Camera module
AssigneeSamsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSoo Cheol LIM, Byung Woo KANG
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Abstract
A camera module includes a housing accommodating a lens module; a driving unit including a magnet disposed on the lens module and a coil disposed to face the magnet; a yoke to generate attractive force with the magnet; a first ball member disposed between the lens module and the housing, and pressed by a first pressing force; and a second ball member disposed between the lens module and the housing, and pressed by a second pressing force. A direction of the first pressing force is different than a direction of the second pressing force, and a point of action of a resultant force of the first pressing force and the second pressing force is located closer to one of the first ball member and the second ball member than the other of the first ball member and the second ball member.
Claims19
A camera module comprising:
- a housing accommodating a lens module;
- a driving unit comprising a magnet disposed on the lens module and a coil disposed to face the magnet;
- a yoke configured to generate attractive force with the magnet;
- a first ball member disposed between the lens module and the housing, and pressed by a first pressing force as a result of the attractive force;
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- a second ball member disposed between the lens module and the housing, and pressed by a second pressing force as a result of the attractive force,
- wherein a direction of the first pressing force is different than a direction of the second pressing force, and
- a point of action of a resultant force of the first pressing force and the second pressing force is located closer to one of the first ball member and the second ball member than the other of the first ball member and the second ball member.
A camera module comprising:
- a housing accommodating a lens module;
- a driving unit comprising a magnet disposed on the lens module and a coil disposed to face the magnet;
- a yoke configured to generate attractive force with the magnet;
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- a first ball member disposed between the lens module and the housing, and pressed by the attractive force;
- and
- a second ball member disposed between the lens module and the housing, and pressed by the attractive force,
- wherein the first ball member is closer to the magnet than the second ball member, and
- the first ball member and the second ball member are disposed such that a line connecting a center of the first ball member and a center of the second ball member has an acute angle with respect to the magnet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.