Optical image stabilizer for camera lens assembly

• US 20060269262A1
• Filed: 11/10/2005
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JA HWA Electronic Company Limited, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Shin, Doo-Sik, Shin, Jeong-Kil, Seol, Jin-Soo, Lee, Jong-Pil, Kim, Hee-Seung
• Granted Patent: US 7,519,282 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 396/55
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/646 compensating for small deviations, e.g. due to vibration or shake movement of one or more optical elements for control of motion blur in cameras, projectors or printers G03B2205/0007; image stabilisation in cameras peculiar to the presence or use of an electronic image sensor H04N23/68
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 5/02 Lateral adjustment of lens
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/54 Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/68 for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6812 based on additional sensors, e.g. acceleration sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/687 by shifting the lens or sensor position

Abstract

Disclosed is an optical image stabilizer for a camera lens assembly, which includes: a main frame; a drive frame moving on the main frame in at least one direction; a camera device mounted to the drive frame; a pair of driving permanent magnets installed at one of the main frame and the drive frame; and a pair of coils installed at the other of the main frame and the drive frame and opposite to the driving permanent magnets, wherein the drive frame is moved by interactions of the electromagnetic forces generated when currents are applied to the coils.

Claims

1. An optical image stabilizer for a camera lens assembly, comprising:

a main frame;

a drive frame slidably movable on the main frame in at least one direction;

a camera device mounted to the drive frame;

a pair of driving permanent magnets installed at one end of the main frame and the drive frame; and

a pair of coils installed at other end of the main frame and the drive frame facing the driving permanent magnets,

wherein the drive frame is moved by interactions of electromagnetic forces generated when a current is applied to the coils.

2. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 1, further comprising a yoke installed at the other end of the main frame and the drive frame.

3. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 1, further comprising yokes surrounding the coils and the driving permanent magnets to form a magnetic field shielding structure against an exterior magnetic field.

4. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 1, further comprising at least one ball bearing interposed between the main frame and the drive frame.

5. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 1, further comprising:

at least one permanent magnet installed at one end of the main frame and the drive frame; and

at least one position detecting sensor installed at one end of the main frame and the drive frame facing the permanent magnet for sensor,

wherein the position detecting sensor detects the movement of the driving frame according to changes of magnetic forces generated from the permanent magnet.

6. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 1, wherein one of the coils is installed along a first direction together with the corresponding driving permanent magnet opposite to the coil, the other of the coils is installed along a second direction together with the corresponding driving permanent magnet opposite to the coil, wherein the second frame is moved in the first or second direction according to the coil to which a current is applied.

7. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 1, wherein the drive frame comprises:

a first frame installed on the main frame so as to be movable in a first direction with respect to the main frame; and

a second frame installed on the first frame so as to be movable in the first direction together with the first frame and to be movable in a second direction with respect to the main frame.

8. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 7, wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.

9. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 7, further comprising:

at least one first sliding recess formed in the main frame along one of the first and second directions and opposite to the first frame;

a second slide recess formed in the first frame along one of the first and second directions and opposite to the first slide recess; and

a ball having a portion received in the first slide recess and another portion received in the second slide recess so that the main frame is separated from the first frame,

wherein the first frame is moved on the main frame in the direction along which the first and second slide recesses extend.

10. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 7, further comprising at least one ball bearing interposed between the first frame and the second frame.

11. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 10, wherein the ball bearing comprises:

at least one third sliding recess formed in the first frame along one of the first and second directions and opposite to the second frame;

a fourth slide recess formed in the second frame along one of the first and second directions and opposite to the third slide recess; and

a ball having a portion received in the third slide recess and another portion received in the fourth slide recess so that the second frame is separated from the first frame, and

wherein the second frame is moved on the first frame in the direction along which the third and fourth recesses extend.

12. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 7, further comprising:

at least one permanent magnet installed in one of the main frame and the second frame; and

at least one position detecting sensor installed in one of the main frame and the second frame and opposite to the permanent magnet for sensor,

wherein the position detecting sensor detects the movement of the second frame according to changes of magnetic forces generated from the permanent magnet for sensor.

13. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 12, wherein the position detecting sensor is a hall sensor.

14. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 7, wherein the permanent magnets are installed at one end of the main frame and the second frame of the drive frame and the coils are installed at the other end of main frame and the second frame of the drive frame.

15. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 7, further comprising:

at least one first sliding recess formed in the main frame along one of the first and second directions and opposite to the first frame;

a second slide recess formed on one surface of the first frame along one of the first and second directions and opposite to the first slide recess;

at least one third sliding recess formed on the other surface of the first frame along one of the first and second directions and opposite to the second frame;

a fourth slide recess formed in the second frame along one of the first and second directions and opposite to the third slide recess; and

balls interposed between the first slide recess and the second slide recess and between the third slide recess and the fourth slide recess so that the first frame is separated from the main frame and the second frame is separated from the first frame, respectively, and

wherein the first frame is moved on the main frame in the direction along which the first and second recesses extend and the second frame is moved on the first frame in the direction along which the third and fourth recesses extend.

16. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 15, wherein the third slide recess is formed in a same plane as the first slide recess and the fourth slide recess is formed in a same plane as the second slide recess.

17. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 7, further comprising support ribs respectively formed on inner side walls of the main frame which follow the first direction, wherein the support ribs extend along the first direction.

18. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 7, wherein the first frame comprises first support members extending in parallel to each other along the first direction and second support members extending in parallel to each other along the second direction and having ends combined with both ends of the first support members respectively, and when the second frame is located on the first frame, the first support members surround both side surfaces of the second frame.

19. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 7, further comprising support ribs formed on inner side walls of the main frame which follow the first direction,

wherein the support ribs extend along the first direction respectively, both ends of the support ribs are separated from inner side walls of the main frame which follow the second direction so as to form a predetermined space, and the first frame comprises first support members extending along the first direction parallel to each other and second support members extending along the second direction parallel to each other and having ends located in the space between the ends of the support ribs and the inner side walls of the main frame.

20. The optical image stabilizer according to claim 19, further comprising:

at least one first slide recess formed in the support ribs along the first direction; and

at least one third slide recess formed in the second support members along the second direction,

wherein the first and third slide recesses are located in a same plane.