Patent ID: 7945156

Claim:
A camera assembled by attaching a lens unit to inside of a hollow outer cover body that is formed with both top and bottom or right and left end surfaces having openings, the camera comprising: a lens attachment portion for attaching the lens unit, which is formed in the outer cover body; a lens opening portion formed in the outer cover body, through which a lens barrel of the lens unit attached to the lens attachment portion is inserted; a hole formed in a surface of the outer cover body other than the surfaces where the openings are formed, through which the lens unit can pass so that the lens unit is housed inside the outer cover body and is attached to the lens attachment portion; wherein a width in a front-back direction of the openings formed in the both top and bottom or right and left end surfaces of the outer cover body is formed smaller than a width in a front-back direction of the lens unit, and the lens unit is attached to the lens attachment portion with a top end portion of the lens barrel projecting from the lens opening portion.