Patent ID: 9325921
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H01L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for manufacturing an imaging apparatus, the method comprising: providing a sensor unit in which a solid-state imaging device is mounted on a substrate and a bonding wire electrically connects a lead island formed on the substrate to a pad formed on the solid-state imaging device; covering the sensor unit with an optical unit from above, the optical unit including a frame member and an optical member, the frame member having a frame-like shape that surrounds side portions of the solid-state imaging device and having a leg portion that is formed on a lower surface of the frame member and covers the pad from above, the optical member being light transmissive and accommodated in the frame member; integrally fixing the frame member to the solid-state imaging device in such a way that the optical member faces an imaging surface of the solid-state imaging device and an end of the bonding wire that is connected to the pad is covered with the leg portion; applying an adhesive in such a way that the end of the bonding wire that is connected to the pad is covered with the adhesive; moving the frame member downward from the above sensor unit, to the which the adhesive has been applied, in such a way that the adhesive adheres to the leg portion so that the leg portion is bonded to the pad to which the bonding wire has been connected; and allowing the frame member to be fixed to the solid-state imagining device with the adhesive, wherein