US Patent 7091651 Piezoelectric device and method of manufacture of a piezoelectric device

A piezoelectric device including a piezoelectric resonator element; lead wire(s) having first and second ends with the first end connected to the piezoelectric resonator element for holding the piezoelectric resonator element spaced from the base of a package and having a support substrate for supporting the lead wire, with the lead wire being affixed to an undersurface of the support substrate at or near the second end of the lead wire(s) facing the base of the package and with the undersurface being in an obverse and reverse relationship to an opposite surface facing the resonator element.