ID: 7821791
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
1. A housing for a power module used as part of a circuit arrangement of the power module, a heat sink, a printed circuit board and a pressing device; wherein the power module and the printed circuit board are disposed between the heat sink and the pressing device and are pressure-contact-connected to one another by at least one pressure contact element; wherein the power module has at least one module board element; and wherein the housing comprises: a base that faces the printed circuit board; and at least one shaft having an opening orifice for receiving a pressure contact element, which pressure contact element is pressure-contact-connected to the at least one module board element and the printed circuit board, said shaft opening out from said base at said opening orifice; wherein said base includes at least one orifice sealing rib disposed about said opening orifice.