Patent ID: 6664125
Filing Date: 2003-12-16
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a solid-state image pickup device, comprising the steps of:preparing a package including a housing section to house a solid-state image pickup element chip and an opening section in an upper section thereof; sporadically and discontinuously applying an adhesive with a predetermined thickness on a bottom surface of the housing section; moving the solid-state image pickup element toward the housing section, wherein a desired parallelism between the package and the image pickup element is defined by bringing an upper surface of the package into contact with a rear surface of a predetermined reference surface; bringing a rear surface of the solid-state image pickup element into contact with the adhesive and stopping the movement of the element before the element comes into contact with the bottom surface of the housing section; and curing the adhesive while the solid-state image pickup element is floating on the adhesive and fixing the element in the housing section, wherein said package further comprises: a bottom Plate and a side wall defining a space for accommodating the image pickup element chip, and a projected section projecting outwardly from the side wall and parallel to the bottom plate, the projected section having the upper surface for defining a guide plane.