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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2006
Young Ho Lee, Yongin, KR;
Jae Young Bae, Suwon, KR;
Sung Chan Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jin Hyuck Yang, Suwon, KR;
Ha Yong Jung, Suwon, KR;
Young Ho Lee, Yongin, KR;
Jae Young Bae, Suwon, KR;
Sung Chan Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jin Hyuck Yang, Suwon, KR;
Ha Yong Jung, Suwon, KR;
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a liquid zoom lens. The liquid zoom lens comprises a cylindrical body including glass lenses respectively coupled at upper and lower openings to the body, an auto-focus lens part including a first liquid insulating layer and a first electrolyte layer stacked at a lower portion of the body to form an interface therebetween, and an optical zoom lens part including a second liquid insulating layer and a second electrolyte layer stacked on the first electrolyte layer to form an interface therebetween and a lens positioned in the second liquid insulating layer and fixed to the body with an outer peripheral surface of the lens closely contacting an inner peripheral surface of the body. The liquid zoom lens enables an auto-focus function and an optical zoom function to be performed simultaneously by means of a single liquid lens having a variable curvature.