US 12,332,543 B2
Camera module
Haruno Yoshida, Tenri (JP); Akihiro Iida, Tenri (JP); and Yoshihito Ishizue, Tenri (JP)
Assigned to Sharp Sensing Technology Corporation, Tenri (JP)
Filed by Sharp Sensing Technology Corporation, Tenri (JP)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/969,675.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-081734 (JP), filed on May 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0375899 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G03B 13/34 (2021.01); G03B 17/17 (2021.01)
CPC G03B 13/34 (2013.01) [G03B 17/17 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera module comprising:
a first lens barrel holding a first lens group configured to receive object light;
a second lens barrel holding a second lens group disposed in a traveling direction of the object light with respect to the first lens group;
a lens driving unit configured to drive the second lens barrel in a first direction along a first optical axis of the second lens group; and
a guide for guiding a direction where the lens driving unit drives the second lens barrel,
wherein the first lens barrel has a first guide recess fitted in the guide,
the second lens barrel has a second guide recess fitted in the guide,
one of the first guide recess and the second guide recess is formed so as to fix the guide in the first direction, and
another of the first guide recess and the second guide recess is formed in such a manner that the guide slides in the first direction with respect to the another.