Patent ID: 7864461

Claim:
A camera module comprising: a rear lens barrel; a front lens barrel assembled to the rear lens barrel, the front lens barrel and the rear lens barrel together forming a housing space; a lens holder that holds an imaging optical system and is housed in the housing space; a guiding mechanism that movably supports the lens holder along an optical axis of the imaging optical system; and a driving unit that moves the lens holder along the optical axis of the imaging optical system, the driving unit including a magnet provided in the lens holder, and a coil that faces the magnet, wherein the rear lens barrel has a bottom wall that faces the housing space, the coil includes first and second coils disposed in the rear lens barrel on opposite sides of the optical axis in the housing space, a winding wire that forms the first coil is electrically connected in series to a winding wire that forms the second coil via a relay line, and the relay line has a portion extending between the first coil and the second coil along a surface of the bottom wall that is located on the side opposite the housing space.