Patent ID: 8363329

Claim:
A liquid lens apparatus, comprising: a liquid lens element including a main body, a lens surface, and a sealing portion, the main body including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a third substrate that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and forms a liquid chamber, the lens surface being formed of an interface between two liquids which are contained in the liquid chamber and have different refractive indexes and being capable of being electrically deformed, the sealing portion hermetically sealing the main body; and a fixing jig that is engaged with the first substrate and the second substrate, the first substrate and the second substrate sandwiching the third substrate, the fixing jig including a first member and a second member, a portion of the second member being inserted into a portion of the first member, wherein the first member includes a first bonded surface and the second member includes a second bonded surface on the portion of the second member that is inserted into the portion of the first member, and the first bonded surface is bonded to the second bonded surface.