Patent ID: 7656672

Claim:
A power module comprising a plurality of circuit units, each of the circuit units comprising a half bridge with two power semiconductor components connected in series, and wherein the half bridges are connected in parallel, and a current-carrying strap, each circuit unit having a substrate with a terminal contact with which contact is to be made and which is electrically connected in a parallel manner to the corresponding terminal contact of another circuit unit via the current-carrying strap, wherein the current-carrying strap has a plurality of separate connection elements and a connecting element, the connection elements of two adjacent circuit units are connected by a section of the connecting element, said section having an inductance of less than 10 nH, each connection element has an inductance between 5 nH and 100 nH and is assigned to the terminal contact of only a single one of the circuit units, in a connecting direction, each connection element can be permanently connected to the terminal contact assigned to it independently of the connecting element and the further connection elements of the power module, and the connecting element connects the circuit units in parallel by means of a connection to the separate connection elements, each power semiconductor component is electrically connected with a conductor track of the corresponding substrate having an inductance of less than 5 nH, the connection element comprises a connection lug for externally connecting the module, the connection lug being arranged above one of the circuit units, a section of the connection element, which section is arranged above one of the circuit units, is not equipped with a connection lug.