Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Camera module and electronic device including the same
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Application No.: US17430181Application Date: 2021-07-30
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Publication No.: US11871099B2Publication Date: 2024-01-09
- Inventor: Hyungjin Rho , Byungkwon Kang , Hyunho Yu
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agency: Jefferson IP Law, LLP
- Priority: KR 20200096404 2020.07.31
- International Application: PCT/KR2021/010006 2021.07.30
- International Announcement: WO2022/025719A 2022.02.03
- Date entered country: 2021-08-11
- Main IPC: G03B30/00
- IPC: G03B30/00 ; H04N23/55 ; H04N23/54 ; H04N23/68

Abstract:
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing and a camera module, at least part of which is disposed inside the housing. The camera module includes a fixed part including a camera housing fixedly disposed in the electronic device, a moving part including a lens and an image sensor, at least part of the moving part being received inside the camera housing such that the moving part moves relative to the fixed part, a drive member that moves the moving part and that includes a first drive member disposed on the camera housing and a second drive member that is disposed on the moving part and that electromagnetically interacts with the first drive member, and a support structure that supports a movement of the moving part and that includes a ball coupled to one of the moving part or the camera housing so as to be rotatable.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220311916A1 CAMERA MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2022-09-29
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