Electronic component and electronic apparatus

A package structure 100 for an electronic component 10 such as an image pickup or display device includes a ferromagnetic body 40 which may be a frame surrounding the device or two rods either side of the device (Fig. 11A), and conductor plates or films 811, 813 below the device and embedded in a base body 20, both of which reduce magnetic flux density through the device, hence the noise caused by magnetic fields. The conductor layer may comprise a paramagnetic or diamagnetic body having lower magnetic permeability than the ferromagnetic body. It may overlap part of the ferromagnetic body as well as the device, in which case a counter magnetic field resulting from eddy currents in the conductor caused by the undesirable magnetic field will pass orthogonally through the device and adjacent internal connectors and bond wires 3, 4, 5, in the z direction, and not cause undesirable additive magnetic field components in the x/y plane. A lid 30 placed over the device may be transparent. Outer ...