Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention provides an internal connection structure of an electrode pin of a power module and the power module.
The technical problems solved by the invention can be realized by adopting the following technical scheme:
A power module electrode pin internal connection structure, comprising:
The shell is provided with an electrode needle in an injection molding mode in advance;
the insulating substrate is arranged in the shell and is provided with a conductive copper strip;
The insulating substrate is connected with the bottom of the electrode needle through the conductive copper strip through copper-copper bonding processes.
Preferably, the insulating substrate further comprises a front copper foil layer;
the conductive copper strip is obtained by three-dimensional treatment of the edge of the front copper foil layer.
Preferably, the insulating substrate further comprises a back copper foil layer and a ceramic layer positioned between the front copper foil layer and the back copper foil layer.
Preferably, the ceramic layer is made of alumina ceramic.
Preferably, the conductive copper strip is made of red copper material.
Preferably, the electrode needle is made of pure copper material.
Preferably, the insulating substrate is a direct copper-clad substrate.
Preferably, the housing is made of plastic.
Preferably, the insulating substrates comprise a plurality of insulating substrates, and different insulating substrates are connected through an aluminum wire bonding process.
The invention also provides a power module which comprises the internal connection structure of the electrode needle of the power module.
The technical scheme of the invention has the advantages that:
The insulating substrate adopts the conductive copper strip as a connecting medium to be in copper-copper bonding with the electrode needle, compared with the connecting mode of aluminum wire bonding, the connecting area of the conductive copper strip is increased, the ultrasonic power is high, the bonding process requirement is reduced, the insulating substrate and the electrode needle are not directly subjected to copper-copper bonding process treatment, the risk of ceramic damage in the bonding process to reduce the insulating capability of the insulating substrate is avoided, meanwhile, heat generated at a bonding point can be dissipated from the insulating substrate, the material requirement on a plastic shell and the electrode needle is reduced, and the cost can be greatly reduced.
Detailed Description
The invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings and specific examples. The present invention is not limited to the embodiment, and other embodiments may fall within the scope of the present invention as long as they conform to the gist of the present invention.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, based on the above-mentioned problems existing in the prior art, there is now provided an internal connection structure of an electrode pin 2 of a power module, which belongs to the technical field of power modules, as shown in fig. 5-6, and includes:
the electrode needle comprises a shell 1, wherein an electrode needle 2 is injection-molded on the shell 1 in advance;
An insulating substrate 3 disposed inside the housing 1, the insulating substrate 3 having a conductive copper tape 4;
the insulating substrate 3 is connected with the bottom of the electrode needle 2 through a copper-copper bonding process through a conductive copper strip 4.
Specifically, in this embodiment, the plurality of electrode pins 2 are embedded and distributed on the housing 1, and the housing 1 is generally a plastic housing 1 and is connected to the plastic housing 1 by integral injection molding. The insulating substrate 3 is arranged in the shell 1, preferably, the insulating substrate 3 is a direct copper-clad substrate (directbonding copper, DBC), the insulating substrate 3 adopts a conductive copper strip 4 as a connecting medium to be in copper-copper bonding with the bottom of the electrode needle 2, and compared with the connecting mode of aluminum wire bonding, the connecting area of the conductive copper strip 4 is increased, the ultrasonic power is high, and the requirement on the surface cleanliness of the electrode needle 2 is reduced, so that the bonding process requirement is reduced.
Aiming at the prior art that the insulating substrate 3 and the electrode needle 2 are directly subjected to copper-copper bonding process treatment, the invention creatively proposes to adopt the conductive copper strip 4 as a connecting medium, and avoids the risk of damaging the ceramic layer of the insulating substrate 3 in the direct bonding process to reduce the insulating capability of the insulating substrate.
Furthermore, the thermal resistance of the ceramic layer is far lower than that of the plastic, so that heat generated at the bonding point can be emitted from the ceramic layer of the insulating substrate 3, the electrode needle 2 is prevented from falling off due to high and low temperature stress generated at the bonding point, the material requirements on the plastic shell 1 and the electrode needle 2 are reduced, the cost can be greatly reduced, and the service life of the power module is prolonged.
