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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Nicholas D Smyth, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott W Miller, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A device may have a multi-camera system including one or more camera modules. At least one camera module may include one or more lenses, an image sensor, and a chassis structure. The camera module may include a bearing structure including one or more stages moving on a plurality of rolling elements to allow the lenses and/or the image sensor to move in one or more directions. The chassis structure may form a limit for a span distance or length of a group of rolling elements. A portion of the chassis structure may include an opening to provide extra space to allow the span distance or length of the group of rolling elements to be extended, so as to reduce effects of raceway indentations on the rolling elements to the camera module performance.