STORAGE MEMBER OF IMAGING MEANS AND REMOVAL DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To be able to provide a vivid captured image from an imaging means for particularly imaging backward of a vehicle by making contaminants causing the unclear captured image difficult to adhere to the imaging means. SOLUTION: In a removal device 1, a storage member 30 stores a backward camera 11 for imaging backward of the vehicle inside thereof. The storage member 30 extends backward of the vehicle from a rear end portion of the backward camera 11, and has a taper shape in which a part of the backward camera 11 which is located rearward from the rear end portion narrows continuously toward the rear of the vehicle. That is, when the storage member 30 is cut in a plane perpendicular to the front-and-rear direction of the vehicle, it is set so that its sectional area decreases continuously toward the rear of the vehicle. As described above, if the storage member 30 has the narrowing shape toward the rear of the vehicle, an air flow in the proximity of the rear end portion of the storage member 30 can be stabilized during traveling of the vehicle. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT