Camera module
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsMasaru KOBAYASHI, Tatsuhiko HAGIHARA
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Abstract
A camera module according to one embodiment of this invention has a sensor substrate, a lens holder, and a shield being fixed to the lens holder. The lens holder is composed of a tubular portion including a lens and a top board having an opening. The lens holder is fixed by a second adhesive provided more inside than an edge of the sensor substrate. The shield has a tubular portion and a top board. The tubular portion is composed of a small-diameter portion, a step portion, and a large-diameter portion. The shield is disposed so that the step portion is in contact with a portion between the edge of the sensor substrate and the second adhesive, and, at the same time, the top board of the lens holder is located in an opening formed in the top board of the shield.
Claims17
A camera module, comprising:
- a sensor substrate having a sensor part and having on its rear surface an external electrode electrically connected to the sensor part;
- a lens holder being fixed by an adhesive provided more inside than an edge of a front surface of the sensor substrate and having a tubular portion including a lens and a top board having an opening provided at an upper end of the tubular portion;
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- a shield being fixed to the lens holder and having a tubular portion composed of a small-diameter portion, a step portion provided at a lower end of the small-diameter portion, and a large-diameter portion provided on a lower surface of the step portion and a top board having an opening provided at an upper end of the tubular portion,
- wherein the step portion of the shield is in contact with a portion between the edge and the adhesive of the front surface of the sensor substrate, and, at the same time, the top board of the shield is disposed so that the top board of the lens holder is located in the opening of the top board of the shield.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.