Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a gimbal mechanism swingably supporting a movable body and including a connection mechanism including a spherical body and a support part contacted with the spherical body. The movable body includes a holding part holding a gimbal frame receiving member including a plate part fixed with the spherical body and a pair of protruded parts protruded to the support part side. The holding part is formed in a cut-out recessed part including a rear wall face, a pair of side wall faces, and a bottom wall face. When viewed in the optical axis direction, a pair of the protruded parts overlaps the support part. The movable body includes a facing wall part facing a pair of the protruded parts, and a separated distance between the facing wall part and the protruded parts is narrower than a thickness of the support part.

Abstract: An optical unit having a shake correction function, includes a movable body including an optical module, a fixed body supporting the movable body in a swingable manner, a swing drive mechanism swinging the movable body relative to the fixed body and including a magnet and a coil, one of the magnet and the coil being fixed to the movable body, the other one of the magnet and the coil being fixed to the fixed body, a magnetic member returning the movable body to an original position, a magnetic detection sensor detecting a magnetic field of the magnet, and a wiring member being connected with the coil. The wiring member includes a mounting face on which the magnetic detection sensor, the magnetic member, and the coil are fixed. The centers of the magnetic detection sensor, the magnetic member, and the coil are coaxially fixed to the mounting face.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a movable body, a gimbal mechanism, a fixed body and a magnetic drive mechanism. The gimbal mechanism includes a gimbal frame, a first connection mechanism turnably connecting the movable body with the gimbal frame around a first axis, and a second connection mechanism turnably connecting the fixed body with the gimbal frame around a second axis. The first connection mechanism includes a first spherical body, a first spherical body fixing part to which the first spherical body is fixed in one of the movable body and the gimbal frame and, in the other, a first spherical body support part having a first concave curved face which faces the first spherical body fixing part and contacts with the first spherical body, and the first spherical body fixing part has a first fixing hole to which the first spherical body is partly fitted.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function has a shake correction function for correcting a shake of an optical module. The optical unit with a shake correction function includes: a movable body including the optical module; a fixed body disposed outward of the movable body in a radial direction with respect to an optical axis of the optical module; and a support part disposed between the movable body and the fixed body in the radial direction and structured to support the movable body such that the movable body is swingable relative to the fixed body. The movable body and the support part or the support part and the fixed body have, in a pair, a swing mechanism structured to allow the movable body to swing relative to the fixed body. The swing mechanism includes a protruded spherical portion and a recessed spherical portion that is larger in radius of curvature than the protruded spherical portion.

Abstract: An optical unit may include a movable body having an optical module, a fixed body, a support mechanism structured to swingably support the movable body, and a magnetic drive part which is provided on at least two faces of the movable body and the fixed body and is structured to swing the movable body. All faces of one of the movable body and the fixed body may be formed with a protruded part protruded to a direction where the movable body and the fixed body are faced each other, all faces of the other of the movable body and the fixed body may be formed with a contact part capable of contacting with the protruded part, and the face of the one of the movable body and the fixed body where the magnetic drive part is provided is formed with the protruded part on both sides of the magnetic drive part.

Abstract: An optical unit with a runout correction function includes a reflection member, a camera module having a lens and an image pickup element, a holding member that rotatably holds the reflection member and also holds the camera module, and a fixing member that rotatably holds the holding member. A second rotation mechanism rotates the reflection member held in the holding member with an optical axis direction, which is a direction of an optical axis of the lens, as an axis direction of the rotation and is capable of runout correction in a yaw direction. In the optical unit with a runout correction function, when the runout correction in the yaw direction is performed, the image pickup element held in the holding member is rotated together with the reflection member with the optical axis direction as the axis direction of rotation.

Abstract: An optical unit includes a movable body having an optical module having an optical axis and having a protruding portion protruding in an optical axis direction in which the optical axis extends, a fixed body facing the protruding portion of the movable body and having a recess recessed in the optical axis direction, a plurality of support mechanisms each of which is located between the recess of the fixed body and the protruding portion of the movable body and supports the movable body with respect to the fixed body, and a swing mechanism that swings the movable body with respect to the fixed body. A plurality of the support mechanisms are arranged on the same circumference around the optical axis, and the swing mechanism is located radially outward with respect to the protruding portion of the movable body.

Abstract: An optical unit comprises a movable body, a fixed body, a rotation support mechanism, and a gimbal mechanism, in which the movable body has a first side surface, a second side surface, a third side surface, and a fourth side surface as movable-body side surfaces, the first side surface positioning on an opposite side to the third side surface, and the second side surface positioning on an opposite side to the fourth side surface, a flexible printed circuit board is connected to the movable body on the first side surface side, has clearances provided with respect to the movable-body side surface, and has side-surface facing regions facing the movable-body side surface, and the side-surface facing regions are arranged to face the first side surface and the second side surface but not to face the third side surface and the fourth side surface.

Abstract: In this optical unit, a spring portion connecting a movable body to a holding body includes a first plate spring formed in a plate shape and elastically deformable in a rotation direction of the movable body relative to the holding body, and second plate springs formed in a plate shape and elastically deformable in an optical axis direction. The first plate spring and the second plate springs are separately formed. The first plate spring and the second plate spring that are separately formed are fixed to each other, and the first plate spring and the second plate spring that are separately formed are fixed to each other.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function may include a movable body, a gimbal mechanism swingably supporting the movable body around a first axis and a second axis, a fixed body supporting the movable body. The gimbal mechanism may include a gimbal frame, a first connection mechanism turnably connecting the movable body with the gimbal frame around the first axis, and a second connection mechanism turnably connecting the fixed body with the gimbal frame around the second axis. The first connection mechanism may include a first spherical body and a first concave curved face point-contacted with the first spherical body. The movable body may include an outer case and a protruded part protruded from the outer case at a diagonal position of the outer case in the first axis direction, and one of the first spherical body and the first concave curved face may be disposed in the protruded part.

