US 11,982,863 B2
Camera actuator, camera module, and camera mounting device
Masahiro Saito, Tokyo (JP); Keiichi Yamamoto, Tokyo (JP); and Hiroshi Matsuda, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/050,840
Filed by MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 10, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/015690
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 27, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/208227, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 31, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-087355 (JP), filed on Apr. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0231906 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. H04N 23/68 (2023.01); G02B 7/09 (2021.01)
CPC G02B 7/09 (2013.01) [H04N 23/687 (2023.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera actuator, comprising:
a fixed-side member;
a movable-side member provided so as to be displaceable with respect to the fixed-side member and holding a lens part; and
a driving section including a driving mechanism that generates a driving force that displaces the movable-side member within a plane including a first direction which is a direction of a light entering the lens and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, wherein:
the driving mechanism includes a pair of driving mechanism parts that generate, for autofocusing, a driving force in the same direction to displace the movable-side member in the first direction,
the pair of driving mechanism parts generates as the driving force a resultant force obtained by combining thrust that displaces the movable-side member in a specific direction that is the first direction, and a resistance force that resists an external force acting so as to cause the movable-side member to deviate from the specific direction; and
the pair of driving mechanism parts generates the resistance force based on a spare data stored by calibration performed in advance,
wherein:
the spare data includes an amount of displacement of the movable-side member in the specific direction in the autofocusing, an amount of deviation of the movable-side member from the specific direction corresponding to the amount of displacement, and a current value which sets the amount of deviation to zero; and
the resistance force is a force to reduce the amount of deviation of the movable-side member corresponding to the amount of displacement of the movable-side member in the specific direction in the autofocusing.