Patent ID: 8670067

Claim:
A camera apparatus, comprising: a lens block having an image capturing lens provided therein; a substrate having an image pickup element mounted thereto; a housing for accommodating therein said lens block and said substrate; and a supporting block for supporting said substrate so that said image pickup element and said image capturing lens face each other by bonding thereto said substrate by using an adhesive agent, wherein said supporting block has a plurality of side surfaces, each making a right angle with a respective adhesion surface to which said substrate is bonded, and a bottom surface parallel with said adhesion surfaces, and a filling groove which is filled with said adhesive agent is formed in said supporting block between said side surfaces and extending across an entirety of a whole width of the supporting block, the width of the supporting block being perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the supporting block, wherein the supporting block includes a deep groove portion formed more deeply than the filling groove and formed in an end portion in the longitudinal direction of the supporting block.