Patent ID: 8081059

Claim:
A method of making a chip resistor, the method comprising the steps of: patterning a first insulation film on a surface of a metal resistor element, the metal resistor element being thicker than any other element of the chip resistor to serve as a sole supporting substrate on which any other element of the chip resistor is formed; after patterning the first insulation film on the surface of the metal resistor element, forming a conductive layer on a region of said surface of the resistor element in which the first insulation film is not present; after forming the conductive layer on the region of said surface of the resistor element in which the first insulation film is not present, patterning a second insulation film on said surface of the resistor element so that the second film extends on both the first insulation film and the conductive layer; and dividing the resistor element into a plurality of chips so that part of the conductive layer is formed into a pair of electrodes spaced from each other via part of the first insulation film.