US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Feb. 17 for "Terminal member, assembly, semiconductor device, and methods for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,968, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal member, assembly, semiconductor device, and methods for manufacturing same" was invented by Chongfa Xie (Tokyo), Ryuichi Ishii (Tokyo) and Takao Mitsui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Workability in a manufacturing process of a semiconductor device is improved. A terminal member is the terminal member joined to an electrode of a semiconductor element, and includes a conductor portion, a first annular projecting portion, and an annular recess. The conductor portion has a first main surface and a second main surface located on a side opposite to ...