公开(公告)号：US20240214684A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-27

申请号：US18596529

申请日：2024-03-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh ,  Aurelien R Hubert ,  Phillip R Sommer

IPC: H04N23/68 ,  G02B7/08 ,  G02B27/64 ,  G03B5/00 ,  G03B13/36 ,  H02K41/035 ,  H04N23/63

CPC classification number: H04N23/687 ,  G02B7/08 ,  G02B27/646 ,  G03B5/00 ,  G03B13/36 ,  H02K41/0356 ,  G03B2205/0007 ,  G03B2205/0069 ,  H02K2201/18 ,  H04N23/63

Abstract: A camera includes a camera actuator having autofocus (AF) voice coil motor (VCM) with a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to a base, magnets mounted to the base, and an AF coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an optical axis of a lens of the lens carrier. The magnets may include a pair of first magnets laterally spaced along a first side of the camera and a pair of second magnets laterally spaced along a second side of the camera opposite the first side. The optical image stabilization (OIS) VCM includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the base, and OIS coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in directions orthogonal to the optical axis.

公开(公告)号：US11956544B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-09

申请号：US17719287

申请日：2022-04-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh ,  Aurelien R Hubert ,  Phillip R Sommer

IPC: H04N23/68 ,  G02B7/08 ,  G02B27/64 ,  G03B5/00 ,  G03B13/36 ,  H02K41/035 ,  H04N23/63

CPC classification number: H04N23/687 ,  G02B7/08 ,  G02B27/646 ,  G03B5/00 ,  G03B13/36 ,  H02K41/0356 ,  G03B2205/0007 ,  G03B2205/0069 ,  H02K2201/18 ,  H04N23/63

Abstract: A camera includes a camera actuator having autofocus (AF) voice coil motor (VCM) with a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to a base, magnets mounted to the base, and an AF coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an optical axis of a lens of the lens carrier. The magnets may include a pair of first magnets laterally spaced along a first side of the camera and a pair of second magnets laterally spaced along a second side of the camera opposite the first side. The optical image stabilization (OIS) VCM includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the base, and OIS coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in directions orthogonal to the optical axis.

公开(公告)号：US20220247931A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-04

申请号：US17719287

申请日：2022-04-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh ,  Aurelien R Hubert ,  Phillip R Sommer

IPC: H04N5/232 ,  G03B5/00 ,  G02B27/64 ,  G02B7/08 ,  G03B13/36 ,  H02K41/035

Abstract: A camera includes a camera actuator having autofocus (AF) voice coil motor (VCM) with a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to a base, magnets mounted to the base, and an AF coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an optical axis of a lens of the lens carrier. The magnets may include a pair of first magnets laterally spaced along a first side of the camera and a pair of second magnets laterally spaced along a second side of the camera opposite the first side. The optical image stabilization (OIS) VCM includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the base, and OIS coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in directions orthogonal to the optical axis.

公开(公告)号：US12231753B1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-18

申请号：US17930383

申请日：2022-09-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Phillip R Sommer ,  Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh

IPC: H04N23/54 ,  H04N23/50 ,  H04N23/55 ,  H04N23/67 ,  H04N23/68

Abstract: A camera includes a lens group, an image sensor, an actuator to move the image sensor relative to the lens group, and a flexure that suspends the image sensor from a stationary structure of the camera and that allows motion of the image sensor enabled by the actuator. The flexure includes a dynamic platform to which the image sensor is connected such that the image sensor moves with the dynamic platform, a static platform connected to a static portion of the camera, a plurality of flexure arms that mechanically connect the dynamic platform to the static platform, and one or more elastic spacers positioned between at least two flexure arms of the plurality of flexure arms.

公开(公告)号：US20240107167A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-28

申请号：US18461367

申请日：2023-09-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh ,  Aurelien R Hubert

IPC: H04N23/68 ,  H04N23/54 ,  H04N23/55

CPC classification number: H04N23/687 ,  H04N23/54 ,  H04N23/55 ,  H04N23/67

Abstract: An actuator assembly for a camera module is provided. The actuator assembly includes a transversal actuator for motion of an image sensor of the camera module in one or more directions orthogonal to an optical axis of the camera module. The actuator assembly also includes an axial actuator for motion of the image sensor in one or more directions parallel to the optical axis of the camera module. The actuator assembly further includes a carrier retaining a portion of the transversal actuator and a portion of the axial actuator. The carrier moves with the image sensor in the one or more directions orthogonal to the optical axis of the camera module and is static relative to motion of the image sensor in the one or more directions parallel to the optical axis of the camera module.