ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,113, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Power electronics module" was invented by Ake Ewald (Bayreuth, Germany), Stefan Hain (Speichersdorf, Germany) and Fabian Hohmann (Hofbieber, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power electronics module, having a DBC PCB having power semiconductors arranged thereon, and a multilayered leadframe including at least two separate subframes. No power or control routing takes place on the PCB. A region of the load source subregion is arranged between the PCB and the gate source and kelvin source subregion and is in electrical contact with the pow...