US 12,326,649 B1
Compact folded camera
Itay Jerby, Tel Aviv (IL); Itay Yedid, Tel Aviv (IL); Gal Avivi, Tel Aviv (IL); Ephraim Goldenberg, Tel Aviv (IL); Gil Bachar, Tel Aviv (IL); and Gal Shabtay, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on Feb. 24, 2025, as Appl. No. 19/060,898.
Application 19/060,898 is a continuation of application No. 18/747,596, filed on Jun. 19, 2024, granted, now 12,259,639.
Application 18/747,596 is a continuation of application No. 18/480,530, filed on Oct. 4, 2023, granted, now 12,038,671, issued on Jul. 16, 2024.
Application 18/480,530 is a continuation of application No. 17/110,344, filed on Dec. 3, 2020, granted, now 11,809,065, issued on Nov. 7, 2023.
Application 17/110,344 is a continuation of application No. 16/332,946, granted, now 10,884,321, issued on Jan. 5, 2021, previously published as PCT/IB2017/058403, filed on Dec. 26, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/445,271, filed on Jan. 12, 2017.
Int. Cl. G03B 17/04 (2021.01); G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/64 (2006.01); G03B 3/02 (2021.01)
CPC G03B 17/04 (2013.01) [G02B 13/0035 (2013.01); G02B 27/646 (2013.01); G03B 3/02 (2013.01); G03B 2215/0507 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A folded camera, comprising:
an optical path folding element (OPFE) folding light from a first optical path to a second optical path;
an image sensor;
a printed circuit board (PCB) attached to a flex PCB;
a connector attached to the flex PCB;
a lens comprising a plurality of lens elements and positioned along the second optical path between the OPFE and the image sensor, wherein the image sensor is wire bonded to the PCB with wire bonds located on sides of the image sensor that are substantially parallel to the first optical path, and wherein the flex PCB is attached on a side of the image sensor and extends substantially perpendicular to the first optical path towards the connector such that the flex PCB does not exceed the height of the image sensor and does not increase the camera height, and
a top lid and a bottom lid, wherein the top lid is positioned in a plane parallel to a surface of the OPFE facing the first optical path and wherein the bottom lid is parallel to the top lid, wherein the top and bottom lids are positioned respectively above and below the lens along the first optical path, wherein the lens has a flat top facet and a flat bottom facet along the first optical path, wherein the lens has a lens height measured from the flat top facet and to the flat bottom facet, wherein all heights measured along a height axis parallel to the first optical path, and wherein the folded camera has a folded camera height equal to the lens height, a thickness of the top lid, a thickness of the bottom lid, a thickness of a first air gap between the lens and top lid and a thickness of a second air gap between the lens and bottom lid.