Patent ID: 8203205

Claim:
A power semiconductor module for use with at least one semiconductor component, the module comprising: a housing; a pressure device; load connection elements and auxiliary connection elements which lead to the outside of the housing; and at least one substrate having an insulating material body with a first main area which faces the interior of the power semiconductor module and conductor tracks with load and auxiliary potentials disposed on said first main area; wherein said main area of said substrate includes at least two recesses near said conductor tracks in at least two regions which are not covered by one of the at least one power semiconductor components; wherein said pressure device includes at least one latching lug disposed in one of said recesses on the side of the pressure device that faces said substrate; wherein the latching lugs are attached to the recesses by one of a form-fit and frictional relationship; and wherein said pressure-introducing pressure element forms an upper end of the power semiconductor module.