Patent ID: 7627238

Claim:
A camera module, comprising: a lens unit which constitutes an optical system of the camera module; a holder which has a hollow cylindrical portion that houses the lens unit therein and is displaceable along an optical axis direction of the lens unit; a coil having a cylindrical form and provided around the cylindrical portion of the holder; a yoke and magnets provided on the yoke for providing a magnetic field to the coil; upper and lower leaf springs for supporting the holder so that the holder is displaceable along an optical axis direction of the lens unit; a base which supports the yoke, and has an opening at a center thereof; a cover attached to the base so as to define a space therebetween in which the holder 8 can be displaced; and an imaging element provided below the base, wherein the base has an upper surface which faces the cover, and the upper surface of the base includes a concaved dust collecting portion and a dust falling preventing wall formed on the upper surface so as to surround an entire circumference of the opening of the base, and wherein a surface of the concaved dust collecting portion includes a dust sticking layer to which fallen dust is adapted to stick, whereby when dust is generated in the space between the cover and the base and such dust is fallen onto the upper surface of the base, it is possible to prevent such dust from entering into the opening due to the dust falling preventing wall and such dust is stuck to the dust sticking layer of the dust collecting portion provided on the upper surface of the base.