Patent ID: 7913367

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric component with a piezoelectric element having a piezoelectric substrate, at least on oscillating section formed on said piezoelectric substrate, a piezoelectric element wiring section connected to said oscillating section, and where a side face side hollow section forming layer and a lid face side hollow section forming layer made of photosensitive resin surround a top face and side face of said oscillating section while forming a gap so as to provide a hollow section, and further provided with: an insulating protective film made of photosensitive resin that covers and protects the top face of said piezoelectric element wiring section and is separated from an electrode formation section, the insulating protective film also covers and protects a side face of the side face side hollow section forming layer and a top face of said lid face side hollow section forming layer; an insulating layer made of photosensitive resin that covers and seals an entire top face of said insulating protective film; through electrodes that are interposed in through holes through-formed in said insulating layer so as to connect to said piezoelectric element wiring section; and external electrode terminals that are formed on the outer face of said insulating layer so as to connect to said through electrode, said method comprising the steps of: forming said one oscillating section and said piezoelectric element wiring section on a collective substrate having undivided pieces of said piezoelectric substrate, and further carrying out a predetermined patterning; coating, light-exposing, and developing the photosensitive resin that serves as said side face side hollow section forming layer on said piezoelectric substrate, and subsequently coating, light-exposing, and developing a photosensitive resin layer on the layer that serves as said side face side hollow section forming layer so as to form said lid face side hollow section forming layer; removing patterns from locations on said photosensitive resin layers that correspond to said electrode formations section; forming, by means of sputtering, an insulating protective film on said side face side hollow section forming layer and said lid face side hollow section forming layer; removing portions of said insulating protective film that correspond to the electrode formation section, by means of photolithography and etching; coating a photosensitive resin on said entire top face of said insulating protective film so as to form at least one insulating layer, forming said through holes in said insulating layer, and directly forming said through electrodes by filling said through holes with plating on said element wiring section; forming a metallic plating on a top face of said insulating layer, and then forming said external electrodes by means of plating on a distal end of said through electrodes; and dicing said processed collective substrate along dicing marks into individual pieces.