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US 11,029,491 B2Granted
Camera module including magnet interacting with both coil for performing focusing function and coil for performing shake compensation function
AssigneeLG Innotek Co., Ltd.
InventorIn Jae Yeo
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Abstract
Disclosed is a camera module. The camera module includes: a lens barrel disposed in a housing to receive a lens assembly; an elastic member in at least one of the housing and the lens barrel; a driving unit moving the lens barrel relative to the housing; and a sensor unit fixed to the housing.
Claims18
A camera module comprising:
- a housing comprising a first housing and a second housing disposed under the first housing;
- a barrel disposed in the first housing;
- a first elastic member connecting the barrel and the first housing;
- a second elastic member coupled with the first housing and the second housing;
- a lens assembly disposed in the barrel;
- a first coil disposed on an outer side of the barrel;
- a magnet disposed on the first housing;
- and
- a second coil disposed on the second housing,
- wherein the first coil faces the magnet in a horizontal direction and the second coil faces a lower surface of the magnet in a vertical direction such that the first coil and the second coil share and interact with the magnet,
- wherein the lens assembly comprises at least five lenses,
- wherein a first lens disposed closest to an object side among the at least five lenses comprises a positive refractive power and a convex surface facing the object side,
- wherein a second lens disposed second from the object side among the five lenses comprises a meniscus shape,
- wherein a third lens disposed third from the object side among the five lenses comprises a meniscus shape,
- wherein a fourth lens disposed fourth from the object side among the five lenses comprises a meniscus shape,
- wherein at least one of an object side surface of the fourth lens and an image side surface of the fourth lens comprises at least one aspheric inflection point,
- wherein a side portion of the first housing is overlapped with a portion of the second elastic member in the horizontal direction,
- wherein the first housing comprises the side portion and an upper portion extending from an upper end of the side portion in the horizontal direction,
- wherein the magnet comprises the lower surface facing an upper surface of the second coil, an upper surface facing the upper portion of the first housing, a first side surface facing the first coil, and a second side surface facing the side portion of the first housing,
- wherein the first coil faces the first side surface of the magnet in the horizontal direction, and
- wherein, measured in the vertical direction, a width of the first side surface of the magnet is greater than a width of a surface of the first coil facing the first side surface of the magnet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.