Patent ID: 8605211

Claim:
A digital camera module, comprising: a metal back plate; a printed circuit carrier having an opening therein and a rear face against which a portion of the back plate is directly attached to thereby form a cavity, wherein the printed circuit carrier is created separately from the metal back plate; an image sensor device directly attached to the back plate and located inside the cavity, wherein the height of the image sensor device is equal to or less than the height of the cavity, and a plurality of electrical signal connections formed between the image sensor device and the printed circuit carrier; and a cap directly attached to a front face of the printed circuit carrier by a flowable adhesive layer to seal off the cavity, wherein the combination of the metal back plate attached to the rear face of the printed circuit carrier, the height of the cavity in the printed circuit carrier, and the use of the flowable adhesive layer to attach the cap directly to the front face of the printed circuit carrier together yields a shorter profile for the digital camera module.