Patents by Inventor Shikama Kazuo

Shikama Kazuo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11555979
    Abstract: A lens driving device which is small in size and good in focus adjustment and hand-shake correction disclosed, including: a housing, including a fixing base having a circuit substrate and a cover forming a receiving space; a spring piece connecting a lens module and a supporting frame; a supporting component for supporting the supporting frame and a second supporting frame in the housing; a first magnet steel, mounted and fixed on the supporting frame; a first drive coil, mounted on the lens module to enable a movement in an optical axis direction under an electromagnetic action; and a second drive coil, disposed on the fixing bases, and oppositely disposed near a horizontal plane of a gravity center of the lens module above a second magnet steel so that the second magnet steel mounted on the supporting frame moves along a direction orthogonal to the optical axis under the electromagnetic action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Shikama Kazuo
  • Patent number: 11536924
    Abstract: An optical element driving device is provided, which includes: a fixing component as a base; an original position being a neutral position with respect to the fixing component; a movable component movable in two reversed directions with respect to the original position; a first shape memory alloy energized to move the movable component towards one of the two reversed directions; a second shape memory alloy energized to move the movable component towards the other one of the two reversed directions; and a safety mechanism device arranged between the fixing component and the movable component, for preventing the first shape memory alloy and the second shape memory from being broken. The fixing component and the movable component are connected by the first shape memory alloy and the second shape memory alloy. The optical element driving device can avoid damage of shape memory alloy and thus have high reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fujisaki, Shikama Kazuo
  • Patent number: 11513364
    Abstract: Provided is a lens driver including a shake correction part, a lens module capable of driving in a direction horizontal to an optical axis of a reflected light, a shaft for supporting the lens module, an upper cover, a lower cover, a magnet, a coil, and a yoke. The shake correction part is provided with a prism, a prism cover, a second holding frame, a support part that performs double-shaft supporting, a shaft a of the shake correction part, and another shaft b of the shake correction part. The prism is rotatable in a direction a and a rotation direction b with respect to an optical axis of an incident light. The prism is mounted on the first holding frame on the fixture base. The lens driver provided can adjust movement of the optical axis, thereby achieving anti-dithering and thus obtaining good image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shikama Kazuo, Yoshifumi Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 11480809
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a camera device including a deflected optical system and provided with an anti-shake mechanism without increasing a size of the camera device. The optical system includes a reflection member that deflects an optical axis, and it sequentially includes, from an object side, a reflection member, camera lens groups, and a camera element, to rotate the reflection member with an axis perpendicular to a plane defined by an optical axis of the camera lens groups and an optical axis at the object side reflected by the reflection member, and an axis parallel to the optical axis at the reflected object side being rotation axes, in such a manner that a hand-shake is corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Shikama Kazuo
  • Patent number: 11463565
    Abstract: An image capturing device and a mobile electronic device are provided. The image capturing device includes a frame, a flexible circuit board connected to the frame, a camera lens assembly mounted at the middle of the frame, a first prism unit mounted at one end of the frame and at an object side of the camera lens assembly to receive light, a second prism unit mounted at another end of the frame and at an image side of the camera lens assembly, a first voice coil motor for driving the second prism unit to rotate about an X-axis direction in the frame, and a second voice coil motor for driving the second prism unit to rotate about a Y-axis direction in the frame. The first and second voice coil motors are electrically connected to the flexible circuit board. An overall appearance of a mobile electronic device is not affected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fujisaki, Shikama Kazuo
  • Patent number: 11372260
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anti-shake mechanism of a curved camera device. The camera device is an optical system including a reflecting member having a reflecting surface that bends an optical axis and is configured to perform a hand-shake correction by rotating the reflecting member. The reflecting member is disposed between a camera lens group and a camera element in such a manner that the reflecting member rotates about rotation axes, one of the rotation axes being perpendicular to a plane defined by an optical axis of the camera lens group and an optical axis reflected by the reflecting member, and the other one of the rotation axes being parallel with the reflected optical axis or parallel with the optical axis of the camera lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fujisaki, Shikama Kazuo
  • Patent number: 11366333
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anti-shake mechanism of a curved camera device. The camera device is an optical system including a reflecting member having a reflecting surface that bends an optical axis and is configured to perform a hand-shake correction by rotating the reflecting member. The reflecting member is arranged to be closer to an object side than a camera lens group. When a first rotation axis is set as an axis perpendicular to a plane defined by an optical axis of the camera lens group and an object-side optical axis reflected by the reflecting member and a second rotation axis is set as an axis parallel with the reflected object-side optical axis, the reflecting member is caused to rotate about the first rotation axis and the second rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fujisaki, Shikama Kazuo
