Patent ID: 7367724
Filing Date: 2008-05-06
Classification: B29C,B29L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging device comprising: a base on which an imaging element is provided, a cap shaped plastic lens member holding a condensing lens at the inside, and a plastic barrel member in which the lens member can move in an axial direction and provided above the imaging element, wherein the cap shaped plastic lens member is formed at its bottom outer circumference with a male thread able to engage with a female thread formed at a bottom inner circumference of the plastic barrel member, and a facing point between an outer periphery of a ceiling portion of said cap shaped plastic lens member having a lens hole at its center and an upper inside circumference of said plastic barrel member are affixed by a laser weld, wherein the laser weld is formed at a boundary between the outer circumference of the cap shaped plastic lens member and the inner circumference of the plastic barrel member where neither of the members are threaded.