Patent ID: 7425989

Claim:
An image-pickup device comprising: an image-pickup element; a flexible circuit board which is electrically connected to the image-pickup element so that the image-pickup element is disposed at a side of a first surface of the flexible circuit board, the flexible circuit board having a rectangular opening portion through which light guided to the image-pickup element passes and having a wiring portion and an extended portion which are bifurcated with each other on a long side of the rectangular opening portion, the extended portion having a locating hole; a first holding member disposed at the side of the first surface of the circuit board; a signal processing board which is disposed at a side opposite to a side of the flexible circuit board with respect to the first holding member and connected to the image-pickup element through the wiring portion bent along the first holding member; and a second holding member which is disposed at a side of a second surface opposite to the first surface of the flexible circuit board and held by the first holding member to bias the flexible circuit board toward the first holding member, wherein one holding member of the first and second holding members has a pin for locating the one holding member with respect to the other holding member, and wherein the pin is inserted into a hole formed in the other holding member passing through the locating hole when the second holding member is held by the first holding member.