Image pickup unit and method of manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8947594-B2
Application number	US-201414269774-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 5, 2014
Priority date	Oct 9, 2009
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

An image pickup unit according to the present invention includes: a lens frame that internally holds an image pickup optical system; and a backside illuminated image pickup device which has a light-receiving section that receives light entering the lens frame via the image pickup optical system and which is held inside the lens frame, wherein a claw portion of the lens frame abuts an opposing surface that opposes a light-entering surface of the image pickup device so as to define a position of the image pickup optical system in an optical axis direction L with respect to the light-receiving section using the opposing surface as a reference.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image pickup unit comprising:
a frame body;
an image pickup optical system disposed in the frame body at a first location in an optical axis direction;
a backside illuminated image pickup device disposed in the frame body at a second location in the optical axis direction so as to define a gap between the image pickup optical system and the image pickup device, the image pickup device having a light-receiving section that receives light first entering…

Assignees

• Olympus Corp

Inventors

• Fujimori Noriyuki

Classifications

• H04N23/54 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/55

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/57

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/2257

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/2254

  Electricity · mapped topic