Patent ID: 9568705
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G02B,G03B,H04M,H04N,Y10T

Claim:
1. A camera module, comprising: an optical section including an image pickup lens and a lens barrel holding the image pickup lens; and a lens driving device which includes a lens holder holding the optical section and which drives the optical section and the lens holder integrally with each other in at least an optical axis direction, wherein the optical section and the lens driving device are provided on an upper side of a sensor cover covering an image pickup element of an image pickup section, the lens holder and the lens barrel are not provided with a thread groove, the lens barrel is fixed to the lens holder, a first gap section is provided between a bottom plane of the lens barrel and a top plane of the sensor cover in an optical axis direction, a second gap section is provided between a bottom plane of the image pickup lens and the top plane of the sensor cover, without any support between the bottom plane of the image pickup lens and the top plane of the sensor cover, a bottom plane of the lens holder and the top plane of the sensor cover face each other and are separated by a third gap section in the optical axis direction, and the first gap section between the bottom plane of the lens barrel and the top plane of the sensor cover in the optical axis direction is shorter in length than the third gap section between the bottom plane of the lens holder and the top plane of the sensor cover in the optical axis direction, and before being fixed to the lens holder, the lens barrel is slidable in the optical axis direction with respect to the lens holder.