  • Patent number: 11237456
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure lies in that in an optical device including a blade mounted on a lens or in space in a lens, it is possible to achieve miniaturization and light weight of the entire equipped device, simplification of driving and simplification of assembling, by using a shape memory alloy in a driving portion. A blade driving device includes: a base member supporting a blade; a blade; a plate member having a caliber and constituting a blade chamber; a plate member having a caliber, constituting the blade chamber and covering the blade; a ring member rotatably shaft-supported and including a connecting portion connected to the blade; an elastic member held by the base member and the ring member; a shape memory alloy held by the base member and the ring member; a holding member for holding the shape memory alloy; and a wiring for power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Shikama Kazuo
  • Patent number: 11199722
    Abstract: Provided is a lens driver movable in a direction parallel to an optical axis, arranged on a lens driver movable in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis, and accommodated in a casing. The lens driver includes: a fixture base, a support frame A, a lens module, a spring piece, a first driving coil, a magnet and a yoke. The lens driver includes: a base; a connection terminal and a conductive member A arranged on the base; a support frame B supported by a support part; a conductive member B arranged on the support frame; a center holding part for keeping the base and the support frame B at a center of the optical axis; a second driving coil arranged on the base; and a magnetic detecting element. The lens driver provided can achieve purposes of anti-image dithering and simplifying assembly to obtain good image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Chung Chiu, Shikama Kazuo
  • Patent number: 11106002
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lens driving device which is small and has good focus adjustment and hand shake correction. The lens driving device includes: a case; a lens module; a support frame; a spring leaf; a support part connecting the support frame with the fixing base in such a manner that the support frame is freely movable relative to the fixing base in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of a lens; a magnet steel; a first driving coil; and a second driving coil. Under an electromagnetic interaction between the second driving coil and a second portion of the magnet steel opposite to the second driving coil, the support frame moves relative to the fixing base in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Shikama Kazuo
  • Publication number: 20210199983
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a camera device including a deflected optical system and provided with an anti-shake mechanism without increasing a size of the camera device. The optical system includes a reflection member that deflects an optical axis, and it sequentially includes, from an object side, a reflection member, camera lens groups, and a camera element, to rotate the reflection member with an axis perpendicular to a plane defined by an optical axis of the camera lens groups and an optical axis at the object side reflected by the reflection member, and an axis parallel to the optical axis at the reflected object side being rotation axes, in such a manner that a hand-shake is corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Shikama Kazuo
  • Patent number: 10921549
    Abstract: A blade driving device includes: one or more blades; a base part for supporting the blade and to which an attraction magnet is fixed; a rod part rotatably and axially supported by the base part and including a connection portion connected to the blade; a rotation part rotatably and axially supported by the base part and including a connection portion connected to the rod part; a driving magnet-iron including magnet pole surfaces of different polarities fixed to the rotation part; and a coil wound around one of the magnet pole surfaces. The blade drive device includes a power supply terminal for supplying power from the wound coil to an external component, so as to supply power from a connection terminal provided at the connection line fixing base and connected to an external component via a spring leaf arranged on the lens driving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Shikama Kazuo
  • Publication number: 20200409023
    Abstract: A lens driving device which is small in size and good in focus adjustment and hand-shake correction disclosed, including: a housing, including a fixing base having a circuit substrate and a cover forming a receiving space; a spring piece connecting a lens module and a supporting frame; a supporting component for supporting the supporting frame and a second supporting frame in the housing; a first magnet steel, mounted and fixed on the supporting frame; a first drive coil, mounted on the lens module to enable a movement in an optical axis direction under an electromagnetic action; and a second drive coil, disposed on the fixing bases, and oppositely disposed near a horizontal plane of a gravity center of the lens module above a second magnet steel so that the second magnet steel mounted on the supporting frame moves along a direction orthogonal to the optical axis under the electromagnetic action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Shikama Kazuo
  • Publication number: 20200333622
