Patent ID: 7998805

Claim:
A method for producing an electrical component that is sensitive to electrostatic discharge (ESD), which comprises: applying a structured metallization at a substrate to create component structures that are part of a single completed electrical component, the component structures including electrical conductor tracks at least one of on and in the substrate, at least two of the component structures being electrically separated from one another; providing at least two electrical terminals at the substrate accessible from outside the substrate; providing at least one shunt line at the substrate, the at least one shunt line: having at least one portion in which a line cross-section thereof is smaller than a cross-section of the electrical conductor tracks; electrically short-circuiting two of the electrically separated component structures; and running between two of the at least two electrical terminals; the at least one shunt line, the at least two terminals, the substrate, and the component structures forming at least a portion of the single completed electrical component; after forming the single completed electrical component, applying a current to the electrical terminals connected with the shunt line sufficient to burn through the portion of the shunt line having the reduced cross-section and, thus, remove the short-circuit; wherein the substrate is one of a pyro-electrical material and a piezo-electrical material; and wherein the electrical component is one of a MEMS component, a SAW component, and an FBAR component.