PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975826
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["361", "699000"]

Abstract:
An electrical power conversion apparatus is provided which includes a semiconductor module and a plurality of cooling pipes. Each of the cooling pipes has an electrical conductivity and a cooling medium flow path formed therein. Each of the cooling pipes is equipped with a flow path extension forming portion which protrudes above a module body in at least one of height-wise directions and in which a portion of the cooling medium flow path is formed. The flow path extension forming portion overlaps at least either of the power terminals or the control terminals in a stacking direction of the cooling pipes. This enhances the efficiency in decreasing the inductance of the power terminals and/or the control terminals, improves the productivity of the electrical power conversion apparatus, and enables the size of the electrical power conversion apparatus to be reduced.

Claim (Index 1):
An electrical power conversion apparatus comprising:\n a semiconductor module which includes a module body in which a semiconductor device is installed, a plurality of power terminals extending from the module body, and a plurality of control terminals extending from the module body, the module body having major surfaces; and a first and a second cooling pipe which are stacked on each other through the semiconductor module and hold the major surfaces of the module body therebetween, wherein each of the first and second cooling pipes has electrical conductivity and is equipped with a cooling medium flow path in which a cooling medium flows, wherein the power terminals extend from the module body in a first height-wise direction that is one of height-wise directions perpendicular to a stacking direction in which the first and second cooling pipes and the semiconductor module are stacked, wherein the control terminals extend from the module body in a second height-wise direction that is one of the height-wise directions, wherein each of the first and second cooling pipes includes a flow path extension forming portion which extends therefrom over the module body in at least one of the height-wise directions and in which a portion of the cooling medium flow path is formed, and wherein the flow path extension forming portions overlap at least either of the power terminals or the control terminals in the stacking direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28125
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15718526', '13273162', '13951959', '13638400', '15099873']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8287485683411706
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4593448508562917
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7918081965926828
- Mean Citation Score: 172.680034
- Max Citation Score: 181.8833
- Similarity Product: 150.84752658620476

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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