Patent ID: 7777978

Claim:
A lens barrel comprising: a lens holding member that holds a lens; and a voice coil motor that drives the lens holding member along a guide member, wherein: a coil of the voice coil motor is fixedly attached on the lens holding member; a magnetic circuit element is formed by a yoke of the voice coil motor and by a board-shaped magnet attached to the yoke; and the magnetic circuit element is fixedly attached on a fixed portion that holds the lens holding member, wherein a stick of magnetic member is fixedly attached on the lens holding member, and the lens holding member is shifted in one direction relative to the guide member by means of a magnetic attraction force acting between the stick of magnetic member and the board-shaped magnet of the voice coil motor, and wherein a movable range of the stick of magnetic member in the optical axis direction is within a range of an entire length of the board-shaped magnet along the optical axis direction.