Patent ID: 7432594

Claim:
A semiconductor device comprising, a semiconductor chip including first and second surfaces opposed to each other in a thickness direction of the semiconductor chip, wherein the first and second surfaces include first and second electrode surfaces respectively, first and second electrically conductive members covering the first and second electrode surfaces respectively as seen in the thickness direction to be electrically connected to the first and second electrode surfaces respectively; and a sealing member fixed to at least a part of each of the semiconductor chip, the first electrically conductive member, and the second electrically conductive member, wherein each of the first and second electrically conductive members has an electrically conductive member body and an electrically conductive joint member between the electrically conductive member body and respective ones of the first and second electrode surfaces, a melting point of the electrically conductive joint member being lower than that of the electrically conductive member body, and wherein in a cross section passing the semiconductor chip and the first and second electrically conductive members taken along an imaginary plane parallel to the thickness direction, a difference between a distance between an innermost of a surface of the electrically conductive joint member of one of the first and second electrically conductive members which surface contacting the sealing member and a terminating end of the semiconductor chip in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction and another distance between an innermost of a surface of the electrically conductive joint member of the other one of the first and second electrically conductive members which surface contacting the sealing member and the terminating end of the semiconductor chip in the direction perpendicular to the thickness direction is not more than the smaller one of the distance and the another distance.