Patent ID: 8542308

Claim:
A digital photographing apparatus comprising: a lens unit frame having an opening through which light enters from a forward direction, and having a lens unit to be disposed inside the lens unit frame, or having a lens barrel comprising a lens unit to be disposed inside the lens unit frame; and a lens unit base disposed at a rear of the lens unit frame so as to be coupled to the lens unit frame; wherein: the lens unit frame comprises a first opening; the lens unit frame and the lens unit base are disposed to form a gap between the lens unit frame and the lens unit base, thereby forming a second opening corresponding to the gap; the first opening and the second opening are located at a same angle about a central axis of the lens barrel, each of the first opening and the second opening extending entirely between respective beginning and ending walls, each beginning and ending wall spaced radially from each other about the central axis, and no portion of the first opening and the second opening are on opposite sides of the lens barrel from each other; and a printed circuit board (PCB) emerges from the inside of the lens unit frame to the outside of the lens unit frame through the first opening or the second opening wherein if the PCB is a first length it emerges through the first opening and if the PCB is a second length different than the first length it emerges through the second opening.