Abstract: A movable unit of an optical module having an image shake correction function is supported by a gimbal mechanism so as to be rotatable around a first axis R1 and a second axis R2. The movable body is driven by a shake-correction magnetic drive mechanism including magnets and fixed to the movable body. The movable body further includes a lens-moving magnetic drive mechanism to move a lens module in an optical axis direction. The lens-moving magnetic drive mechanism includes a lens-moving coil fixed to the lens module 7 and a lens-moving magnet disposed radially outward of the lens-moving coil. The magnets and also serve as the lens-moving magnet and are disposed radially outward of a triaxial intersection.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a movable body having an optical module, a gimbal mechanism structured to swingably support the movable body around a first axial line and a second axial line, a fixed body supporting the movable body through the gimbal mechanism, and a shake correction drive mechanism structured to swing the movable body around the first axial line and around the second axial line. The gimbal mechanism includes a gimbal frame which connects the movable body with the fixed body, the gimbal frame has a first frame portion located on one side in an optical axis direction with respect to a first end part which is an end part on the one side of the fixed body, and the movable body has a movable body protruded portion located on the one side in the optical axis direction with respect to the first end part.

Abstract: An optical unit is provided which enables performing shake correction of a moving element in the optical axis direction and the direction around the optical axis with a simple configuration and which takes into account ease of assembly. Specifically, this optical unit is provided with: a moving element (14) which is provided with an optical module; a static element (16); a rolling support mechanism (20) which supports the moving element with respect to the static element rotatably about the optical axis of the optical module; and a rolling drive mechanism (18) which rotates the moving element about the optical axis.

Abstract: An optical unit having a shake correction function may include a movable body including an optical module; a fixed body that supports the movable body in a swingable manner; a swing drive mechanism that includes a magnet and a coil forming a magnet-coil pair, with a counterpart of the magnet-coil pair being fixed to the movable body and another counterpart to the fixed body, and swings the movable body relative to the fixed body; a magnetic detection sensor that detects a magnetic field of the magnet; and a magnetic member that returns the movable body to an original position by a magnetic attraction force with the magnet. The magnetic detection sensor overlaps the magnetic member as viewed in a direction orthogonal to a thickness direction of the magnetic member.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a movable module and a fixed body. The movable module has a lens and is supported by the fixed body to be capable of moving in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens. The fixed body surrounds the movable module from an outer periphery side. The movable module includes a first substrate and a second substrate, with a thickness direction of either substrate being consistent with the direction along the optical axis. An image sensor is disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate is electrically connected to the first substrate to overlap the first substrate on an image side, and is smaller in shape than the first substrate when viewed along the optical axis of the lens. A flexible printed circuit board is led out from an outer circumferential surface of the second substrate.

Abstract: An optical unit having a shake correction function may include a movable body including an optical module, a fixed body that supports the movable body via a gimbal mechanism, and a shake correction drive mechanism that swings the movable body around a first axis and a second axis intersecting each other. The shake correction drive mechanism may be disposed on two intersecting faces out of four faces of the movable body. A first flexible printed circuit board may be led out from one of the two faces, of which the shake correction drive mechanism is not disposed on either.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function may include an optical module having an optical element and an image pickup element, a movable body holding the optical module, a swing support mechanism swingably supporting the movable body, a fixed body supporting the movable body through the swing support mechanism, a shake correction drive mechanism structured to swing the movable body, and a stopper mechanism structured to restrict a movable range of the movable body. The stopper mechanism may include a spacer member in the movable body which includes a stopper protruded part extended to an opposite side to an object to be photographed with respect to the image pickup element, and a stopper member to abut with the stopper protruded part of the spacer member. The spacer member may be fixed to a member different from the optical module in the movable body.

Abstract: A case to hold a movable unit, which is provided with an optical module and a flexible circuit board having one end connected to the optical module, in a swingable manner that the optical module is swingable, is provided. The case includes: a holder, swingable together with the optical module to house the optical module; a fixing portion, provided at the holder to fix the flexible circuit board; and a pedestal, provided at the holder and having a placing face along which the flexible circuit board is disposed at a side opposite to a side of the one end with respect to an area fixed to the fixing portion in the flexible circuit board, and the pedestal is provided in a configuration in which a swing center of the optical module is positioned on an extended line of the placing face.

Abstract: An optical unit may include a gimbal mechanism having a gimbal frame part supporting a movable body through a support mechanism. The gimbal frame part may have a first support part extended part and a second support part extended part, and the support mechanism includes a first support part fixed to the fixed body and supporting the first support part extended part, and a second support part fixed to the movable body and supporting the second support part extended part. The first and the second support part extended parts are respectively supported by fitting a spherical projecting surface to a spherical recessed surface. The optical unit further includes a first and a second restriction mechanisms for restricting movement in the optical axis direction between the first and the second support part extended parts and the first and the second support parts.

Abstract: An optical unit including a reflection portion, a movable body, a fixed body; and a rotation support mechanism that rotates the movable body with respect to the fixed body in an axial direction as a rotation axis, in which the rotation support mechanism has a U-shaped spring member disposed between the fixed body and the movable body in the axial direction and applies a force in a direction that widens the space between the fixed body and the movable body, the spring member has a rotation-axis first forming member, the movable body has a rotation-axis second forming member, and the rotation-axis first forming member and the rotation-axis second forming member are arranged at positions where a rotation axis passes through a center of gravity position of the movable body.