Camera module and method for manufacturing camera module

• US 8,506,185 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2012
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Component Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Component Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: Sato, Koki, Kobayashi, Mitsuru, Tanaka, Tetsugaku, Miyazawa, Hideo
• Primary Examiner(s): Perkey, W B
• Application Number:
  US13/711,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20130101281A1
• Time in Patent Office: 244 Days
• Field of Search: 396/529, 396/535
• US Class Current: 396/529
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/02 Bodies
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 3/10 Power-operated focusing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/54 Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/57 Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49908 Joining by deforming

Abstract

A camera module includes a camera unit, a board, and a driving unit mounted on the board and configured to drive the camera unit. The camera module also includes an elastic camera-side connecting part configured to connect a terminal of the camera unit with wiring on a first surface of the board.

Claims

1. A camera module, comprising:

plural terminals formed by pressing a metal plate;

a holder formed by insert molding so as to surround and hold the terminals and having a through hole extending in a length direction of the terminals;

a lens fitted into the through hole; and

a camera unit attached to the holder and disposed behind the lens, wherein

the terminals include cut-off parts that are cut off from carriers of the metal plate to separate the holder from the metal plate;

the cut-off parts penetrate through a wall of the holder; and

ends of the cut-off parts are in a recess formed in an outer surface of the wall of the holder.

2. A method of manufacturing a camera module, the method comprising:

pressing a metal plate to form multiple sets of terminals;

forming a holder for each set of the terminals by insert molding so as to surround and hold the terminals, the holder having a through hole extending in a length direction of the terminals;

fitting a lens into the through hole;

attaching a camera unit to the holder at a position behind the lens; and

separating the holder from the metal plate.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein

the metal plate is a hoop material;

and

pressing the metal plate includes pressing the hoop material to form the multiple sets of the terminals.