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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2006
Kanji Tsuji, Ohta-ku, JP;
Kanji Tsuji, Ohta-ku, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Abstract
There is provided a lens barrel on which a flexible substrate having mounted thereon an image pickup element for photoelectrically converting an optical image imaged by a photo-taking lens is mounted, having a plurality of lens barrel members disposed movable forward and backward in the direction of an optical axis, and moving the photo-taking lens between a stored position which is the image pickup element side in the direction of the optical axis and a photographing position which is an object side in the direction of the optical axis, and an image pickup element supporting unit for supporting the image pickup element, and having a notched portion so that at least one of the plurality of lens barrel members may face the flexible substrate.