US Patent Issued to NIPPON CHEMI-CON on Sept. 1 for "Camera module, and manufacturing method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,222, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NIPPON CHEMI-CON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Camera module, and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Yuhei Kobayashi (Tokyo), Shun Nishiyama (Tokyo) and Shinji Oikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera module includes an imaging unit including a holder holding a lens unit including a flange portion being at right angles to an optical axis, a front case to which the lens unit is fixed, and a rear case including a prop portion supporting the lens unit with the flange portion, the imaging unit being fixed by the flange portion put between the prop portion and the front case, the rear cas...