Patent ID: 8152316

Claim:
An imaging device having a light-shielding area between a cover glass for an imaging element and an optical member arranged adjacent to the cover glass, wherein the light-shielding area has a light-transmitting area that is formed by a part of the light-shielding area on an edge of the optical member being cut off so that one or more corners on a boundary between an image area of the imaging element and an outside of the image area are locatable from an object side, and the following conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 0.3 ≦a/IH≦ 1.5 (1) a 1 ≦a≦a 2 ′ (2) where a 1 =IH−D tan θ 1 , and a 2 ′ denotes a smallest value among the following values a 2 , a 3 , and a 4 : a 2 =2 b−IH−D tan θ 2 , a 3 =b −( D/ 2)×tan θ 3 , a 4 =b−X, where a denotes a distance from an optical axis of the imaging element to the light-shielding area, IH denotes a largest image height in a predetermined direction, along which the distance from the optical axis of the imaging element to the light-shielding area is measured to be a, from the optical axis of the imaging element toward the light-shielding area, D denotes a thickness of the cover glass, θ 1 denotes an angle formed by a light ray having a largest light-ray height at a position of the light-shielding area among light rays directly incident at a position corresponding to the largest image height in the imaging element with the optical axis, b denotes a distance from a center axis of the cover glass to a lateral surface of the cover glass in the predetermined direction, along which the distance from the optical axis of the imaging element to the light-shielding area is measured to be a, from the optical axis of the imaging element toward the light-shielding area, θ 2 denotes an angle formed by a light ray having a largest light-ray height at the position of the light-shielding area among light rays that are reflected by the lateral surface of the cover glass to be directly incident at the position corresponding to the largest image height with the optical axis, θ 3 denotes an angle formed by a light ray having a largest light-ray height at the position of the light-shielding area among light rays incident on a middle portion of the lateral surface of the cover glass in the predetermined direction, along which the distance from the optical axis of the imaging element to the light-shielding area is measured to be a, from the optical axis of the imaging element toward the light-shielding area, with the optical axis, and X denotes a height of a burr on an object-side surface of the cover glass in the predetermined direction, along which the distance from the optical axis of the imaging element to the light-shielding area is measured to be a, from the optical axis of the imaging element toward the light-shielding area.