Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Masayuki Yoshie

Ken Nakamura

Kazuhiro Abe

Kazufumi Takeshita

Yoshiki Usui

Yasutaka Matsumoto

Koyo Usami

Toshihiro Murakami

Takeshi Harada

Tadafumi Kurogi

Kenichi Kuwayama

Kouichi Kawamoto

Shingo Kameyama

Satoru Machida

A vehicular camera includes a circuit board accommodated in a housing and a metal shield. The circuit board includes a first component disposed on a second surface and having a first height and a second component disposed on the second surface and having a second height smaller than the first height. The first component is disposed in a position opposite to a second bottom surface portion of a recessed portion of a first bottom surface portion of the shield, and the second component is disposed in a position opposite to a portion other than the recessed portion of the first bottom surface portion of the shield.

Vehicular camera

A vehicular camera includes a lens barrel portion accommodating a lens, a welding ring disposed on an outer periphery of the lens barrel portion, a circuit board, an imaging element mounted on the circuit board, and a housing accommodating the imaging element and the circuit board. The welding ring includes a third surface, a fourth surface opposite to the third surface, and at least three protrusions. At least an end surface of the housing is fixed to a first fixing region of the fourth surface of the welding ring. On the third surface of the welding ring, each of the at least three protrusions of the welding ring is disposed closer to the lens barrel portion than a first fixing-corresponding region of the third surface corresponding to the first fixing region of the fourth surface.

An in-vehicle camera includes a lens barrel including at least one lens and being tubular, an imaging element disposed on the circuit board and on an optical axis of the at least one lens, a ring member made of a first resin having a first light transmittance, and disposed to protrude in a direction away from the optical axis over an entire periphery of the lens barrel, and a housing portion a part of which has a tubular shape, and one end surface of the tubular shape is made of a second resin having a second light transmittance smaller than the first light transmittance. The in-vehicle camera further includes a third resin disposed on an inner side of the tubular shape between the ring member and the imaging element in a direction of the optical axis, and having a third light transmittance smaller than the first light transmittance.

In-vehicle camera

An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes a lens unit, a substrate, a housing, and a shield. The lens unit includes a lens barrel in which a lens is disposed. The substrate is disposed on an emission side of light from the lens barrel. The substrate includes a first surface on which an imaging element receiving the light is mounted. The housing houses the lens unit and the substrate. The shield is provided in the housing to face the first surface of the substrate.

Imaging device, shield, and method of manufacturing imaging device

A vehicular camera includes a first shield made of metal and disposed to surround a circuit board. The first shield includes a first bottom surface portion, a second bottom surface portion disposed to be separated from the first bottom surface portion, and a connection portion connecting an entire periphery of the first bottom surface portion and an entire periphery of the second bottom surface portion. At least a first side surface portion, a second side surface portion, a third side surface portion, and a fourth side surface portion of the first shield are formed by a contiguously curved surface, and at least the first side surface portion, the second side surface portion, the third side surface portion, the fourth side surface portion, the first bottom surface portion, the connection portion, and the second bottom surface portion are formed by a contiguously curved surface.

An imaging module according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of components. The imaging module includes a first component and a second component. The first component has a higher light transmittance. The second component has a lower light transmittance. A joint is included in the first component and the second component.

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AICHI, Japan

Masayuki Yoshie