System and method for empirically determining shrinkage stresses

Measuring and testing – Specimen stress or strain – or testing by stress or strain... – By loading of specimen

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ABSTRACT:
A system for, and method of, empirically determining stress in a molded package and a power module embodying the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a sensor, having a magnetic core exhibiting a known complex permeability in a control environment, that is embedded within the molded package and therefore subject to the stress and (2) a measurement circuit, coupled to the sensor, that applies a drive signal to the sensor, measures a response signal received from the sensor and uses the drive signal and the response signal to determine a complex permeability under stress of the core. The magnitude of the stress can then be determined from the core's complex permeability under stress.

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U.S. Patent Application entitled "Encapsulated Package for Power Magnetic Devices and Method of Manufacture Therefor" Authors: A.W. Lotfi, J.D. Weld. K.E. Wolf and W.L. Woods: Filed on Feb. 21, 1996: U.S. Serial No. 08/604,637.

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