Patent ID: 7497632

Claim:
A camera device comprising a camera, a camera housing for covering said camera, and a blowing section, wherein said camera and said camera housing form a shooting window portion of a double structure with the two structures overlaying each other having a clearance in between, and a blowing tunnel communicated with the clearance of said shooting window portion is arranged on each of both sides of said shooting window portion, and said blowing section sends a wind to said shooting window portion through said blowing tunnel, wherein said camera and said camera housing have a camera dome cover and a housing dome cover, respectively with said two dome covers overlying each other, wherein said camera housing has a front face to which said housing dome cover is attached, and said front face comprises a tunnel wall portion formed on each of the upper and lower sides of said shooting window portion, and wherein said tunnel wall portion is located in part in the transverse direction, and the surface of said tunnel wall portion is projected outside from the surface of the remaining portion of said front face which is close to the outer surface of said camera.