Camera module
AssigneeSamsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
InventorsBo Sung Seo, Jung Seok Lee, Young Bok Yoon
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Abstract
A camera module includes a carrier supported on a housing and movable in an optical axis direction, a frame supported on the carrier and movable, relative to the carrier, in a first direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and a lens module supported on the frame and movable, relative to the frame, in a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction. One of the frame and the lens module is supported such that attractive force acts in one of the first direction and the second direction.
Claims16
A camera module comprising:
- a carrier supported on a housing and movable in an optical axis direction;
- a frame supported on the carrier and comprising a first magnet configured to interact with a first coil such that the frame is moved relative to the carrier in a first direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction;
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- a lens module supported on the frame and comprising a second magnet configured to interact with a second coil such that the lens module is moved relative to the frame in a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction and the first direction,
- wherein one of the frame and the lens module is supported to a relative member by an attractive force acting in one of the first direction and the second direction, and
- wherein the housing includes a yoke facing one of the first magnet and the second magnet along one of the first direction and the second direction, and the attractive force acts between the yoke and the one of the first magnet and the second magnet in the respective first direction or second direction.
A camera module comprising:
- a carrier supported on a housing and movable in an optical axis direction;
- a frame supported on the carrier and comprising a first magnet configured to be movable, relative to the carrier, in a first direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction;
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- a lens module supported on the frame and comprising a second magnet configured to be movable, relative to the frame, in a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction,
- wherein the first magnet and the second magnet oppose each other about an optical axis,
- wherein one of the first magnet and the second magnet is magnetized along a surface opposing a relative member in one of the first direction and the second direction to have at least an N-pole and an S-pole, and
- the other of the first magnet and the second magnet is magnetized such that the surface opposing the relative member has a single pole or a plurality of poles.
A camera module comprising:
- a frame comprising a first magnet configured to generate force to move the frame along a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis;
- a lens holder coupled to the frame and comprising a second magnet configured to generate force to move the lens holder relative to the frame along a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis, the second magnet being disposed opposite to the first magnet across the optical axis;
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- a lens barrel fixed to the lens holder and configured to be moved along the first direction by movement of the frame and to be moved along the second direction by movement of the lens holder relative to the frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.