Patent ID: 7554600

Claim:
A lens-barrel comprising: a frame for holding a lens, the frame having a front end and a rear end; an electrical part provided in the frame; a base provided on the rear end of the frame for supporting the frame in such way that the lens is movable in an axial direction, the base having an opening and a recess; an electrical part flexible substrate inside the frame, having a front end connected to the electrical part and having a rear end extending rearwards; a main flexible substrate outside the frame, including a mounting surface portion mounted to the rear surface of the base, and a movable surface portion extending from the mounting surface portion, the movable surface portion including an undulatable surface portion near the mounting surface portion, undulatable between a bent state in which the undulatable surface portion is bent relative to the mounting surface portion and is kept apart from the rear surface of the base and a flat state in which the undulatable surface portion is flattened and mounted to the rear surface of the base, the lens barrel being made by a process comprising: bending the undulatable surface portion of the movable surface portion of the main flexible substrate to expose the opening and the recess of the base, pulling out the rear end of the electrical part flexible substrate through the opening of the base, soldering the rear end of the electrical part flexible substrate to the undulatable surface portion, and flattening the undulatable surface portion and mounting it to the rear surface of the base to shelter the solders in the isolated space enclosed by the recess of the base and the undulatabe surface portion.