Patent ID: 7754130

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a physical quantity sensor, comprising: preparing a lead frame which includes a rectangular frame portion, a plurality of leads protruding out from said rectangular frame portion in the inward direction, and a plurality of stages that are connected to the rectangular frame portion by connecting leads; fixing at least one physical quantity sensor chip to at least one of said stages; inclining said stages and said at least one physical quantity sensor chip with respect to said rectangular frame portion; integrating said at least one physical quantity sensor chip, said stages and said leads within a mold using a resin; and wherein the act of inclining said stages and said at least one physical quantity sensor chip with respect to said rectangular frame portion is carried out during the integrating act by simultaneously pressing a back face of each of said stages by a pressing member, wherein said pressing member is a single pressing member and includes inclined surfaces which respectively make facial contact with at least a part of each of said back faces of said stages, and said back faces of said stages are respectively pressed by one of said inclined surfaces so that the stages are inclined.