Patent ID: 8692931

Claim:
A camera module comprising: a rear lens barrel; a front lens barrel mounted to a front side of the rear lens barrel, the front lens barrel forming along with the rear lens barrel an accommodation space in which an image pickup optical system is accommodated; a shutter section mounted to a front surface of the front lens barrel; and a cover disposed between the front lens barrel and the shutter section and engaged with and stopped by the front lens barrel and the rear lens barrel, the cover clamping the front lens barrel and the rear lens barrel in a front-back direction, wherein the shutter section includes a shutter blade that opens and closes an optical path of the image pickup optical system, an actuator that drives the shutter blade, and a case that accommodates the shutter blade and the actuator and that has an opening for the optical path, and wherein the shutter section is mounted to the front surface of the front lens barrel by stopping a cover-side engagement stopping section of the cover and a case-side engagement stopping section of the case by engaging the cover-side engagement stopping section of the cover and the case-side engagement stopping section of the case with each other, and wherein the front lens barrel includes rear-end surfaces were a peripheral wall faces the hack to provide setting surfaces set upon the rear end barrel and the front lens barrel includes protruding portions from rear end sides at two outer surfaces opposing each other on said peripheral wall.