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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2024
Applicant:
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takuro Suyama, Ina, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/50 (2023.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H10F 39/00 (2025.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/555 (2023.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H10F 39/026 (2025.01);
Abstract
An image pickup unit includes: an optical unit which includes a plurality of stacked optical elements and in which at least corners of four side surfaces have a notch being notched from an exit surface toward an incidence surface; an image sensor including a light-receiving surface; and resin which includes a first region between the light-receiving surface and the exit surface, the first region bonding the optical unit and the image sensor to each other, and a second region filling the notch of the optical unit, and which does not include an interface between the first region and the second region.