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Granted Patent B2
US 10,594,911 · App. 16/411,469 · Granted Mar 17, 2020

Camera module

Inventors: Ah Hyeon Im (Suwon-si, KR); Ta Kyoung Lee (Suwon-si, KR); Bong Won Jeong (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
H04N5/2254G02B7/102G02B13/009G02B15/14H04N5/2252H04N5/23287H04N5/23296G02B15/163
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Patent No.
US 10,594,911
App. No.
16/411,469
Granted
Mar 17, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A camera module includes: a housing; a reflecting module; and a lens module disposed behind the reflecting module, wherein the moving holder is disposed to be movable in one axial direction, approximately perpendicular to the optical axial direction and the one axial direction with respect to the housing, the lens module includes a carrier supported by the housing to be linearly movable in approximately the optical axial direction, the lens module includes two or more lens barrels of which some are fixed, and the others are supported by the housing to be linearly movable in approximately the optical axial direction, and lenses are distributed and provided into the at least two lens barrels.

Claims (22)

1. A camera module comprising:

a housing having an internal space;

a reflecting module disposed in the internal space and comprising a reflecting member and a moving holder movably supported by an inner wall of the housing; and

a lens module disposed in the internal space, and comprising lenses aligned in an optical axial direction and configured such that light reflected from the reflecting member is incident to the lenses,

wherein the moving holder is configured to be movable, with respect to the housing, in at least one axial direction perpendicular to the optical axial direction, and

wherein the lens module further comprises

a carrier supported by the housing and configured to be linearly movable in the optical axial direction, and

at least one lens barrel configured to be linearly movable in the optical axial direction, and comprising a first magnet configured to generate driving force in the optical axial direction in response to power being applied to a first coil disposed in the housing.

2. The camera module of claim 1 , further comprising first-ball bearings disposed between the housing and a bottom plate of the carrier.

3. The camera module of claim 1 , wherein the carrier comprises a second magnet configured to generate driving force in the optical axial direction in response to power being applied to a second coil disposed in the housing.

4. The camera module of claim 3 , wherein the housing comprises a pulling yoke disposed on a bottom surface of the housing, and the pulling yoke is configured to allow the carrier to be supported by the bottom surface of the housing by attractive force between the pulling yoke and the first magnet.

5. The camera module of claim 2 , wherein seating grooves in which the ball bearings are seated are disposed in a bottom surface of the housing and the bottom plate of the carrier facing each other.

6. The camera module of claim 5 , wherein the seating grooves are elongate in the optical axial direction.

7. A portable electronic device comprising the camera module of claim 1 .

8. A camera module comprising:

a housing having an internal space;

a reflecting module disposed in the internal space, and comprising a reflecting member and a moving holder supported by an inner wall of the housing to be movable, with respect to the housing, in at least one axial direction perpendicular to an optical axial direction;

a lens module disposed in the internal space, and comprising

lenses aligned in the optical axial direction and configured such that light reflected from the reflecting member is incident to the lenses,

at least one lens barrel accommodating some of the lenses and configured to be linearly movable in the optical axial direction, and

a carrier supported by the housing and configured to be linearly movable in the optical axial direction; and

ball bearings disposed between the housing and a bottom plate of the carrier.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2017-0076728 · Jun 16, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15835658 · Dec 8, 2017
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