Patent ID: 8488045

Claim:
A stereoscopic camera for recording surroundings, comprising a right image sensor and a left image sensor, a lens associated with each image sensor to display the surroundings on the image sensors, with the image sensors being held next to each other and at a distance in reference to each other by a common carrier underlying the image sensors, and a circuit board arranged atop the carrier and at least provided with signaling and supply lines for both image sensors, wherein each image sensor is mounted on a separate carrier substrate, the lenses and both carrier substrates are arranged atop the carrier and distanced from the circuit board, and the image sensors are connected to the signaling and supply lines via flexible connections, and further comprising a lens fastener for mounting at least one lens above one image sensor, the lens fastener being made from an optically dense material, the lens fastener together with the carrier forming a hollow space around the at least one image sensor by the lens fastener being mounted optically dense atop the carrier, the lens fastener having a opening at a side of the lens fastener, the circuit board extending through the opening to reach into the hollow space providing a joint between the lens fastener and the circuit board, the joint being closed with a flexible and optically dense joint material, the flexible connections being located within said hollow space, and the lens fastener and the carrier substrates being connected to the circuit board only flexibly.