Patent ID: 7435016
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: G03B,H04N,H05K

Abstract:
1. An imaging device comprising: an image sensor on which an object image is formed via a photographing optical system; a radially-retracting device which moves said image sensor between a photographing position, at which said image sensor is located on a common optical axis of said photographing optical system in a photographic state, and a radially-retracted position, at which said image sensor is radially retracted away from said common optical axis in a non-photograph state; and a flexible PWB for electrically connecting said image sensor to an image processing circuit, wherein said flexible PWB includes: a fixed portion positioned in front of said image sensor when said image sensor is at said radially-retracted position of said image sensor; and a free-deformable portion extending from said image sensor toward said fixed portion, wherein said free-deformable portion forms a shape so as to accommodate and cover said image sensor when said image sensor is radially retracted to said radially-retracted position, whereby a portion of said flexible PWB is located between said image sensor and the fixed portion, and wherein said free-deformable portion is extended to form a shape so as to uncover said image sensor when said image sensor is positioned in said photographing position, whereby no portion of said flexible PWB is located in front of said image sensor.