Camera extending and retracting device and mobile phone
AssigneeShenzhen Zhaowei Machinery & Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsShangxiang Xu, Weiqun Xie, Xiaoyun Yang
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Abstract
A camera extending and retracting device, including: a support base configured to be mounted inside a housing of a mobile phone; a screw movably arranged on the support base; a drive unit in connection with one end of the screw; a nut arranged on the screw; a push block mounted on the nut and configured to connect with the camera module of the mobile phone. The other end of the screw is provided with a load bearing mechanism configured to bear an axial force of the screw, and the load bearing mechanism is mounted on the support base. A mobile phone, includes: a housing, a camera module arranged in the housing, and a display screen arranged on the housing, and the above camera extending and retracting device.
Claims12
A camera extending and retracting device, comprising:
- a support base configured to be mountable inside a housing of a mobile phone, and comprising:
- a base plate configured to be mounted inside the housing, and
- a first mounting plate and a second mounting plate;
- a screw movably arranged on the support base;
- a drive unit in connection with one end of the screw;
- a nut arranged on the screw;
- and
- a push block mounted onto the nut and configured to connect with the camera module of the mobile phone;
- wherein the other end of the screw is provided with a load bearing mechanism configured to bear an axial force of the screw, and the load bearing mechanism is mounted to the support base,
- wherein one end of the screw passes through the first mounting plate and is in connection with the drive unit, and the other end of the screw is arranged at the second mounting plate via the load bearing mechanism,
- wherein the load bearing mechanism comprises:
- two seat rings,
- a bearing washer arranged between the two seat rings,
- two holders, each of the two holders arranged between each of the two seat rings and the bearing washer, and
- balls embedded in the two holders;
- the other end of the screw is provided with a bare axel section, and the bearing washer, the two seat rings, and the two holders are all sleeved onto the bare axel section;
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- an outer periphery of the bearing washer fixed on the second mounting plate, and the two seat rings respectively axially stopped at two ends of the bare axel section,
- wherein the second mounting plate defines a two-stage stepped hole therein;
- and the bearing washer is held in a relatively large hole in the two-stage stepped hole and is stopped by a step of the two-stage stepped hole.
A camera extending and retracting device, comprising:
- a support base configured to be mountable inside a housing of a mobile phone, and comprising:
- a base plate configured to be mounted inside the housing, and
- a first mounting plate and a second mounting plate;
- a screw movably arranged on the support base;
- a drive unit in connection with one end of the screw;
- a nut arranged on the screw;
- and
- a push block mounted onto the nut and configured to connect with the camera module of the mobile phone;
- wherein the other end of the screw is provided with a load bearing mechanism configured to bear an axial force of the screw, and the load bearing mechanism is mounted to the support base,
- wherein one end of the screw passes through the first mounting plate and is in connection with the drive unit, and the other end of the screw is arranged at the second mounting plate via the load bearing mechanism, and
- wherein the load bearing mechanism comprises:
- two seat rings,
- a bearing washer arranged between the two seat rings,
- two holders, each of the two holders arranged between each of the two seat rings and the bearing washer, and
- balls embedded in the two holders;
- the other end of the screw is provided with a bare axel section, and the bearing washer, the two seat rings, and the two holders are all sleeved onto the bare axel section;
- and
- an outer periphery of the bearing washer fixed on the second mounting plate, and the two seat rings respectively axially stopped at two ends of the bare axel section, and
- wherein each said holder defines ball accommodating grooves therein;
- balls are accommodated in the ball accommodating grooves and extend out of two opposite sides of each said holder, wherein both of the bearing washer and the seat rings define countersunk grooves therein at positions corresponding to the balls to accommodate extending portions of the balls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.