WO1994013012A1 - Device for cooling sheet elements for power electronics - Google Patents

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WO1994013012A1
WO1994013012A1 PCT/SE1993/000824 SE9300824W WO9413012A1 WO 1994013012 A1 WO1994013012 A1 WO 1994013012A1 SE 9300824 W SE9300824 W SE 9300824W WO 9413012 A1 WO9413012 A1 WO 9413012A1
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Waldemar Belwon
Gösta HESSLOW
Tomas Melberg
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Asea Brown Boveri Ab
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    • H05K7/2089—Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating for power electronics, e.g. for inverters for controlling motor
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  • the present invention relates to an invention for sheet elements for power electronics, such as power semiconductors or power semiconductors mounted on substrates, said device comprising a heat sink provided with cooling fins and being composed of a material with good thermoconductivity and on which the power electronics elements are intended to be mounted in a heat transferring manner.
  • Heat generating semiconductors require in most applications some form of cooler to maintain the operating temperature at an acceptably low level.
  • Usually separate encapsuled power semiconductors are mounted on one or more finned cooling elements, which are in turn mounted on circuit boards.
  • power semiconductors are first mounted as naked chips on a substrate, which is in turn mounted in a protec ⁇ tive plastic casing.
  • the space in the casing is partially filled with a silicone gel, for example.
  • the rest of the space is filled out with an epoxy mixture.
  • Such a semiconductor construction is usually called a "power module".
  • the plastic casing of the power module is usually fixed with screws or adhesive on the outside of a cooling element.
  • spring washers must be employed, which when mounted must be carefully compressed so that they can move as the temperature changes.
  • a general purpose of the present invention is to achieve improved cooling of power electronics elements at the same time as they can be protected in a better and simpler manner against chemical and mechanical damage.
  • this is achieved in principle accord- ing to the invention by virtue of the fact that the required encapsuling of the power electronics element is effected by the cooling element itself, which simultaneously has the function of a very effective cooler and a capsule for the power electronics element.
  • the heat sink itself is thus made to delimit an enclosed cavity, which has at least one wall side on which at least one sheet element for power electro ⁇ nics is intended to be fixed, said heat sink having at least one opening through which the power electronics element can be inserted into the cavity and which can be sealed by means of a cover.
  • the heat sink is made of an extruded hollow profile with cooling fins, both ends of said profile being sealable by means of respective covers.
  • This provides a heat sink with a large cooling surface by virtue of the fact that its external surfaces have cooling fins to the greatest possible extent in order to effectively dissipate heat from the power electro ⁇ nics element(s) mounted against an interior cavity wall in the heat sink.
  • the cover or covers are provided with means for clamping the sheet element for power electronics against the interior side wall of the hollow profile, especially of the type described in more detail in our copending patent appli ⁇ cation SE-A-9203532-8 with the title "Means for fixing elec ⁇ tronics elements in sheet form", said cover simultaneously hermetically sealing the cavity and clamping the sheet ele ⁇ ment for power electronics against a cavity wall in the heat sink.
  • the heat sink is provided with an entry hole commu ⁇ nicating with the cavity and in which a connector is disposed to be fixed, said connector having contact elements for power connection to corresponding contact elements on a connector element associated with the power electronics element, said connector being coordinated with a seal for hermitically sealing the entry hole.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a heat sink in the form of a hollow profile with a sheet element for power electronics mounted therein with associa ⁇ ted coupling elements and a signal electronics unit, and
  • Figure 2 is a sectional view along the line A-A in Figure 1 but with the coupling and signal electronics ele ⁇ ments omitted.
  • the numeral 10 designates a heat sink in the form of an extruded hollow profile, preferably of aluminum, with essentially rectangular cross-sectional shape.
  • the profile 10 has an inner cavity 12, and three of its four sides provided with cooling fins 14.
  • the upper side 16 of the hollow profile in Figure 1 is a mounting flange for mounting the heat sink
  • the heat sink 10 is intended to hermitacally enclose an electronics unit 18, which in the example shown consists of a power semiconductor element 20 mounted on a sheet substrate, a connecting plate 22 with contact elements 24 and a control or signal electronics unit 26 with a contact element 28 and legs 30 connecting the control electronics unit 26 with the power semiconductor 20.
  • the sheet power electronics element 20 is designed to be clamped with even force against the wall 32 of the cavity 12, so that heat generated in the power semiconductor element 20 can be effectively drained off to the heat sink 10 and its cooling fins 14.
  • the end openings of the cavity 12 can be sealed by means of end covers 34 (Fig 2) .
  • the end covers 34 are suitably made in a manner which is described in more detail in our copending SE-A 9203532-8 and each cover has the double function of simultaneously clamping the semiconductor element 20 with even force against the wall 32 of the cavity and hermetically sealing the respective end opening of the cavity 12 by means of seals 36 on the periphery of the cover 34.
