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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1999
Shiaw-Jong S Chen, Plano, TX (US);
Roger J Hooey, Rockwall, TX (US);
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
An electronics case, a method of manufacturing the same and a power module incorporating the case. In one embodiment, the case includes: (1) an enclosure including a metal substrate and a dielectric material located on inner surfaces of the enclosure that insulate the substrate from electronics components located within the enclosure, the enclosure having an aperture on a major surface thereof and (2) an electrically conductive pin, passing through the aperture and an interior of the enclosure to emerge from the enclosure at a point opposite the major surface, the pin functioning both as a heat sink mount for the case and a case ground pin for the substrate.