Vehicular camera with enhanced heat dissipation

A vehicular camera module, said vehicular camera module comprising:

• a camera housing;
• an imager printed circuit board accommodated in said camera housing, said imager printed circuit board having a first side and a second side separated by a thickness dimension of said imager printed circuit board;
• an imager disposed at the first side of said imager printed circuit board and aligned with a lens of said vehicular camera module;
• a processor printed circuit board accommodated in said camera housing;
• an image processor disposed at said processor printed circuit board;
• wherein said processor printed circuit board is spaced from and is electrically connected to circuitry of said imager printed circuit board;
• a heat transfer element accommodated in said camera housing;
• wherein the heat transfer element is in thermal conductive contact with the second side of said imager printed circuit board, and wherein said heat transfer element extends through an aperture of said processor printed circuit board;
• wherein said heat transfer element is in thermal conductive contact with an active cooling element;
• wherein circuitry of said vehicular camera module is electrically connected to said imager and said image processor and is electrically connected to electrical connecting elements at said camera housing that are configured to electrically connect to a wire harness of a vehicle when said vehicular camera module is disposed at the vehicle;
• wherein said vehicular camera module is configured to be disposed at the vehicle so as to view exterior of the vehicle;
• and
• wherein, with said electrical connecting elements electrically connected to the wire harness of the vehicle, heat generated by operation of said vehicular camera module is drawn from said imager printed circuit board to said camera housing via said heat transfer element.