As a preferred embodiment, wherein the insulating substrate 3 further comprises a front copper foil layer;
The conductive copper strip 4 is obtained by three-dimensional treatment of the edge of the front copper foil layer.
Specifically, the front copper foil layer of the existing insulating substrate 3 is planar, and the embodiment of the invention performs three-dimensional treatment on the front copper foil layer of the existing planar, so that the copper foil at the edge of the insulating substrate 3 can be prolonged to form the conductive copper strip 4. The copper-copper bonding connection between the insulating substrate 3 and the electrode needle 2 is realized by using the conductive copper tape 4 obtained by extension as a connection medium.
As a preferred embodiment, the conductive copper strip 4 is made of a red copper material.
Specifically, in this embodiment, the conductive copper strip 4 is made of red copper, which is soft, has good electrical conductivity and plasticity, and has good thermal conductivity, ductility, weldability and corrosion resistance. The conductive copper strip 4 is adopted to replace the existing aluminum wire bonding wire 5, the contact area of the joint is increased, when heat is generated at the bonding point, the generated heat can be transferred to the insulating substrate 3 through the conductive copper strip 4 and then dissipated through the ceramic layer, so that the electrode needle 2 is prevented from falling off due to overhigh heat at the bonding point, and the problem of heat dissipation of the bonding point is solved.
As a preferred embodiment, the insulating substrate 3 further includes a back copper foil layer, and a ceramic layer between the front copper foil layer and the back copper foil layer.
As a preferred embodiment, the ceramic layer is made of aluminum oxide (Al 2O3) ceramic.
Specifically, in this embodiment, the insulating substrate 3 has a three-dimensional structure with a conductive copper strip 4, specifically includes a front copper foil layer, and an edge copper foil of the front copper foil layer can be prolonged to form a conductive passband, and an Al 2O3 ceramic layer and a back copper foil layer are disposed in the middle, so as to replace the existing planar DBC board.
As a preferred embodiment, the electrode needle 2 is made of pure copper material.
Specifically, in the embodiment, the electrode needle 2 made of pure copper material is adopted to replace the electrode needle 2 made of the existing copper-aluminum composite material. The electrode needle 2 made of pure copper material and the DBC plate with the extension copper foil are electrically connected through a copper-copper bonding process, and the copper atoms of the conductive copper belt 4 and the copper atoms of the electrode needle 2 are bonded by using ultrasonic energy through taking the conductive copper belt 4 of the DBC plate as a connecting medium.
As a preferred embodiment, the housing 1 is made of plastic.
As a preferred embodiment, wherein the insulating substrates 3 include a plurality of different insulating substrates 3 connected by an aluminum wire bonding process.
Specifically, in this embodiment, the plastic housing 1 of the power module is provided with a plurality of insulating substrates 3, and the insulating substrates 3 are DBC boards, and the sizes and shapes of the DBC boards may be the same or different. The front copper foil layers of different insulating substrates 3 are connected through an aluminum wire bonding process.
The invention also provides a power module which comprises the internal connection structure of the electrode needle 2 of the power module.
The insulating substrate has the advantages that the conductive copper strips are used as the connecting medium to be in copper-copper bonding with the electrode pins, compared with the aluminum wire bonding connecting mode, the connecting area of the conductive copper strips is increased, the ultrasonic power is high, bonding process requirements are reduced, the insulating substrate and the electrode pins are not directly subjected to copper-copper bonding process treatment, the risk of ceramic damage in the bonding process to reduce insulating capacity is avoided, heat generated at bonding points can be dissipated from the insulating substrate, material requirements on a plastic shell and the electrode pins are reduced, and cost can be greatly reduced.
The foregoing description is only illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention, and it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that equivalent substitutions and obvious variations may be made using the description and drawings, and are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.