Patent ID: 7534645

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a CMOS type of image sensor module, the method comprising: providing a substrate having a base member and a circuit pattern at both sides of the base member; mounting a digital signal processing semiconductor chip, capable of processing a digital signal, and a passive electronic device on a lower one of the sides of the substrate; wire-bonding the digital signal processing semiconductor chip to the circuit pattern at the lower one of the sides of the base member; embedding the digital signal processing semiconductor chip and the passive electronic device in an epoxy molding compound by molding the epoxy molding compound to the lower one of the sides of the substrate over the digital signal processing semiconductor chip; mounting an image sensing semiconductor chip, having a CMOS image sensor capable of picking up an optical image, on an upper one of the sides of the substrate, and wire-bonding the image sensing semiconductor chip to the circuit pattern at the upper one of the sides of the base member; and embedding the image sensing chip in a transparent polymeric material by molding transparent polymeric material to the upper one of the sides of the substrate over the entirety of the image sensing semiconductor chip to thereby form a sealing resin unit in which the image sensing semiconductor chip is encapsulated by the polymeric material.