  • the cover 34 has for this purpose two spring clamp ele- ments 38 with an external ridge 40, which when inserted into the cavity 12 (as shown at the top of Fig 2) slides against the wall 32 of the cavity and bends the clamping elements 38 inwards, whereupon a gripping portion 42 on the end of the clamping element is lifted far enough from the wall of the cavity that it passes without touching over the edge portion of a sheet semiconductor element 20 placed against the wall 32 of the cavity.
  • the ridge 40 on the clamping element 38 is designed to snap into a cavity 44 in the wall 32 of the cavity, whereupon the gripping portion 42 presses firmly and with even force against the power semiconductor element 20 or its substrate, at the same time as the seal 36 is compressed at the opening of the cavity to hermetically seal the same, as is shown at the bottom of Figure 2.
  • the cavity 12 can be provided with grooves or shoulders 46,48.
  • the heat sink 10 also has an opening 50 in its mounting flange side 16 for a connector 52 of insulating material, which has soldered-in contact pins 54 and 56 for power con ⁇ nection with the corresponding contact elements 24 of the coupling plate 22 and the contact elements 28 of the control electronics unit 26.
  • the connector 52 has a peripheral seal 58 for sealing against a shoulder 60.
  • a lock ring 62 is arranged to be inserted in a groove 64 to fix the connector 52 in the heat sink 10 with the seal 58 comoressed.
  • the coupling plate 22 is made as a circuit board which is somewhat movably mounted relative to the rigidly fixed semi ⁇ conductor element 20 and is joined thereto via flexible con ⁇ ductors 66.
  • this substrate and the coupling plate 22 be made from a common flat sheet element, which after being cut up is divided into separate components, connected to each other resiliently and movably via the conductor pattern, corresponding to the conductors 66 in Fig 1.
  • the flexible conductors 66 allow the coupling plate 22 to move somewhat in its own plane and axially during in ⁇ sertion of the connector 52 into its opening 50, when the contact pins 54 are centered in their associated contact ele- ments 24 without this affecting the position of the fixed power semiconductor element 20.
  • thermal material movements in the various electronics components can be ab ⁇ sorbed by this flexible mounting of the coupling plate.
  • the contact pins 56 extend freely through the holes in the coup- ling plate 22 into contact with the corresponding contact elements 28 of the control electronics unit 26.
  • the two end covers 34 with their clamping elements 38 can be inserted into the cavity 12 at either end thereof to seal the cavity 12 by means of seals 36 and at the same time clamp the substrate with its power semiconductor element 20 against the cavity wall 32 with the aid of the gripping portions 42.
  • the connector 52 is removed and the cavity 12 is then filled with said liquid through the opening 50. Finally, the connector 52 is remounted.
  • a pressure equalizing elastic element 68 can be mounted between the clamping elements 38 of the end covers 34.
  • the invention provides a cooling device and a sheet power electronics element especially suited thereto, and this provides i.a. the following advantages:

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Abstract

The invention relates to a device for cooling sheet elements (20) for power electronics, comprising a heat sink (10) provided with cooling fins (14). Said heat sink delimiting an enclosed cavity (12), against the interior wall (32) of which a power electronics element (20) is intended to be fixed. The heat sink (10) is hermetically sealable.

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Device for cooling sheet elements for power electronics
The present invention relates to an invention for sheet elements for power electronics, such as power semiconductors or power semiconductors mounted on substrates, said device comprising a heat sink provided with cooling fins and being composed of a material with good thermoconductivity and on which the power electronics elements are intended to be mounted in a heat transferring manner.
Heat generating semiconductors require in most applications some form of cooler to maintain the operating temperature at an acceptably low level. Usually separate encapsuled power semiconductors are mounted on one or more finned cooling elements, which are in turn mounted on circuit boards. Alter¬ natively, power semiconductors are first mounted as naked chips on a substrate, which is in turn mounted in a protec¬ tive plastic casing. In order to protect these chips and any associated control electronics elements from dirt and oxida¬ tion, the space in the casing is partially filled with a silicone gel, for example. The rest of the space is filled out with an epoxy mixture. Such a semiconductor construction is usually called a "power module". The plastic casing of the power module is usually fixed with screws or adhesive on the outside of a cooling element. In order to achieve even mount¬ ing force of the semiconductor against the cooler when using screws, spring washers must be employed, which when mounted must be carefully compressed so that they can move as the temperature changes.
A general purpose of the present invention is to achieve improved cooling of power electronics elements at the same time as they can be protected in a better and simpler manner against chemical and mechanical damage.