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anti-shake mechanism of a curved camera device. The camera device is an optical system including a reflecting member having a reflecting surface that bends an optical axis and is configured to perform a hand-shake correction by rotating the reflecting member. The reflecting member is arranged to be closer to an object side than a camera lens group. When a first rotation axis is set as an axis perpendicular to a plane defined by an optical axis of the camera lens group and an object-side optical axis reflected by the reflecting member and a second rotation axis is set as an axis parallel with the reflected object-side optical axis, the reflecting member is caused to rotate about the first rotation axis and the second rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fujisaki, Shikama Kazuo
  • Publication number: 20200326497
    Abstract: An optical element driving device is provided, which includes: a fixing component as a base; an original position being a neutral position with respect to the fixing component; a movable component movable in two reversed directions with respect to the original position; a first shape memory alloy energized to move the movable component towards one of the two reversed directions; a second shape memory alloy energized to move the movable component towards the other one of the two reversed directions; and a safety mechanism device arranged between the fixing component and the movable component, for preventing the first shape memory alloy and the second shape memory from being broken. The fixing component and the movable component are connected by the first shape memory alloy and the second shape memory alloy. The optical element driving device can avoid damage of shape memory alloy and thus have high reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fujisaki, Shikama Kazuo
  • Publication number: 20200310148
    Abstract: Provided is a lens driver movable in a direction parallel to an optical axis, arranged on a lens driver movable in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis, and accommodated in a casing. The lens driver includes: a fixture base, a support frame A, a lens module, a spring piece, a first driving coil, a magnet and a yoke. The lens driver includes: a base; a connection terminal and a conductive member A arranged on the base; a support frame B supported by a support part; a conductive member B arranged on the support frame; a center holding part for keeping the base and the support frame B at a center of the optical axis; a second driving coil arranged on the base; and a magnetic detecting element. The lens driver provided can achieve purposes of anti-image dithering and simplifying assembly to obtain good image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Ching-Chung Chiu, Shikama Kazuo
  • Publication number: 20200310149
    Abstract: Provided is a lens driver including a shake correction part, a lens module capable of driving in a direction horizontal to an optical axis of a reflected light, a shaft for supporting the lens module, an upper cover, a lower cover, a magnet, a coil, and a yoke. The shake correction part is provided with a prism, a prism cover, a second holding frame, a support part that performs double-shaft supporting, a shaft a of the shake correction part, and another shaft b of the shake correction part. The prism is rotatable in a direction a and a rotation direction b with respect to an optical axis of an incident light. The prism is mounted on the first holding frame on the fixture base. The lens driver provided can adjust movement of the optical axis, thereby achieving anti-dithering and thus obtaining good image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Shikama Kazuo, Yoshifumi Fujisaki
  • Publication number: 20200301160
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anti-shake mechanism of a curved camera device. The camera device is an optical system including a reflecting member having a reflecting surface that bends an optical axis and is configured to perform a hand-shake correction by rotating the reflecting member. The reflecting member is disposed between a camera lens group and a camera element in such a manner that the reflecting member rotates about rotation axes, one of the rotation axes being perpendicular to a plane defined by an optical axis of the camera lens group and an optical axis reflected by the reflecting member, and the other one of the rotation axes being parallel with the reflected optical axis or parallel with the optical axis of the camera lens group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fujisaki, Shikama Kazuo
  • Publication number: 20200292915
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure lies in that in an optical device including a blade mounted on a lens or in space in a lens, it is possible to achieve miniaturization and light weight of the entire equipped device, simplification of driving and simplification of assembling, by using a shape memory alloy in a driving portion. A blade driving device includes: a base member supporting a blade; a blade; a plate member having a caliber and constituting a blade chamber; a plate member having a caliber, constituting the blade chamber and covering the blade; a ring member rotatably shaft-supported and including a connecting portion connected to the blade; an elastic member held by the base member and the ring member; a shape memory alloy held by the base member and the ring member; a holding member for holding the shape memory alloy; and a wiring for power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Shikama Kazuo
  • Publication number: 20200249426
    Abstract: A blade driving device includes: one or more blades; a base part for supporting the blade and to which an attraction magnet is fixed; a rod part rotatably and axially supported by the base part and including a connection portion connected to the blade; a rotation part rotatably and axially supported by the base part and including a connection portion connected to the rod part; a driving magnet-iron including magnet pole surfaces of different polarities fixed to the rotation part; and a coil wound around one of the magnet pole surfaces. The blade drive device includes a power supply terminal for supplying power from the wound coil to an external component, so as to supply power from a connection terminal provided at the connection line fixing base and connected to an external component via a spring leaf arranged on the lens driving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: Shikama Kazuo