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US 7,126,101 B2Granted
Image pickup device
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorTakao Yamaguchi
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Abstract
An image pickup device has a hermetic packaging portion for hermetically enclosing an image pickup unit having one solid-state image pickup element. The hermetic packaging portion includes a non-cylindrical portion having a cross section substantially similar to that of the image pickup unit and hermetic joint portions at both the ends of the non-cylindrical portion. Each hermetic joint portion has a nearly R-shaped section.
Claims24
An image pickup device comprising:
- a hermetic packaging portion for hermetically enclosing an image pickup unit having at least one solid-state image pickup element, the hermetic packaging portion comprising:
- a non-cylindrical portion having a cross section substantially similar to that of the image pickup unit and
- two hermetic joint portions at both ends of the non-cylindrical portion, each hermetic joint portion having a cross-section with curved sections forming a cross-sectional shape without corners, said cross-section of said hermetic joint portions being different than said cross section of said non-cylindrical portion.
An image pickup device comprising:
- a hermetic packaging portion for hermetically enclosing an image pickup unit having at least one solid-state image pickup element, the hermetic packaging portion including:
- a non-cylindrical packaging main body which encloses the image pickup unit and has a cross section substantially similar to that of the image pickup unit, and
- hermetic joint portions at both the ends of the packaging main body, each hermetic joint portion having a cross section with curved sections forming a cross sectional shape without corners.
An image pickup device comprising:
- a hermetic packaging portion for hermetically enclosing an image pickup unit having at least one solid-state image pickup element, the hermetic packaging portion including:
- a non-cylindrical packaging main body which encloses the image pickup unit and has a cross section substantially similar to that of the image pickup unit, a front hermetic joint portion for hermetically joining a lens frame to the front end of the packaging main body, and
- a back-end hermetic joint portion for hermetically joining an electrode frame to the back end of the packaging main body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.