Vehicular camera apparatus

A vehicular camera apparatus to be fixed to a windshield of a vehicle from a passenger compartment side, the camera apparatus comprising:

• a camera module including a lens and an imaging element;
• a camera case to be fixed to the windshield of the vehicle, the camera case having the camera module received therein;
• and
• a hood provided below the lens,
• wherein
• the hood includes both a rib structure and a hole structure,
• the rib structure is constituted of a plurality of ribs that each protrude upward from a bottom wall of the hood and are arrayed in an optical axis direction of the lens, each of the ribs having a front surface on an opposite side to the lens and a rear surface on the lens side, the front surface making an acute angle with an imaginary plane that contains an upper surface of the bottom wall of the hood, the rear surface making an obtuse angle with the imaginary plane, and
• the hole structure is constituted of a plurality of holes that are formed in the bottom wall of the hood, each of the holes being formed along a corresponding one of the ribs and including, at least, a projection of the front surface of the corresponding rib on the imaginary plane that contains the upper surface of the bottom wall.