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Granted Patent B2
US 11,009,719 · App. 16/077,071 · Granted May 18, 2021

Lens drive device, camera module, and camera-mounted device

Inventor: Tomoyuki Murakami (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
G02B27/646G02B7/08G02B7/09G03B3/10G03B5/00G03B13/36H04N5/2253H04N5/2254H04N5/232G03B2205/0007G03B2205/0069
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Patent No.
US 11,009,719
App. No.
16/077,071
Granted
May 18, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

This lens drive device is provided with an AF drive part and image stabilization drive part using the driving force of a VCM. a pair of power supply suspension wires and a pair of signal suspension wires couple an image stabilization fixed part with an AF fixed part. The AF fixed part includes an AF power supply line, a signal line, a coil power supply line, and an AF control part. The AF control part includes: a Hall element detecting the position of the AF movable part in the optical axis direction; a coil control part controlling the energizing current for an AF coil on the basis of a control signal supplied through the signal suspension wires and the detection results of the Hall element; and an autofocus circuit board whereon the Hall element and the coil control part are mounted.

Claims (40)

1. A lens driving device, comprising:

an auto-focusing driving part including:

an auto-focusing coil part to be disposed at a periphery of a lens part,

an auto-focusing magnet part to be disposed to be radially spaced apart from the auto-focusing coil part, and

an auto-focusing supporting member configured to support, with respect to an autofocus fixing part including the auto-focusing magnet part, an autofocus movable part including the auto-focusing coil part, the autofocus movable part being supported to be movable in an optical-axis direction, the auto-focusing driving part being configured to perform automatic focusing by utilizing a driving force of a voice coil motor composed of the auto-focusing coil part and the auto-focusing magnet part; and

a shake-correcting driving part including:

a shake-correcting magnet part to be disposed in the auto-focusing driving part,

a shake-correcting coil part to be disposed to be spaced apart from the shake-correcting magnet part in the optical-axis direction, and

a shake-correcting supporting member configured to support, with respect to a shake-correcting fixing part including the shake-correcting coil part, a shake-correcting movable part including the shake-correcting magnet part, the shake-correcting movable part being supported to be able to sway in an optical-axis-orthogonal plane, the shake-correcting driving part being configured to perform shake correction by utilizing a driving force of an another voice coil motor composed of the shake-correcting coil part and the shake-correcting magnet part,

wherein the shake-correcting supporting member is composed of a pair of power-supplying suspension wires and a pair of signal suspension wires, the shake-correcting supporting member connecting the shake-correcting fixing part to the autofocus fixing part,

wherein the autofocus movable part includes a position-detecting magnet,

wherein the autofocus fixing part includes:

a pair of auto-focusing power-source lines to be connected to the pair of power-supplying suspension wires,

a pair of signal lines to be connected to the pair of signal suspension wires,

an auto-focusing control part to be electrically connected to the pair of power-supplying suspension wires and the pair of signal suspension wires via the pair of auto-focusing power-source lines and the pair of signal lines, and

a coil power-supply line configured to electrically connect the auto-focusing control part to the auto-focusing coil part, and

wherein the auto-focusing control part includes:

a Hall element to be disposed to face the position-detecting magnet, the Hall element being configured to detect a position of the autofocus movable part in the optical-axis direction based on a change in magnetic field,

a coil control part configured to control an energization current through the auto-focusing coil part based on a control signal to be provided via the pair of signal suspension wires and based on a detection result of the Hall element, and

an auto-focusing circuit board on which the Hall element and the coil control part are to be mounted,

wherein the auto-focusing power-source lines, the signal lines and the coil power-supply line are disposed on the same plane of the light reception side in the optical axis direction of the autofocus fixing part in such a manner as not to be in contact with one another.

2. The lens driving device according to claim 1 , wherein

the Hall element and the coil control part are respectively a built-in Hall element and a built-in coil control part included in a single Integrated Circuit.

3. The lens driving device according to claim 1 , wherein

the auto-focusing supporting member functions as the coil power-supply line and are disposed on the inner side the auto-focusing power-source lines and the signal lines.

4. The lens driving device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the autofocus fixing part includes a magnet holder, the magnet holder including:

a rectangular frame,

a magnet holding portion configured to hold the auto-focusing magnet part along four sides of the rectangular frame, and

a housing in which the auto-focusing control part is to be disposed,

wherein the autofocus movable part includes a lens holder, the lens holder including a cylindrical lens housing and a coil winding portion on which the auto-focusing coil part is to be wound,

wherein the lens holder is disposed inside the magnet holder such that the auto-focusing coil part faces the auto-focusing magnet part, and

wherein the pair of auto-focusing power-source lines, the pair of signal lines, and the coil power-supply line, as a whole, have a shape similar to a shape of the rectangular frame, and are routed on or above the rectangular frame.

5. A camera module, comprising:

the lens driving device according to claim 1 ;

a lens part to be mounted on the autofocus movable part; and

an image capturing part configured to capture a subject image imaged by the lens part.

6. A camera-mounted device that is an information device or a transporting device, the camera-mounted device comprising:

the camera module according to claim 5 ; and

a control part configured to process image information obtained by the camera module.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2018
From: MURAKAMI, TOMOYUKI
To: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 046611/0967 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190041661A1 · Feb 7, 2019