Patents Assigned to New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11927178
    Abstract: Disclosed are a drive structure for an OIS motor, an OIS motor, and a camera device. The key points of technical solutions are: a drive structure for an OIS motor includes a base, a conductive layer, a spring, and four SMA wires, the base is made of an insulating material, the conductive layer is disposed in the base, and terminals of the conductive layer protrude from the surface of the base; the base is provided with two first crimpers electrically connected to the conductive layer and disposed opposite to each other, the spring is provided with two second crimpers disposed opposite to each other, the four SMA wires are uniformly distributed on four sides of the base, and two ends of the SMA wires are respectively connected to the corresponding first crimpers and second crimpers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yin Pan
  • Patent number: 11929659
    Abstract: Disclosed are a voice coil motor base, a voice coil motor provided with the voice coil motor base, and a camera module. The voice coil motor base includes a base body and two electrode terminals disposed on one side edge of the base body, and further includes a molding tape embedded in the base body. The molding tape is connected to the electrode terminals, the molding tape is provided with pins, and the pins connected to a circuit are disposed inside the voice coil motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Dongming Wang
  • Patent number: 11789339
    Abstract: A camera device includes: a lens carrier that holds a lens body; and a blade driving device that drives a blade arranged on a front side of the lens body, wherein the lens carrier has a metallic carrier side receiving portion extending forward from a front end of the lens carrier, the blade driving device has a metallic blade side receiving portion protruding sideward or rearward from a side surface or a bottom surface of the blade driving device, and the carrier side receiving portion and the blade side receiving portion are fixed and electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xuepeng Fu, Tomoyoshi Yano
  • Patent number: 11653080
    Abstract: An optical member driving device is provided. The device includes a fixed portion with an accommodation space for accommodating a lens device and a movable portion which includes a holding portion for holding an image sensor and is supported by a suspension wire at a position on a rear side of the lens device. The fixed portion has a case surrounding a periphery of the movable portion, and the movable portion has a coil substrate on which a coil is formed. The coil substrate has a main body portion and stopper portions projecting outward from a circumference of the main body portion, and the stopper portions are directly opposed to an inner surface of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventor: Tatsuki Wade
  • Patent number: 11604326
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a driving device includes a base, a lower spring, a lens unit, an upper spring, a coil, and a magnet. The base has a terminal. The lower spring is elastically provided between the base and the lens unit. The lens unit is movably provided on the base relative to the base. The upper spring is provided on the lens unit. The coil is provided on the lens unit. The magnet is arranged corresponding to the coil. One end of the terminal is exposed from a bottom portion of the base, and the other end extends toward the upper spring to be electrically connected to the upper spring. The upper spring is also electrically connected to the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wei Sun, Juhe Zhou
  • Patent number: 11606486
    Abstract: An actuator is disclosed having a sensor substrate, a coil substrate and an FPC. The sensor substrate includes an image sensor on a front surface thereof. The coil substrate includes a coil for driving the image sensor and is provided with a first through hole. The FPC includes a main body portion and a coupling portion extending from a periphery of the main body portion and is coupled to an outside element. The main body portion is provided with a second through hole. The sensor substrate is fixed to the main body portion from a rear side, the coil substrate is fixed to the main body portion from a front side, and the image sensor is exposed to a front surface through the first through hole and the second through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xuepeng Fu, Tatsuki Wade
  • Patent number: 11598932
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a driving device housing with an axial direction is provided. The driving device housing is made of permeability magnetic material and polygonal in outer shape. The driving device housing includes an outer peripheral side wall and a housing top wall connected to a front side of the outer peripheral side wall. The housing top wall includes an opening allowing light to pass through. The housing further includes at least one step portion at each corner portion thereof. The step portion includes a step horizontal wall extending in a direction intersecting with the axial direction and a step vertical wall extending from the step horizontal wall toward a front side or a rear side. A magnet mounting portion is formed by an inner peripheral wall surface of the step vertical wall and an inner peripheral wall surface of the outer peripheral side wall adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Lu Zhao, Juhe Zhou
