Camera module having a handshake correction function

• US 9,420,184 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2013
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Ahn, Jae Wook
• Primary Examiner(s): Vieaux, Gary C
• Application Number:
  US14/409,555
• Publication Number:
  US 20150201127A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,295 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/0015 characterised by the lens design
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2205/0015 by displacing one or more optical elements normal to the optical axis
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 2205/0069 using electromagnetic actuators, e.g. voice coils
• 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 23/57 Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/68 for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations

Abstract

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) mounted with an image sensor, a plurality of coil units arranged at an upper surface of the PCB, a housing member arranged at the upper surface of the PCB and provided with a magnet at a position corresponding to that of the coil unit, and a ball guide unit arranged at a surface opposite to the PCB of the housing member.

Claims

1. A camera module, the camera module comprising:

a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) mounted with an image sensor;

a housing member disposed at an upper surface of the PCB;

a bobbin disposed at an inner side of the housing member;

a first coil unit disposed on an upper surface of the PCB;

a second coil unit disposed at the bobbin;

a magnet disposed at the housing member, and the magnet facing the first coil unit and the second coil unit;

an elastic member coupled to the housing member and the bobbin; and

a ball guide unit disposed between the housing member and the PCB,

wherein the housing member is movable along the upper surface of the PCB by the ball guide unit.

2. The camera module of claim 1, wherein the housing member is movable to a direction parallel with a sensor surface of an image sensor mounted at the PCB in response to an electromagnetic interaction between the first coil unit and the magnet.

3. The camera module of claim 1, further comprising a cover member coupled to the PCB and mounted therein with the housing member.

4. The camera module of claim 1, wherein the first coil unit is installed at any one position of a surface of the PCB and an inside of the PCB, and the first coil unit has a pattern of a wound coil operating as an electromagnet, in a case a power is applied.

5. The camera module of claim 1, further comprising at least one lens disposed at the bobbin, and wherein the housing member includes a frame member mounted with the magnet.

6. The camera module of claim 5, wherein the magnet is installed at a wall surface of the frame member.

7. The camera module of claim 6, wherein the magnet is installed on the wall surface opposite to a bobbin of the frame member.

8. The camera module of claim 5, wherein the lens is installed at the bobbin arranged inside the frame member.

9. The camera module of claim 8, wherein the bobbin is wound with the second coil at a periphery opposite to the magnet.

10. The camera module of claim 9, wherein the bobbin is reciprocably installed to an axial direction at an inside of a space of the frame member in response to an electromagnetic interaction with the magnet.

11. The camera module of claim 5, wherein the at least one lens includes a lens formed with a variable lens to adjust refractive index of transmissive light.

12. The camera module of claim 5, wherein the lens is capable of moving any one of an extreme outer lens and an extreme rear lens.

13. The camera module of claim 5, wherein the ball guide unit is freely-rotatably installed at a floor surface of the frame member.

14. The camera module of claim 13, wherein the ball guide unit includes a ball member rotatably installed at a corner portion of the frame member, and a ball guide coupled to the floor surface of the frame member to prevent the ball member from being separated.

15. The camera module of claim 5, wherein the ball guide includes a grip unit for preventing the ball member from being separated by gripping both distal ends of the ball member.

16. The camera module of claim 5, wherein the elastic member is interposed between a cover member and the frame member to elastically support a movement to an axial direction of the bobbin centrally installed at the frame member.

17. The camera module of claim 16, further comprising a guide frame interposed between the cover member and the frame member to restrict a movement to an axial direction of the frame member and to guide a movement to a direction of the sensor surface of an image sensor.

18. The camera module of claim 17, wherein the guide frame is fixed in a state of being surface-contacted with the cover member.

19. The camera module of claim 17, wherein the guide frame is formed with an opening at a surface opposite to the bobbin.

20. A camera module comprising:

a circuit board;

a housing member at the circuit board;

a bobbin at an inside of the housing member;

a first coil unit at an upper surface of the circuit board;

a second coil unit at the bobbin;

a magnet at the housing member, and the magnet facing the first coil unit and the second coil unit;

an elastic member coupled to the housing member and the bobbin; and

a ball guide device between the housing member and the circuit board, wherein the ball guide device to move the housing member along the upper surface of the circuit board.