| US 7,554,600 B2 | ||
| Lens-barrel and image pickup apparatus | ||
| Tomohiro Yasui, Tokyo (Japan); Masanori Hayashi, Chiba (Japan); Kentaro Tashita, Gifu (Japan); Yoshikazu Ito, Gifu (Japan); and Hideki Yamaoka, Gifu (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 22, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/207,879. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. P2004-245631 (JP), filed on Aug. 25, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0044457 A1, Mar. 02, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G02B 15/14 (2006.01); G02B 7/04 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 348—360 [359/703; 396/144] | 7 Claims |
| 5. The image pickup apparatus as set forth in claim 4,
wherein the main flexible substrate further comprises a flexible insulating substrate, a conductive pattern formed on the
insulating substrate, and a reinforcement plate made of materials harder than the insulating substrate and having a size corresponding
to the undulatable surface portion, and
wherein the reinforcement plate is mounted to the insulating substrate.
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