New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd

Tatsuki Wade

Xuepeng Fu

Kei Onodera

Masahiro Akatsu

A piezoelectric ultrasonic motor including: a columnar body having two opposite bottom surface portions and a plurality of side surface portions surrounding a region between the two bottom surface portions, and having a through hole that penetrates between the two bottom surface portions; a driving shaft inserted through the through hole of the columnar body; and a flexible printed circuits (FPC) on which a plurality of sheet-like piezoelectric elements are mounted, wherein the FPC has an FPC main body bringing the plurality of piezoelectric elements into contact respectively with the plurality of side surface portions of the columnar body and wound around the columnar body, and can supply driving electric power to the plurality of piezoelectric elements.

Piezoelectric ultrasonic motor with a more stable vibration body

An optical member driving device is provided. The device includes a fixed portion with an accommodation space for accommodating a lens device and a movable portion which includes a holding portion for holding an image sensor and is supported by a suspension wire at a position on a rear side of the lens device. The fixed portion has a case surrounding a periphery of the movable portion, and the movable portion has a coil substrate on which a coil is formed. The coil substrate has a main body portion and stopper portions projecting outward from a circumference of the main body portion, and the stopper portions are directly opposed to an inner surface of the case.

Optical member driving device, camera device and electronic apparatus

An actuator is disclosed having a sensor substrate, a coil substrate and an FPC. The sensor substrate includes an image sensor on a front surface thereof. The coil substrate includes a coil for driving the image sensor and is provided with a first through hole. The FPC includes a main body portion and a coupling portion extending from a periphery of the main body portion and is coupled to an outside element. The main body portion is provided with a second through hole. The sensor substrate is fixed to the main body portion from a rear side, the coil substrate is fixed to the main body portion from a front side, and the image sensor is exposed to a front surface through the first through hole and the second through hole.

Actuator, camera module and camera mounting device

An optical member driving device is provided that includes a fixed portion with an accommodation space for a lens device, and a movable portion, which has a holding portion for holding an image sensor, and is rockably supported at a position on a rear side of the lens device. The movable portion includes an FPC having a main body portion connected to the image sensor and a connecting portion for connecting the main body portion and an external device and a coil substrate which is fixed on a front surface of the main body portion of the FPC and on which a coil is formed. The connecting portion has a base end portion which rises from a predetermined position on an edge of the main body portion to a front side. The base end portion is opposed to a side surface of the coil substrate with an adhesive interposed.

Optical member driving device with improved optical image stabilizer function

An image blur correction apparatus includes a focus adjustment unit for moving a lens body in the direction of its optical axis; an image blur correction unit; and a housing having a housing front side wall on the front side of the direction of the optical axis and disposed outside said focus adjustment unit and the image blur correction unit, the focus adjustment unit has a focus adjustment unit front side wall on the front side of the direction of the optical axis, the focus adjustment unit front side wall including an exposed portion provided around the insertion hole and a hollow portion recessed toward the rear side of the direction of the optical axis with respect to said exposed portion; and the hollow portion and the rear side of the housing front side wall in the direction of the optical axis are provided to face opposite each other.

Image blur correction apparatus; camera device and electronic device

An actuator is disclosed having a fixed portion and a movable portion for mounting a rectangular image sensor. The movable portion includes a rectangular image sensor, coils and position sensors. The coils are arranged at positions corresponding to respective sides of the image sensor, and one pair of opposing two sides are respectively provided with two coils juxtaposed along each side. When the two coils arranged at positions right opposite each other corresponding to the opposing two sides are set as one set of coils, one position sensor is provided corresponding to each set of coils, and the position sensor is arranged at a position corresponding to one coil in each set of coils.

An actuator is disclosed that includes a lens driving device, a movable portion, a holder, a supporting plate spring, and a plurality of suspension wires. The lens driving device has a driving mechanism for driving a lens body forward and backward in an optical axis direction and is fixed to a case. The movable portion is arranged on a rear side of the lens driving device together with an image sensor. The holder is fixed to the case and surrounding the lens driving device from outside. The supporting plate spring is fixed to a front surface of the holder. The plurality of suspension wires couple the supporting plate spring and the movable portion.

An image sensor driving device includes a fixing portion, an image sensor assembly that is moved with respect to the fixing portion, a driving mechanism and a support mechanism. The image sensor assembly includes an image sensor of the rectangular form. The direction of the normal to the light receiving surface of the image sensor is a first axial direction and the directions perpendicular to the first axial direction and each other are a second axial direction and a third axial direction, respectively. The driving mechanism includes a coil portion for driving the image sensor assembly in the second axial direction or in the third axial direction with respect to the fixing portion and a magnet portion provided for facing opposite the coil portion, the coil portion being disposed on one and the magnet portion being disposed on the other of the image sensor assembly and the fixing portion.

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Yamato, Japan

Tatsuki Wade