US 11,868,037 B2
Camera assembly and assembling method thereof
Chang Yeon Kim, Seongnam-si (KR); Byeong Ho Lee, Seongnam-si (KR); and Hye Jin Yu, Seongnam-si (KR)
Assigned to HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD., Seongnam-si (KR)
Filed by HANWHA TECHWIN CO., LTD., Seongnam-si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/068,202.
Application 18/068,202 is a continuation of application No. 17/201,786, filed on Mar. 15, 2021, granted, now 11,531,251.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0031832 (KR), filed on Mar. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0120546 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. G03B 5/04 (2021.01); G02B 7/00 (2021.01)
CPC G03B 5/04 (2013.01) [G02B 7/005 (2013.01); G03B 2205/0084 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera assembly comprising:
a motor configured to generate a driving power;
a motor shaft that extends from the motor, such as to define a first axis, and is configured to rotate by the driving power of the motor;
a pulley configured to rotate on a second axis, that is spaced from the first axis, according to rotation of the motor shaft;
a belt configured to couple the motor shaft and the pulley, and convert the rotation of the motor shaft to rotation of the pulley, and tension of the belt applies a force to the motor shaft in a direction towards the second axis;
a camera module configured to be mounted on the pulley and rotate together with the pulley;
an elastic body configured to apply a biasing force to the motor shaft such as to bias the motor shaft in a direction away from the second axis;
a base configured to be fixed at a side of a housing of the camera assembly;
a movable body configured to be fixedly coupled to the motor and rotatably mounted on the base;
a fastener configured to fixedly couple the motor and the movable body,
a fixed shaft configured to rotatably mount the movable body on a first point of the base; and
at least one movable shaft configured to be coupled to one from among the base and the movable body at a respective second point, that is spaced from the first point,
wherein the at least one movable shaft comprises two movable shafts that are received in a first corresponding slot and a second corresponding slot, respectively, and the first corresponding slot and the second corresponding are in the other from among the base and the movable body such as to support sliding motion of the movable body, and
wherein the first corresponding slot and the second corresponding are elongated in a circumferential direction according to a same rotation radius extending from the first point.