Optical semiconductor device
An integral-detem-type optical semiconductor device employing lead frame(s) 11 , shield case region(s) 111 created by bending portion(s) of lead frame(s) 11 extending to the exterior being disposed between light-emitting lens portion(s) 19 and light-receiving lens portion(s) 18 of resin package(s) 17 produced as a result of encapsulation by translucent resin(s).
1. An optical semiconductor device which receives and emits light employing one or more lead frames;
wherein at least one shield case, created by bending at least a portion of at least one lead frame which extends to the exterior, is disposed between at least one light-emitting lens portion and at least one light-receiving lens portion of at least one resin package produced as a result of encapsulation of said semiconductor device by at least one translucent resin.
2. The optical semiconductor device according to claim 1 wherein at least one notch is provided at at least one location at which said at least one lead frame serving as said at least one shield case is bent.
3. The optical semiconductor device according to claim 1 wherein said at least one shield case also serves as a heat-dissipating plate.
4. The optical semiconductor device according to claim 1 wherein at least one top surface of the bent said at least one lead frame is flat so as to permit said at least one top surface to serve as at least one surface to which adhesion is made during mounting.
5. The optical semiconductor device according to claim 1 wherein at least one side surface of the bent said at least one lead frame is flat so as to permit said at least one side surface to serve as at least one surface to which adhesion is made during mounting.
6. The optical semiconductor device according to claim 1 wherein
at least one terminal produced from one of the same and a different said at least one lead frame is bent so as to be more or less parallel to said at least one resin package; and
at least one recess making way for said at least one bent terminal is created at said at least one resin package.
7. The optical semiconductor device according to claim 1 wherein at least one opening for facilitating bending is provided at at least one location at which said at least one lead frame serving as said at least one shield case is bent.
8. The optical semiconductor device according to claim 1 wherein at least one distal end portion of said at least one lead frame serving as said at least one shield case is bent.
9. An integral-detem-type optical semiconductor device employing one or more lead frames;
wherein at least one light-emitting element, at least one light-receiving element, and at least one signal processing IC chip mounted on at least one lead frame are encapsulated by at least one translucent resin; and
at least one domain, exclusive of at least one terminal which is exposed amid at least one resin-encapsulated region and exclusive of at least one region corresponding to at least one light-receiving lens portion and at least one light-emitting lens portion produced in said at least one resin-encapsulated region, is further encapsulated by at least one optically shielding and electrically conductive secondary encapsulation resin.
10. The optical semiconductor device according to claim 9 wherein at least one recess making way for at least one terminal produced by bending of at least one lead frame is created at at least one side of at least one resin package produced as a result of encapsulation by said at least one optically shielding and electrically conductive secondary encapsulation resin.
11. The optical semiconductor device according to claim 9 wherein at least one recess is created at at least one location, on at least one surface of at least one resin package produced as a result of encapsulation by said at least one optically shielding and electrically conductive secondary encapsulation resin, that would otherwise interfere with at least one terminal produced by bending of at least one lead frame.
12. The optical semiconductor device according to claim 6 or 11 wherein
a plurality of the recesses are created;
a plurality of terminals are created; and
at least one pitch between at least a portion of the plurality of recesses more or less conforms to at least one pitch between at least a portion of the plurality of terminals.