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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2013
Sony Corporation, Minato-ku, JP;
Toshihiro Furusawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshihito Higashitsutsumi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukihisa Kinugasa, Tokyo, JP;
Hideo Kawabe, Saitama, JP;
Takehisa Ishida, Tokyo, JP;
Yusaku Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuyuki Nagai, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayoshi Morita, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a camera module including: a lens; an image pickup device arranged on an optical axis of the lens; and an actuator section configured to reciprocate the image pickup device in an optical axis direction of the lens, wherein the actuator section includes a movable joint section on which the image pickup device is fixed, a parallel link mechanism section having a movable end section attached to the movable joint section and a mounting end section, and a movable element that is configured to perform displacement motion by a displacement amount depending on a level of a voltage to be applied and that is coupled to a coupling region between the movable joint section and the movable end section of the parallel link mechanism section in such a manner that the displacement motion is transmittable.