Patent ID: 7652718

Claim:
A camera module comprising: a camera body including a lens-barrel holding a shooting optical system, a substrate attached to said lens-barrel, an image pickup device incorporated in said lens-barrel and operative to pick up an image of an object focused by said shooting optical system and to output an image pickup signal, and a signal processing unit provided on said substrate and operative to receive said image pickup signal outputted from said image pickup device and to perform a predetermined signal processing; and a shield case covering said lens-barrel and said substrate and operative to provide electromagnetic shielding for said image pickup device and said signal processing unit; wherein said shield case has a substrate-covering plate part covering said substrate, and a lock part locked to said camera body and operative to inhibit said substrate-covering plate part from moving away from said substrate; an insulating and elastic cushion material is disposed between said substrate and said substrate-covering plate part; and said cushion material is disposed in a compressed state between said substrate and said substrate-covering plate part by the locking of said lock part to said camera body; wherein said substrate is provided with a ground land set at a reference potential; said substrate-covering plate part is rectangular in shape; said shield case has two opposed pairs of side surface portions which rise from four sides of said substrate-covering plate part and extend along side portions of said lens-barrel; said side surface portion is provided with an arm part which projects from said side surface portion, extends in a direction intersecting with the direction of spacing away and approaching said substrate-covering plate part relative to said substrate, and is elastically deformable in the direction of spacing away and approaching said substrate-covering plate part relative to said substrate; a grounding contact piece capable of making contact with said ground land is provided at the tip end of said arm part; and said grounding contact piece is joined to said ground land.