Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hong Joo Lee

Young Bok Yoon

Nam Ki Park

Jung Woo Kim

Dong Yeon Shin

Je Hyun Bang

Jung Seok Lee

Ta Kyoung Lee

Hoon Do Heo

Ick Chan Shim

Suk Young Oh

Jae Hyuk Jang

Sung Woo Kim

Do-Young Kim

Ju Ho Kim

Hyun Ho Shin

Yun Tae Lee

Bo Sung Seo

Young-ho Kim

Bong Won Jeong

Shin Young Cheong

Young Hwan Kwon

Seung Heon Han

Jae Hyoung Gil

Young-Gil Kwon

Hyo-Jin Yun

Sung Yeol Park

Young Soo Oh

Hyung Ki Moon

Ji Won Ha

Byung Gi Ahn

A camera module includes a housing; a lens module accommodated in the housing and configured to adjust focus or adjust focus magnification; and an optical path conversion module accommodated in the housing and configured to convert an optical path. The optical path conversion module includes a prism; a first movable body accommodating the prism; a fixed body accommodating the first movable body; a first driving unit enabling first rotational driving of the first movable body, relative to the fixed body; and a second driving unit enabling second rotational driving of the first movable body, relative to the fixed body.

Optical path conversion module, and camera module and portable terminal including the same

A camera module includes a carrier supported on a housing and movable in an optical axis direction, at least one frame supported on the carrier and movable, relative to the carrier, in at least one direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and a lens module supported on the frame. The frame is supported on the carrier such that attractive force acts in the at least one direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction.

Camera module

A camera device actuator includes: a magnet disposed on a side surface of a lens carrier disposed to be movable in an optical axis direction in an internal space of a fixed housing; a member to be detected disposed on the side surface of the lens carrier, connected to the magnet, and having a width in the optical axis direction that is less than a width of the magnet in the optical axis direction; a driving coil disposed opposite to and spaced apart from the magnet, on a panel disposed on the housing; and a sensing coil including a first sensing coil and a second sensing coil disposed on the panel, spaced apart from and opposite to the member to be detected, and arranged in-line with each other in the optical axis direction.

Camera device actuator

A camera module device is provided. The device includes a movable body configured to accommodate a lens barrel and configured to be moved in a direction of an optical axis and in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, a housing configured to accommodate the movable body, a first driving unit, disposed on a first surface of the movable body, and configured to generate a first driving force to move the movable body in the direction of the optical axis, a second driving unit, disposed on a second surface and a third surface of the movable body, and configured to generate driving force to move the movable body in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and a first sensing unit, disposed on a fourth surface of the movable body, and configured to detect a position of the lens barrel moved in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis.

A camera module includes a housing, a rotation holder including a reflection member, and supported on an inner wall of the housing such that the reflection member is rotatable about a first axis, perpendicular to an optical axis and parallel to a bottom of the housing, a magnet provided on a side surface of the rotation holder, parallel to an optical axis direction, and a first position detection sensor provided in the housing to face the magnet and configured to sense movement of the rotation holder in a second axis direction, perpendicular to the optical axis and the first axis, wherein the magnet is disposed to be biased in a direction, opposite to the inner wall of the housing on which the rotation holder is supported in the optical axis direction.

Portable electronic device and camera module with rotatable reflection module

An actuator includes a magnet, a driving coil facing the magnet, a driver, and a position calculation processor. The driver is configured to move the magnet in at least one of an optical axis direction and a direction perpendicular to the optical axis by applying a driving signal to the driving coil. The position calculation processor includes sensing coils, and is configured to calculate a position of the magnet according to inductance levels of an inductor of the sensing coils. The inductance levels vary according to movements of the magnet.

Camera module actuator

A reflection module for optical image stabilization includes a rotation holder, which includes a reflection member and is supported on an internal wall of a housing, and a driving part to provide driving force to move the rotation holder. The driving part includes a magnet disposed on the rotation holder, a coil disposed in the housing and opposing the magnet, and a hall sensor disposed in the housing and opposing an N pole or an S pole of the magnet.

