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Granted Patent B2
US 11,880,117 · App. 17/823,564 · Granted Jan 23, 2024

Camera module and electronic device

Inventors: Te-Sheng Tseng (Taichung, TW); Ming-Ta Chou (Taichung, TW); Wen-Hung Hsu (Taichung, TW)
Assignee: LARGAN DIGITAL CO., LTD.
G03B13/36G02B13/007G03B17/17
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Patent No.
US 11,880,117
App. No.
17/823,564
Granted
Jan 23, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A camera module includes a plastic carrier, an imaging lens assembly, a reflective element and a plurality of auto-focusing elements. The plastic carrier includes an inner portion and an outer portion, wherein an inner space is defined by the inner portion, and the outer portion includes at least one mounting structure. The imaging lens assembly is disposed in the inner space of the plastic carrier. The reflective element is for folding an image light by a reflective surface of the reflective element into the imaging lens assembly. The auto-focusing elements include at least two magnets and at least one wiring element, wherein the auto-focusing elements are for moving the plastic carrier along a second optical axis of the imaging lens assembly, and the magnets or the wiring element can be disposed on the mounting structure of the outer portion.

Claims (36)

1. A camera module, comprising:

a plastic carrier, comprising:

an inner portion, wherein an inner space is defined by the inner portion, and the inner portion comprises, from an object side to an image side, an object-side opening, at least one inner annular surface and an image-side opening; and

an outer portion comprising at least one mounting structure;

an imaging lens assembly disposed in the inner space of the plastic carrier and comprising:

a plurality of lens elements and a second optical axis; and

a retaining ring disposed in the plastic carrier and close to the object-side opening, so as to locate the lens elements in the inner space;

a reflective element for folding an image light by a reflective surface of the reflective element into the imaging lens assembly, wherein the reflective element comprises a first optical axis, and the first optical axis is folded into the second optical axis via the reflective surface; and

a plurality of auto-focusing elements comprising at least two magnets and at least one wiring element, wherein the auto-focusing elements are for moving the plastic carrier along the second optical axis of the imaging lens assembly, and the at least two magnets are mounted on the at least one mounting structure of the outer portion;

wherein the object-side opening is closer to the reflective element than the image-side opening thereto, the at least two magnets are respectively disposed on two sides of one plane formed by the first optical axis and the second optical axis.

2. The camera module of claim 1 , wherein the inner portion of the plastic carrier and the at least one mounting structure of the outer portion are integrally formed into a black plastic article via an injection molding.

3. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein the at least one wiring element is disposed on the plastic carrier and faces towards the at least two magnets.

4. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein the at least two magnets are disposed on the plastic carrier and face towards the wiring element.

5. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein one of the lens elements of the imaging lens assembly closest to the reflective element is exposed out of the plastic carrier along a direction vertical to the second optical axis.

6. The camera module of claim 5 , wherein the plastic carrier is a threadless structure.

7. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein the auto-focusing elements further comprise a first sheet elastic element and a second sheet elastic element, wherein the first sheet elastic element and the second sheet elastic element are arranged along the second optical axis in pairs.

8. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein a number of the at least one inner annular surface is at least three.

9. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein a half of a maximum field of view of the imaging lens assembly is HFOV, and the following condition is satisfied:

0 degrees<HFOV<20 degrees.

10. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein the reflective element is a prism element and a number of the reflective element is only one, which is for folding the image light into the imaging lens assembly thereby.

11. The camera module of claim 10 , wherein one of the lens elements of the imaging lens assembly closest to the prism element is a first lens element, and a central thickness of the first lens element is a largest central thickness among central thicknesses of the lens elements of the imaging lens assembly.

12. The camera module of claim 10 , wherein one of the lens elements of the imaging lens assembly closest to the prism element is a first lens element, a distance between an object-side surface of the first lens element and an image surface on the second optical axis is TTL, a focal length of the imaging lens assembly is f, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.4<TTL/ f <1.10.

13. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein all of the lens elements of the imaging lens assembly are located in the inner space of the plastic carrier.

14. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein the plastic carrier further comprises at least two gate traces respectively disposed on the two sides of the plane formed by the first optical axis and the second optical axis.

15. The camera module of claim 14 , wherein the at least two gate traces are close to the image-side opening.

16. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein a number of the at least one wiring element is only one, and the wiring element surrounds the outer portion of the plastic carrier.

17. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein a number of the at least two magnets is an even.

18. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein a material of the plastic carrier comprises a chemical fiber or a glass fiber.

19. The camera module of claim 1 , wherein a height of the plastic carrier is H, an outer diameter of the retaining ring is ψL, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.3<ψ L/H< 1.0.

20. The camera module of claim 6 , wherein the height of the plastic carrier is H, the outer diameter of the retaining ring is ψL, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.4<ψ L/H< 0.85.

21. An electronic device, comprising:

the camera module of claim 1 ; and

an image sensor disposed on an image surface of the camera module.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 31, 2022
From: TSENG, TE-SHENG; CHOU, MING-TA; HSU, WEN-HUNG
To: LARGAN DIGITAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 060948/0098 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 107132119 · Sep 12, 2018 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17164985 · Feb 2, 2021
Continuation 16459781 · Jul 2, 2019
Related Publication 20220413364A1 · Dec 29, 2022
Cited By (1)
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