Patent ID: 7892893

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of: preparing an element-mounting member on which a semiconductor element is mounted; preparing a lead frame including a pattern to be a connecting terminal, said lead frame including a frame body as said element-mounting member connected to said connecting terminal by a tie bar; mounting a semiconductor chip including a prescribed power element as said semiconductor element on said element-mounting member; connecting said semiconductor chip and said connecting terminal by a prescribed metal wire; processing said lead frame such that said connecting terminal is erected upward at a prescribed position with respect to said semiconductor chip; setting said lead frame and said element-mounting member in a prescribed metal mold to which a prescribed sealing resin for sealing said element-mounting member and said semiconductor chip is introduced, such that said element-mounting member and said semiconductor chip as a whole are covered at least from above and said erected connecting terminal protrudes upward from an upper surface of the sealing resin, and not from a side surface of the sealing resin; introducing said sealing resin to said metal mold; and taking said semiconductor chip sealed by said sealing resin, from said metal mold.