Reflection module for optical image stabilization and camera module including the same

A camera module includes a carrier accommodating a lens module, a housing accommodating the lens module and the carrier, a focus adjusting unit configured to move the lens module and the carrier in an optical axis direction, and a position measuring unit including a sensing yoke mounted on the carrier and a sensing coil facing the first sensing yoke. The sensing yoke includes a body unit and an extension unit extending in the optical axis direction from the body unit.

Portable electronic device and camera module

A sensing unit of a camera module includes a detection target provided on a side surface of a lens module, one or more sensing coils disposed to face the detection target, and a calculator. The calculator may determine a displacement of the detection target translated in any of an optical axis direction, a first direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, based on inductances of the one or more sensing coils.

Camera module and sensing unit to detect a detection target

A camera module includes a first position sensor configured to detect a position of a lens barrel in a first direction and including a 1-1-th sensing coil and a 1-2-th sensing coil having respective inductances that change as the lens barrel moves in the first direction; and a second position sensor including a second sensing coil having an inductance that changes as the lens barrel moves in a second direction, and a third sensing coil having an inductance that changes as the lens barrel moves in a third direction, wherein the second position sensor is configured to detect a position of the lens barrel in the second direction and a position of the lens barrel in the third direction by adding or subtracting a reference inductance to or from the inductance of the second sensing coil and the inductance of the third sensing coil.

Camera module configured to detect a position of a lens barrel based on the inductances of multiple sensing coils

A camera module comprises a lens barrel, a lens driving device including a focusing unit moving a lens barrel in an optical axis direction and a movement correction unit moving the lens barrel in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and a housing accommodating the lens barrel and the lens driving device. A focus sensing portion of the focusing unit is disposed in an area not including a planar surface on which a focusing magnet and a focusing coil are mounted.

Lens driving device and camera module including the same

An actuator of a camera module includes: a detection target; and a position detecting unit disposed to face the detection target and including at least two sensing coils respectively forming at least two oscillation circuits, wherein the position detecting unit detects a position of the detection target depending on at least two oscillation signals generated by the at least two oscillation circuits and having different frequency ranges.

Actuator of camera module

There are provided a hydrodynamic bearing assembly and a spindle motor including the same. The hydrodynamic bearing assembly includes: a sleeve including a shaft hole to have a shaft rotatably installed therein; and a cover member covering the shaft hole at a lower portion of the shaft hole in an axial direction, wherein an inner surface of the sleeve is provided with depression parts depressed in an outer diameter direction between upper and lower portions of the sleeve and portions in which radial bearings are formed, such that the portions in which the radial bearings are formed are provided with bearing closure adhesion parts allowing the portions in which the radial bearings are formed to be closer to the shaft than portions other than the portions in which the radial bearings are formed.

Hydrodynamic bearing assembly and spindle motor including the same

There is provided a spindle motor for a 2.5&#x2033; type disk driving device, including: a base having a stator core seating part protruding upwardly in an axial direction; a stator core including a ring-shaped coreback part, a tooth part, and a front end part; and a coil wound around the stator core, wherein when a length of the stator core from an inner end portion of the coreback part to the endmost part of the front end part is defined as L and a height of the wound coil from the lowermost edge of the coil in an axial direction to the uppermost edge thereof is defined as H, a ratio (H/L) of the height of the wound coil to the length of the stator core in which back electromotive force (B-EMF) is 0.35 V/Krpm or more when the supply of power is stopped satisfies 0.524&#x2266;H/L&#x2266;0.703.

Spindle motor and disk driving device

A catalyst filling method in a micro channel and a reformer manufactured by the method. The catalyst is filled in the micro channel using water, and unidirectional pressure is applied to the catalyst in the micro channel to fill the micro channel with high density. The catalyst in the micro channel is dried. The method according to the present invention allows uniformly filling the catalyst particles in the micro channel of the reformer with high density, increasing the reactive surface area of the catalyst particles with the fuel, thereby allowing highly efficient reforming effect.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Hong Joo Lee