In its broadest aspect, this is achieved in principle accord- ing to the invention by virtue of the fact that the required encapsuling of the power electronics element is effected by the cooling element itself, which simultaneously has the function of a very effective cooler and a capsule for the power electronics element. The heat sink itself is thus made to delimit an enclosed cavity, which has at least one wall side on which at least one sheet element for power electro¬ nics is intended to be fixed, said heat sink having at least one opening through which the power electronics element can be inserted into the cavity and which can be sealed by means of a cover.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the heat sink is made of an extruded hollow profile with cooling fins, both ends of said profile being sealable by means of respective covers. This provides a heat sink with a large cooling surface by virtue of the fact that its external surfaces have cooling fins to the greatest possible extent in order to effectively dissipate heat from the power electro¬ nics element(s) mounted against an interior cavity wall in the heat sink.
Suitably the cover or covers are provided with means for clamping the sheet element for power electronics against the interior side wall of the hollow profile, especially of the type described in more detail in our copending patent appli¬ cation SE-A-9203532-8 with the title "Means for fixing elec¬ tronics elements in sheet form", said cover simultaneously hermetically sealing the cavity and clamping the sheet ele¬ ment for power electronics against a cavity wall in the heat sink.
According to another aspect of the device according to the invention the heat sink is provided with an entry hole commu¬ nicating with the cavity and in which a connector is disposed to be fixed, said connector having contact elements for power connection to corresponding contact elements on a connector element associated with the power electronics element, said connector being coordinated with a seal for hermitically sealing the entry hole. This provides power supply to the electronics element inside the heat sink at the same time as the cavity is sealed so that it can enclose diffusion-tight a protective and/or cooling medium for the electronics compo¬ nents therein.
Further advantages and features of the invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the accom¬ panying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a heat sink in the form of a hollow profile with a sheet element for power electronics mounted therein with associa¬ ted coupling elements and a signal electronics unit, and
Figure 2 is a sectional view along the line A-A in Figure 1 but with the coupling and signal electronics ele¬ ments omitted.
In Figure 1 the numeral 10 designates a heat sink in the form of an extruded hollow profile, preferably of aluminum, with essentially rectangular cross-sectional shape. The profile 10 has an inner cavity 12, and three of its four sides provided with cooling fins 14. The upper side 16 of the hollow profile in Figure 1 is a mounting flange for mounting the heat sink
10 on a supporting component. The heat sink 10 is intended to hermitacally enclose an electronics unit 18, which in the example shown consists of a power semiconductor element 20 mounted on a sheet substrate, a connecting plate 22 with contact elements 24 and a control or signal electronics unit 26 with a contact element 28 and legs 30 connecting the control electronics unit 26 with the power semiconductor 20.
The sheet power electronics element 20 is designed to be clamped with even force against the wall 32 of the cavity 12, so that heat generated in the power semiconductor element 20 can be effectively drained off to the heat sink 10 and its cooling fins 14. In order to achieve a protective hermetic encapsuling of the entire electronics unit 18 in the cavity 12 in the heat sink 10, the end openings of the cavity 12 can be sealed by means of end covers 34 (Fig 2) . The end covers 34 are suitably made in a manner which is described in more detail in our copending SE-A 9203532-8 and each cover has the double function of simultaneously clamping the semiconductor element 20 with even force against the wall 32 of the cavity and hermetically sealing the respective end opening of the cavity 12 by means of seals 36 on the periphery of the cover 34. The cover 34 has for this purpose two spring clamp ele- ments 38 with an external ridge 40, which when inserted into the cavity 12 (as shown at the top of Fig 2) slides against the wall 32 of the cavity and bends the clamping elements 38 inwards, whereupon a gripping portion 42 on the end of the clamping element is lifted far enough from the wall of the cavity that it passes without touching over the edge portion of a sheet semiconductor element 20 placed against the wall 32 of the cavity. The ridge 40 on the clamping element 38 is designed to snap into a cavity 44 in the wall 32 of the cavity, whereupon the gripping portion 42 presses firmly and with even force against the power semiconductor element 20 or its substrate, at the same time as the seal 36 is compressed at the opening of the cavity to hermetically seal the same, as is shown at the bottom of Figure 2.
In order to facilitate insertion of the power electronics element 20 and its coupling plate 22 through one opening in the cavity 12 prior to insertion of the cover 34, the cavity 12 can be provided with grooves or shoulders 46,48.
