Patent ID: 7268016
Filing Date: 2007-09-11
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. A method for manufacturing a solid-state imaging device, comprising: resin-molding a housing comprising a base and frame-shaped ribs in one piece with a plurality of metal lead pieces, forming internal terminal portions, external terminal portions and lateral terminal portions with the metal lead pieces, and providing a lower step that is lowered along an internal periphery so as to form a stepped portion on a top face of the ribs; fixing an imaging element onto the base inside an internal space of the housing; connecting electrodes of the imaging element respectively to the inner terminal portions of the metal lead pieces; providing an adhesive on an upper face of the lower step; placing a transparent plate having a site capable of being mounted onto the upper face of the lower step within a region inward of an inner wall formed by the stepped portion of the ribs on the adhesive to be fixed to the upper face of the lower step while regulating its position with the inner wall of the stepped portion; and removing all of the stepped portion of the ribs so that the end face of the transparent plate is flush with the side face of the rib and the lateral terminal portion.