US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Sept. 9 for "Imaging device, shield, and method of manufacturing imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,835, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device, shield, and method of manufacturing imaging device" was invented by Ken Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazufumi Takeshita (Tokyo), Yoshiki Usui (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshihiro Murakami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masayuki Yoshie (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device according to the present disclosure includes a lens unit, a substrate, a housing, and a shield. The lens unit includes a lens barrel in which a lens is disposed. The substrate is disposed on an emission side of light from the lens barrel. The sub...