Patent ID: 8300094

Claim:
An image pickup module comprising: a lens having a flange part, said lens and flange part being integrally formed of a light transmitting material, and an image pickup element which a top portion of the flange part touches; a frame component that forms a lens assembly together with the lens having the flange part, the frame component being constructed and arranged to shade an outer circumferential surface of the lens excluding a neighborhood of the top portion of the flange part; and illumination elements arranged around the lens assembly and the image pickup element; wherein the image pickup module is constructed and arranged so that light emergent from light-emitting surfaces of the illumination elements fails to directly reach an exposed portion, which fails to be shaded by the frame component, of the flange part, and an inner circumferential surface of the flange part has an inclined surface such that a diameter of the inner circumferential surface becomes larger as the inclined surface approaches said image pickup element.