  • Patent number: 11570364
    Abstract: An optical member driving device is provided that includes a fixed portion with an accommodation space for a lens device, and a movable portion, which has a holding portion for holding an image sensor, and is rockably supported at a position on a rear side of the lens device. The movable portion includes an FPC having a main body portion connected to the image sensor and a connecting portion for connecting the main body portion and an external device and a coil substrate which is fixed on a front surface of the main body portion of the FPC and on which a coil is formed. The connecting portion has a base end portion which rises from a predetermined position on an edge of the main body portion to a front side. The base end portion is opposed to a side surface of the coil substrate with an adhesive interposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tatsuki Wade, Masahiro Akatsu
  • Patent number: 11553119
    Abstract: A lens driving device is disclosed that includes two movers, a long quadrangular frame body, at least two coils and an FPC. The movers are arranged side by side and provided with a through hole for accommodating a lens body, respectively. The frame body surrounds an outer periphery of the two movers. The two coils face one mover of the two movers and are fixed to two long sides of the frame body. The FPC includes coil connecting terminals electrically connected to the two coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventor: Xuepeng Fu
  • Patent number: 11543619
    Abstract: A lens driving device includes: a box-shaped lens carrier for fixing a lens barrel to the inside thereof which lens barrel is for guiding light from an imaging target to a photo detecting sensor, wherein the lens carrier has a first opening through which light from the imaging target enters, a second opening through which light toward the photo detecting sensor exits, and a third opening for mounting the lens barrel, wherein the third opening is formed between ends of two opposing side walls of the box-shaped lens carrier other than side walls being formed with the first opening and the second opening, wherein inner surfaces of the two opposing side walls are formed in parallel with respect to each other from the third opening to the center of the lens carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 11506954
    Abstract: An image blur correction apparatus includes a focus adjustment unit for moving a lens body in the direction of its optical axis; an image blur correction unit; and a housing having a housing front side wall on the front side of the direction of the optical axis and disposed outside said focus adjustment unit and the image blur correction unit, the focus adjustment unit has a focus adjustment unit front side wall on the front side of the direction of the optical axis, the focus adjustment unit front side wall including an exposed portion provided around the insertion hole and a hollow portion recessed toward the rear side of the direction of the optical axis with respect to said exposed portion; and the hollow portion and the rear side of the housing front side wall in the direction of the optical axis are provided to face opposite each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Wade, Kei Onodera
  • Patent number: 11500272
    Abstract: A biaxial tilting device includes: a frame body; and a tilting and driving mechanism configured to drive a member to be tilted so as to be tilted in the frame body, wherein, in an XYZ orthogonal coordinate system, the frame body includes a first gimbal frame opposed to two of the side surfaces of the member to be tilted, each extending in a Y-Z plane direction, and a second gimbal frame opposed to other two of the side surfaces of the member to be tilted, each extending in an X-Z plane direction, and wherein the first gimbal frame is coupled to an external member, the second gimbal frame is coupled to the member to be tilted in a tillable manner, and the first gimbal frame and the second gimbal frame are coupled to each other in a tiltable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kokichi Terajima
  • Patent number: 11488756
    Abstract: An optical member supporting device is described that includes, in an XYZ rectangular coordinate system, spherical bodies, a first holding portion and a second holding portion, an optical member held by the first holding portion or the second holding portion, first yokes protruding from the first holding portion facing the second holding portion, and second yokes protruding from the second holding portion facing the first holding portion and opposed to the first yokes in a predetermined direction in the X-Y direction. The first holding portion and second holding portion extend in an X-Y direction and are opposed in a Z direction with the spherical body interposed therebetween. The second holding portion includes a second magnet and the first yokes and the second yokes are opposed to the second magnet in the Z direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventor: Kokichi Terajima
  • Patent number: 11480752
