Patent 7988371 was granted and assigned to Hitachi Maxell on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A camera module includes a mount for holding a lens directly or indirectly, a cover plate glass with transparency fixed to the mount. A solid-state imaging device is mounted on the cover plate glass. The cover plate contacts a plurality of ribs formed in the mount, and the mount and the cover plate are positioned.