Patent ID: 8436244

Claim:
A laminated bus bar applied to a main wiring circuit of an electric power converter and connected to a semiconductor module, comprising: insulator plates laminated together and having terminal windows aligned together when the insulator plates are laminated, and conductors interposed between the insulator plates, each conductor including a connection terminal section led out in accordance with an arrangement of a main circuit terminal on the semiconductor module, one conductor being interposed between two of the insulator plates and another conductor being interposed between two of the insulator plates such that the one and another conductors are not interposed between same insulator plates, and are laterally and vertically spaced from each other, wherein creepage grooves are formed in the entire insulator plates to extend linearly from side edges of the terminal windows of the insulator plates in accordance with a position between the connection terminal sections, said creepage grooves being arranged between two adjacent conductors such that the creepage grooves align linearly throughout the entire insulator plates when the insulator plates are laminated.