PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885050
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["361", "717000"]

Abstract:
The power module in which a plurality of switching elements connected in series between a first and second power terminals and a circuit configured to connect connecting points thereof to an output terminal are formed, the power module includes: a heat sink to which the switching elements are contacted; a package configured to seal a perimeter of the plurality of switching elements and a part of each terminal so as to expose at least one portion of the heat sink; and a protruding portion for thickness control configured to regulate a thickness of a thermally-conductive material when contacting the heat sink to the cooling apparatus facing the cooling apparatus via the thermally-conductive material, wherein each terminal is exposed from opposite side surfaces of the package, the opposite side surfaces having a height different from a height of an exposed surface of the cooling apparatus of the package.

Claim (Index 24):
A contact method of a power module for contacting the power module to a cooling plate so as to face to a heat radiation plate via a thermally-conductive material, the power module comprising: a semiconductor device; the heat radiation plate to which the semiconductor device is contacted; a sealing body configured to seal a perimeter of the semiconductor device so as to expose at least one portion of the heat radiation plate; and\n a plurality of terminals connected to an electrode of the semiconductor device, the plurality of the terminals exposed from opposite side surfaces of the sealing body, the opposite side surfaces having a height different from a height of an exposed surface of the heat radiation plate of the sealing body, the contact method comprising: forming a spatial area to be embedded with a predetermined quantity of the thermally-conductive material on an exposed surface of the heat radiation plate by a regulating portion including a square-shaped or circle-shaped convex region disposed so as to surround a periphery of the heat radiation plate, and discharged the thermally-conductive material which becomes excessive in the spatial area from a discharge groove formed on the convex region to an outside of the spatial area; and regulating a thickness of the thermally-conductive material so as to become uniform by a regulating portion when connecting of the power module, the regulating portion being formed on the sealing body or formed as a portion of the sealing body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08108
- Patent Class: 361.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15003199', '15361244', '14124172', '11262764', '13811722']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8361662484369102
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.473099156515112
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7998595392447304
- Mean Citation Score: 203.894172
- Max Citation Score: 220.20181
- Similarity Product: 182.53472585146068

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

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