G11B 7/0925
Electromechanical actuators for lens positioning
Official title: {Electromechanical actuators for lens positioning (G11B7/0857 takes precedence)}
G11B7/0925 (Electromechanical actuators for lens positioning) appears on 1,190 US grants and 752 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 1,190
- Published applications
- 752
- Assignees
- 218
- Inventors
- 1,649
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical element driving mechanism8 Sep 2026US 12,730,357 B2Actutek Corporation
- Optical element driving mechanism25 Feb 2025US 12,235,571 B2TDK Taiwan Corp.
- Lens driving apparatus21 Jan 2025US 12,204,166 B2LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Lens driving apparatus12 Sep 2023US 11,754,800 B2LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Optical element driving mechanism6 Dec 2022US 11,520,244 B2TDK Taiwan Corp.
- Lens driving apparatus18 Jan 2024US 2024/0019660 A1LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Optical element holder, optical element holding device, and vapor deposition apparatus21 Jul 2022US 2022/0230661 A1Hoya Lens Thailand Ltd.
- Optical element driving mechanism14 Jul 2022US 2022/0221680 A1TDK Taiwan Corp.
- Optical element driving mechanism14 Jul 2022US 2022/0221685 A1TDK Taiwan Corp.
- Position detecting device of aperture module22 Jul 2021US 2021/0223063 A1Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Read/write head including displacement generating means that elongates and contracts by inverse piezoelectric effect of electrostrictive effect140US 6,246,552 B1TDK Corporation · 2001
- Method and apparatus for moving carriage assembly from initial position to target position and optical disc system including same92US 6,741,529 B1Discovision Associates · 2004
- Optical disc system having servo motor and servo error detection assembly operated relative to monitored quad sum signal84US 5,729,511 ADiscovision Associates · 1998
- Servo control system for information storage device79US 5,875,158 ADiscovision Associates · 1999
- Mounting structure of objective lens for optical pick-up used for optical disk device73US 5,781,351 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1998