Camera module
AssigneeSamsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
InventorsAh Hyeon Im, Ta Kyoung Lee, Bong Won Jeong
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Abstract
A camera module includes: a housing; a reflecting module; and a lens module disposed behind the reflecting module, wherein the moving holder is disposed to be movable in one axial direction, approximately perpendicular to the optical axial direction and the one axial direction with respect to the housing, the lens module includes a carrier supported by the housing to be linearly movable in approximately the optical axial direction, the lens module includes two or more lens barrels of which some are fixed, and the others are supported by the housing to be linearly movable in approximately the optical axial direction, and lenses are distributed and provided into the at least two lens barrels.
Claims21
A camera module comprising:
- a housing having an internal space;
- a reflecting module disposed in the internal space and comprising a reflecting member and a moving holder movably supported by an inner wall of the housing;
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- a lens module disposed behind the reflecting module in the internal space, and comprising lenses aligned in an optical axial direction and configured such that light reflected from the reflecting member is incident to the lenses,
- wherein the moving holder is configured to be movable, with respect to the housing, in a first axial direction perpendicular to the optical axial direction and a second axial direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction and the first axial direction,
- wherein the lens module comprises a carrier supported by the housing and configured to be linearly movable in the optical axial direction,
- wherein the lens module comprises two or more lens barrels, at least one first lens barrel among the two or more lens barrels being fixed to the carrier and configured to be immovable with respect to the carrier in the optical axis direction, and at least one second lens barrel among the two or more lens barrels being disposed in the carrier and configured to be linearly movable with respect to the carrier in the optical axial direction, and
- wherein the lenses are distributed and disposed in the two or more lens barrels.
A camera module, comprising:
- a housing having an internal space;
- a reflecting module disposed in the internal space;
- a lens module disposed in the internal space, and comprising at least one lens aligned in an optical axial direction and configured such that light reflected from the reflecting module is incident to the at least one lens;
- a magnet disposed on the housing or the reflecting module;
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- a yoke disposed on the reflecting module or the housing, opposing the magnet,
- wherein an inner wall of the housing is configured to support the reflecting module by a magnetic force between the yoke and the magnet, and
- wherein the reflecting module is configured to move, with respect to the housing, in at least one axial direction perpendicular to the optical axial direction to perform an optical image stabilization (OIS) function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.