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Granted Patent B2
US 12,487,431 · App. 17/798,073 · Granted Dec 2, 2025

Lens module and electric device

Inventors: Shulun Liu (Guangdong, CN); Xinlong Geng (Guangdong, CN); Chao Luo (Guangdong, CN)
Assignee: Henan Hozel Electron Inc.
G02B7/08G02B27/646
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Patent No.
US 12,487,431
App. No.
17/798,073
Granted
Dec 2, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A lens module and an electronic device are provided. The lens module includes: a bearing portion; and at least two groups of SMA actuating structures, and each group is connected to the same side portion or different side portions of the bearing portion, and includes: a driven member fixedly provided at a side portion of the bearing portion; a first contact plate, two ends of a first SMA wire are each electrically connected to the first contact plate, and a middle portion of the first SMA wire is in contact with the driven member; and a second contact plate, two ends of a second SMA wire are each electrically connected to the second contact plate, and a middle portion of the second SMA wire is in contact with the driven member; the driven member is movably mounted between angles formed by the first SMA wire and the second SMA wire being bent.

Claims (25)

1 . A lens module, comprising:

a bearing portion having four side portions connected to form a frame for bearing a lens; and

at least two groups of SMA actuating structures,

wherein each side portion having a surface facing outwardly from the bearing portion so that the bearing portion having a first pair of surfaces and a second pair of surfaces, the first pair of surfaces having a first surface and a second surface in parallel to each other and the second pair of surfaces having a third surface and a fourth surface in parallel to each other,

wherein each group of the at least two groups of SMA actuating structures is disposed across the first surface or respectively disposed across the first surface and the second surface,

each group of the at least two groups of SMA actuating structures comprises:

a driven member fixedly provided on a center of the corresponding surface;

a first pair of contact plates affixed to the first surface;

a first SMA wire, wherein two ends of the first SMA wire are each electrically connected to each of the first pair of contact plates, respectively, and a middle portion of the first SMA wire is in contact with the driven member and forms a first bend;

a second pair of contact plates affixed to the first surface; and

a second SMA wire, wherein two ends of the second SMA wire are each electrically connected to each of the second pair of contact plates, respectively, and a middle portion of the second SMA wire is in contact with the driven member and forms a second bend, and

wherein the driven member is movably mounted between the first bend in the first SMA wire and the second bend in the second SMA wire being bent.

2 . The lens module according to claim 1 , wherein two groups of SMA actuating structures are provided.

3 . The lens module according to claim 1 , wherein four groups of SMA actuating structures are provided, and are respectively disposed across the first surface, the second surface, the third surface, and the four surface.

4 . The lens module according to claim 1 , wherein a contact surface at which the driven member is contacted with the first SMA wire and/or the second SMA wire is an arc-shaped surface.

5 . The lens module according to claim 4 , wherein a limiting groove is provided at the contact surface at which the driven member is contacted with the first SMA wire and/or the second SMA wire, and the middle portion of the first SMA wire and/or the second SMA wire is located within the limiting groove.

6 . The lens module according to claim 1 , wherein each contact plate in the first pair of contact plates and the second pair of contact plate is with a terminal, the first SMA wire is connected to two terminals in the first pair of contact plates, the second SMA wire is connected to two terminals in the second contact plate; each terminal is inclined at a certain angle in a direction in which the first SMA wire and/or the second SMA wire connected to the terminal is extended.

7 . The lens module according to claim 1 , wherein two first SMA wires and two second SMA wires are provided, and each of the two first SMA wires and each of the two second SMA wires are spaced by a certain gap.

8 . An electronic device, comprising the lens module according to claim 1 .

9 . An electronic device, comprising the lens module according to claim 2 .

10 . An electronic device, comprising the lens module according to claim 3 .

11 . An electronic device, comprising the lens module according to claim 5 .

12 . An electronic device, comprising the lens module according to claim 6 .

13 . An electronic device, comprising the lens module according to claim 6 .

14 . An electronic device, comprising the lens module according to claim 7 .

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 4, 2024
From: SEADEC TECHNOLOGY LTD.
To: HENAN HOZEL ELECTRON INC.
Reel/Frame 069491/0423 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 7, 2022
From: LIU, SHULUN; GENG, XINLONG; LUO, CHAO
To: SEADEC TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Reel/Frame 060739/0160 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202120529912.3 · Mar 12, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240201469A1 · Jun 20, 2024
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