Stop module and camera module including the same

1. A stop module comprising:

a base;

blades sequentially overlapping each other on the base and configured to rotate about separate rotation shafts to form incident holes having different sizes; and

a magnet portion configured to provide a driving force to rotate the blades,

wherein only one of the blades is a driving blade, which is directly interlocked with the magnet portion, and the blades other than the driving blade comprise at least two driven blades configured to be driven to be interlocked with the driving blade with a common driving protrusion and not directly connected to the magnet portion.

2. The stop module of claim 1 , wherein the separate rotation shafts of the blades are connected to each other to form a regular polygon.

3. The stop module of claim 2 , wherein a center of gravity of the regular polygon formed by the connection of the separate rotation shafts of the blades substantially coincides with an optical axis.

4. The stop module of claim 1 , wherein rotation angles of the blades are substantially the same.

5. The stop module of claim 1 , wherein each of the blades comprise an opening of a same size and a same shape, and

the openings are overlapped to form the incident holes having different sizes.

6. The stop module of claim 5 , wherein at least a portion of the openings is a portion of a regular N-polygon, where N is natural number.

7. The stop module of claim 6 , wherein, in a case in which a specific incident hole, among the incident holes, is formed in a state in which the blades overlap with each other, positions of the openings are formed so that a circle having a position spaced apart from the rotation shaft of any one of the blades by a distance L between the rotation shaft and an optical axis in an opposite direction of the optical axis as the center, and having a distance 2L between the center and the optical axis as a radius is in contact with any one of vertices of the openings having at least a portion of the regular N-polygon.

8. The stop module of claim 7 , wherein the openings are regular N-polygons.

9. The stop module of claim 7 , wherein a portion of the openings is an arc of a circle, and a remainder of the openings is a portion of the regular N-polygon.

10. The stop module of claim 7 , wherein there are a total of three blades.

11. The stop module of claim 7 , wherein the incident holes all have a circular shape or a regular N-polygon shape.

12. The stop module of claim 11 , further comprising a position sensor disposed to face a magnet of the magnet portion and configured to sense a position of the magnet portion.

13. The stop module of claim 5 , wherein each of the openings have a shape in which at least two circular holes of different sizes are connected to each other.

14. The stop module of claim 13 , wherein the circular holes include a large diameter and at least one small diameter having a radius smaller than a radius of the large diameter,

the large diameter is a same size as a size of an incident hole having a largest size,

in a case in which a specific incident hole, among the incident holes, is formed in a state in which the blades overlap with each other, the at least one small diameter is a circle having a center on a straight line connecting matched points and an optical axis to each other and having a radius r, and

the matched points are points at which a circle having a position spaced apart from the rotation shaft of any one of the blades by a distance L between the rotation shaft and the optical axis in an opposite direction of the optical axis as the center, and having a distance 2L between the center and the optical axis as a radius is in contact with the openings.

15. The stop module of claim 1 , wherein the magnet is configured to be linearly moved in a direction approximately perpendicular to an optical axis direction.

16. A stop module comprising:

a base; and

blades sequentially overlapping each other on the base and configured to rotate about separate rotation shafts to form incident holes having different sizes,

wherein each of the blades comprises an opening, and at least a portion of the openings have a portion of a regular N-polygon, where N is a natural number, and

in a case in which a specific incident hole, among the incident holes, is formed in a state in which the blades overlap with each other, positions of the openings are formed so that a circle having a position spaced apart from the rotation shaft of any one of the blades by a distance L between the rotation shaft and an optical axis in an opposite direction of the optical axis as the center, and having a distance 2L between the center and the optical axis as a radius is in contact with any one of vertices of the openings having at least a portion of the regular N-polygon.

17. A camera module comprising:

a lens module accommodated in a housing; and

the stop module of claim 16 configured to continuously form the incident holes of different sizes,

wherein the stop module comprises a magnet portion interlocked with the blades to provide driving force and a coil provided in the lens module disposed to face the magnet portion.

18. A camera module comprising:

a lens module;

overlapping blades configured to form incident holes of different sizes to selectively change an amount of light incident on the lens module; and

a magnet portion configured to move linearly along a driving path in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis to rotate the blades to form the incident holes,

wherein the magnet portion is directly connected to only one blade among the blades and the magnet portion is configured to rotate the one blade a rotational amount proportional to an amount of movement of the magnet portion along the driving path, and

wherein the blades other than the one blade comprise at least two driven blades configured to be driven to be interlocked with the one blade with a common driving protrusion.

19. The camera module of claim 18 , wherein in a case in which the magnet portion is moved to a first end of the driving path, the blades are rotated to form an incident hole having a smallest size among the incident holes, and

in a case in which the magnet portion is moved to a second end of the driving path, the blades are rotated to form an incident hole having a largest size among the incident holes.

20. The camera module of claim 19 , wherein the magnet portion comprises a driving protrusion configured to fit into a guide hole of the one blade.

21. The camera module of claim 20 , wherein the guide hole is curved.