Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Shingo Kameyama

Masayuki Yoshie

Satoru Machida

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.

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Hyogo, Japan

Shingo Kameyama