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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2008
Applicants:
Akihito Wada, Nagano, JP;
Toshifumi Tsuruta, Nagano, JP;
Inventors:
Akihito Wada, Nagano, JP;
Toshifumi Tsuruta, Nagano, JP;
Assignee:
Nidec Sankyo Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A lens driving device may include a movable lens body which holds a lens, and a driving mechanism for moving the movable lens body in an optical axis direction. The driving mechanism includes coils attached to the movable lens body, and a magnet opposed to the coils. When a gap between the coils and the magnet is expressed as A, and the width of the coil is expressed as B, a conditional expression of 0.3B≦A≦B is satisfied.