US Patent Issued to FUJI ELECTRIC on Aug. 4 for "Semiconductor module with bent external terminal" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,055, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Semiconductor module with bent external terminal" was invented by Taichi Itoh (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor module is provided with a semiconductor element, a case housing the semiconductor element, and an external terminal that electrically connects a main electrode of the semiconductor element to an external conductor. The external terminal projects out from a top face of the case and is bent at a right angle along the top face of the case. The case includes a protruding part that projects in a projection direction to ...