Patent ID: 6879488

Claim:
A radio frequency module comprising at least: a first chip forming a heater element on a first surface of a substrate; a second chip forming, on the second surface of the substrate, a device whose operating characteristics vary with temperature change or whose maximum operating temperature is lower than the maximum operating temperature of the first chip; and a multilayer substrate which is comprised of a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of conductor layers and mechanically supports the first chip and the second chip with some of the conductor layers electrically connected with these chips, wherein, the first chip is located on a first conductor pattern which serves as a grounding conductor for the first chip; the second chip is located on a second conductor pattern which serves as a grounding conductor for the second chip; and when the multilayer substrate is fixed on another substrate, it is fixed with its bottom face in contact with the other substrate and the first conductor pattern and another conductor pattern electrically connected with the first conductor pattern are isolated from the second conductor pattern and another conductor pattern electrically connected with the second conductor pattern at the conductor layer in which the second conductor pattern is formed and conductor layers closer to the top face of the multilayer substrate than the conductor layer in which the second conductor pattern is formed.