    Abstract: A piezoelectric driving device includes: a driving portion to be brought into frictional contact with an object to be driven, which is moved with respect to a fixed body; and at least two piezoelectric portions, which are formed integrally with the driving portion, are arranged on a predetermined plane with the driving portion being sandwiched between the at least two piezoelectric portions, and are configured to be bent with respect to the predetermined plane when voltages are applied to the at least two piezoelectric portions, wherein outer edges of entirety of the at least two piezoelectric portions are fixed to the fixed body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kokichi Terajima, Masahiro Akatsu, Kei Onodera
  • Publication number: 20220329143
    Abstract: An OIS motor and a ball-based four-axis Tilt OIS (optical image stabilization) structure. The ball-based four-axis Tilt OIS structure includes a housing and a lens holder disposed in an inner cavity of the housing, a plurality of magnets is evenly distributed on the inner wall of the housing, a plurality of coils corresponding to the magnets is evenly distributed on side walls of the lens holder, the coils on the same side wall of the lens holder are wound in the same direction, the coils on the two opposite side walls of the lens holder are wound in reverse directions, and a movable mechanism is disposed between the housing and the lens holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ji ZHOU, Yingchi CHO
  • Patent number: 11470255
    Abstract: An optical member driving device, including: a sensor substrate to which an image sensor is fixed; a first slider fixed to the sensor substrate; a second slider slidable along a first direction orthogonal to an optical axis direction; and a third slider which is fixed to a lens unit which includes, and is slidable along a second direction, wherein any one of the first slider and the second slider has a first projecting member extending along the first direction, and another one of the first slider and the second slider has a first groove that is to fit over the first projecting member, and wherein any one of the second slider and the third slider has a second projecting member extending along the second direction, and another one of the second slider and the third slider has a second groove that is to fit over the second projecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 11470230
    Abstract: A lens driving device, includes: a fixing portion; a lens support; a first slider; a second slider held by the first slider so as to be slidable in a first direction; and a third slider which is provided on the lens support, and is held by the second slider so as to be slidable in a second direction, wherein any one of the first slider and the second slider has a first projecting member extending along the first direction, and another one of the first slider and the second slider has a first groove that is to fit aver the first projecting member, and wherein any one of the second slider and the third slider has a second projecting member extending along the second direction, and another one of the second slider and the third slider has a second groove that is to fit over the second projecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NEW SHICOH MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20220316459
    Abstract: Disclosed are a drive structure for an OIS motor, an OIS motor, and a camera device. The key points of technical solutions are: a drive structure for an OIS motor includes a base, a conductive layer, a spring, and four SMA wires, the base is made of an insulating material, the conductive layer is disposed in the base, and terminals of the conductive layer protrude from the surface of the base; the base is provided with two first crimpers electrically connected to the conductive layer and disposed opposite to each other, the spring is provided with two second crimpers disposed opposite to each other, the four SMA wires are uniformly distributed on four sides of the base, and two ends of the SMA wires are respectively connected to the corresponding first crimpers and second crimpers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yin PAN
  • Publication number: 20220308422
    Abstract: Disclosed are an AF (autofocus) motor structure, a camera device, and an electronic product. The AF motor structure includes a base, a housing, a bracket, a main carrier, and a lens , the bracket is provided with a main coil for driving the main carrier to move, and the main carrier is provided with a magnet corresponding to the main coil; the main carrier is provided with a continuous zoom assembly that drives the lens to move, the continuous zoom assembly includes a sub-carrier movable relative to the main carrier in the sliding direction of the main carrier and a sub-coil disposed on the sub-carrier, the lens is connected to the sub-carrier, and the sub-coil corresponds to the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hua WEI
  • Publication number: 20220310297
    Abstract: A drive structure, including a frame. A carrier assembly and a drive assembly are disposed in the frame; the carrier assembly includes a first carrier and a second carrier disposed on the first carrier; the drive assembly includes a first drive device and a second drive device, the first drive device is mounted in the frame, an output end of the first drive device is connected to and drives the first carrier, the second drive device is mounted on the first carrier, and the second drive device is connected to and drives the second carrier. Further, a drive device and an electronic equipment are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: New Shicoh Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zaiwei WANG