The heat sink 10 also has an opening 50 in its mounting flange side 16 for a connector 52 of insulating material, which has soldered-in contact pins 54 and 56 for power con¬ nection with the corresponding contact elements 24 of the coupling plate 22 and the contact elements 28 of the control electronics unit 26. The connector 52 has a peripheral seal 58 for sealing against a shoulder 60. A lock ring 62 is arranged to be inserted in a groove 64 to fix the connector 52 in the heat sink 10 with the seal 58 comoressed. The coupling plate 22 is made as a circuit board which is somewhat movably mounted relative to the rigidly fixed semi¬ conductor element 20 and is joined thereto via flexible con¬ ductors 66. Although not shown in the drawing, it can be suitable - especially where the power electronics element 20 is mounted on a supporting substrate - that this substrate and the coupling plate 22 be made from a common flat sheet element, which after being cut up is divided into separate components, connected to each other resiliently and movably via the conductor pattern, corresponding to the conductors 66 in Fig 1. The flexible conductors 66 allow the coupling plate 22 to move somewhat in its own plane and axially during in¬ sertion of the connector 52 into its opening 50, when the contact pins 54 are centered in their associated contact ele- ments 24 without this affecting the position of the fixed power semiconductor element 20. Furthermore, thermal material movements in the various electronics components can be ab¬ sorbed by this flexible mounting of the coupling plate. The contact pins 56 extend freely through the holes in the coup- ling plate 22 into contact with the corresponding contact elements 28 of the control electronics unit 26.
The mounting of an electronics unit 18 in a heat sink 10 serving at the same time as a casing is done in the following manner:
A pretested and assembled electronics unit 18, consisting of the power semiconductor element 20 mounted on a substrate, the coupling plate 22 and the control electronics unit 26, is inserted into the cavity 12 through one end opening to its intended place, where the substrate is in contact with one of the walls 32 of the cavity. Then the connector 52 is inserted into its opening 50, and the unit 20,22,26 is correctly posi¬ tioned in the cavity 12 with the aid of the contact pins 54,56. The two end covers 34 with their clamping elements 38 can be inserted into the cavity 12 at either end thereof to seal the cavity 12 by means of seals 36 and at the same time clamp the substrate with its power semiconductor element 20 against the cavity wall 32 with the aid of the gripping portions 42. If the cavity 12 is to be filled with a cooling liquid, which also protects the semiconductor chips against any aggressive substances, the connector 52 is removed and the cavity 12 is then filled with said liquid through the opening 50. Finally, the connector 52 is remounted. In order to absorb changes in volume in the cooling medium depending on changes in temperature, a pressure equalizing elastic element 68 can be mounted between the clamping elements 38 of the end covers 34.
The invention provides a cooling device and a sheet power electronics element especially suited thereto, and this provides i.a. the following advantages:
a) Improved cooling and improved protection for the semicon¬ ductor chips by virtue of the fact that they are mounted internally in firm surface contact with a cavity wall in a heat sink means made as an enclosed casing, which can be made diffusion-tight in order to make possible use of a cooling liquid. By virtue of the fact that the heat sink surrounds the semiconductor chips, a large cooling surface is obtained.
b) Simplified mounting process by virtue of the fact that no screws or adhesives are required to fix the semiconductors to the cooling surface.
c) Improved protection against electrostatic discharges and improved electromagnetic compatibility by virtue of the fact that the cooling device surrounds the electronics unit.

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1. Device for cooling sheet power electronics elements, such as power semiconductors or power semiconductors mounted on a substrate, comprising a heat sink (10) provided with cooling fins (14) and being composed of a material with good thermal conductivity and on which the power electronics elements (20) are intended to be mounted in a heat transferring manner, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the heat sink (10) itself is made to delimit a closed cavity (12) , which has at least one wall side (32) , on which at least one sheet power elec- tronics element (20) is intended to be fixed, said heat sink (10) having at least one opening through which the power electronics element (20) can be inserted into the cavity (12) and which can be sealed by means of a cover (34) .
2. Device according to Claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the heat sink (10) is formed of an extruded hollow profile with cooling fins, both ends of said profile being sealable by means of respective covers (34) .
3. Device according to Claim l or 2, c h a r a c t e r ¬ i z e d in that each cover (34) has a sealing means (36) for hermetically sealing the cavity (12) .
4. Device according to one of Claims 1 - 3, c h a r a c t - e r i z e d in that the cover or covers (34) is/are provided with means (38,42) for clamping the sheet power electronics element (20) against the internal side wall (32) of the hollow profile.
5. Device according to one of Claims 1 - 4, c h a r a c t ¬ e r i z e d in that the heat sink (10) is provided with an entry hole (50) communicating with the cavity and in which a connector (52) is disposed to be fixed, said connector (52) having contact elements (54) for power connection to corre- sponding contact elements (24) on a coupling element (22) associated with the power electronics element (20) .
6. Device according to Claim 5, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that a shoulder (48) for the coupling element (22) is made in the cavity (12) to limit the movement of the coupling element (22) inwards therein when the contact elements (54) of the connector (52) are brought into engagement with the contact elements (24) of the coupling element.
7. Device according to Claim 5 or 6, c h a r a c t e r ¬ i z e d in that a seal (58) for hermetic sealing of the entry hole (50) is coordinated with the connector (52) .
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