Abstract:
An external heat sink (2) may be soldered to a metal slug (3) incorporated at the bottom of a molded body (4) of encapsulating resin of the package of an integrated power device for surface mounting on printed circuit board (7). The metal slug (3) has at least a portion protruding from an outer surface of at least one face of the body (4); an external metal heat sink (2), geometrically coupling with the packaged device over the printed circuit board (7), has at least a surface abutting with a surface of the resin body (4) thus defining a separation gap (10) between at least a surface of said protruding portion of the metal slug (3) and a surface (5, 9a, 9b) opposed to it of the external metal heat sink (2) that gets filled with molten solder alloy (8) during the normal soldering treatment to which the board is subjected.