Abstract: An optical unit may include a movable body including an optical module, a fixed body which holds the movable body in a movable state, a gimbal mechanism including a first support part which swingably supports the movable body around a first axial line intersecting an optical axis direction of the optical module, and a second support part which is swingably supported by a member of the fixed body around a second axial line intersecting the optical axis direction and a direction of the first axial line, and a shake correction drive mechanism structured to drive the movable body around the first axial line and around the second axial line.

Abstract: An optical unit is provided for performing heat dissipation for an optical module. The optical unit includes a movable body having the optical module and a fixed body which holds the movable body in a displaceable state. The movable body includes a circuit board provided in the optical module and at least one heat radiation member disposed in a periphery of the optical module. The heat radiation member is connected with the circuit board in a heat-conductive manner.

Abstract: A coil unit may include coil holding member configured to hold a coil; and a coil held by the coil holding member and formed by a conducting wire in a wound state. A direction perpendicular to a length direction of the conducting wire is a thickness direction of the coil. The coil holding member may include an abutment surface configured to abut against one end surface in the thickness direction of the coil, a convex unit protruding from the abutment surface and around which the conducting wire is wound, and a coil pressing unit extending from a front end surface of the convex unit and configured to press the other end surface in the thickness direction of the coil.

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 may include a movable member configured to hold an optical module; a rotation supporting mechanism to support the movable member such that the movable member rotates on an optical axis; a fixing member to support the movable member; a rolling magnetic driving mechanism to rotate the movable member on the optical axis; and an optical module flexible printed circuit board. The movable member may include a holder configured to rotate on the optical axis while holding the optical module. The holder may include a fixing part to which the optical module flexible printed circuit board is fixed. The optical module flexible printed circuit board may include a connector inserting part connected to the fixing member or to a supporting member; and a flexed part formed between the connector inserting part and a portion fixed to the fixing part.

Abstract: An optical unit with shake correction function may have a movable member configured hold an optical element; a holder configured to support the movable member on an inner circumferential side via a swingable supporting mechanism; a first rotation supporting mechanism configured to rotatably support the holder at a periphery of an axis; and a fixing member configured to support the holder via the first rotation supporting mechanism. The fixing member may include a fixing member side opposing part that opposes to the holder in a Z axis direction (direction of the axis), and the holder may include a holder side opposing part that opposes to the fixing member side opposing part in the Z axis direction. The first rotation supporting mechanism may include a plurality of balls between the fixing member side opposing part and the holder side opposing par.

Abstract: To draw a flexible printed circuit board in a small space with high flexibility in an optical unit with shake correction function. In an optical unit with rolling correction function, a first flexible printed circuit board for an imaging element is drawn around an optical axis of the optical unit with rolling correction function such that the first flexible printed circuit board is wound by substantially a turn in a circumferential direction at an identical height in an optical axis direction. Furthermore, in a portion wound in the circumferential direction (i.e., a connection part), one end and the other end in the circumferential direction are at an identical height in the optical axis direction. Furthermore, a second flexible printed circuit board for a rolling magnetic driving mechanism and a third flexible printed circuit board for a swing magnetic driving mechanism are also drawn in a similar manner.

Abstract: An optical unit with shake correction function capable of reducing a weight of a rotation member to be rotated in rolling correction. An optical unit with shake correction function includes: a movable member; a swing supporting mechanism supporting the movable member such that the movable member is able to swing; and a fixation member supporting the movable member via the swing supporting mechanism. The movable member includes: an imaging module; a rotation seat supporting the imaging module; a rotation supporting mechanism supporting the rotation seat such that the rotation seat is able to rotate on an optical axis of the imaging module; a supporting member supporting the rotation seat via the rotation supporting mechanism; and a rolling magnetic driving mechanism causing the rotation seat to rotate. The imaging module and the rotation seat configure the rotation member to be rotated by the rolling magnetic driving mechanism.

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: The disclosure reduces the size of an optical unit with a shake correction function provided with a filter switching function and reduces the power consumption. An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a fixed body; a movable body having an optical element; an oscillation support mechanism configured to oscillatably support the movable body with respect to the fixed body; and a shake correction drive mechanism configured to oscillate the movable body, such that the movable body includes a filter and a filter switching mechanism configured to switch the presence or absence of the filter, and the oscillation support mechanism is arranged at a position overlapping the shake correction drive mechanism when seen from a direction perpendicular to a direction of an optical axis of the optical element, and the filter and the filter switching mechanism are arranged at a subject side of the optical element.

Abstract: An optical unit with a shake correction function may include a movable body on which an optical module is mounted, a fixed body which supports the movable body, and a flexible printed circuit board connected with the movable body. The flexible printed circuit board comprises a fixed part fixed to the movable body and the fixed part is structured by fixing a reinforcing plate to the flexible circuit board. The fixed part comprises two engaging parts to which two protruded parts formed in the movable body are fitted and a hooked part formed of an end part of the reinforcing plate. The hooked part is protruded to an outer side in a width direction of the flexible circuit board. The movable body comprises the two protruded parts which are fitted to the two engaging parts and a first hook part which holds the hooked part.

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: To provide a rolling magnetic driving unit that can be employed for both of an optical unit with shake correction function that causes an optical module to swing and rotate and an optical unit with shake correction function that causes the optical module to rotate, a second unit (i.e., a rolling magnetic driving unit) includes: a rotation seat; and a fixation member that supports the rotation seat via a bearing mechanism. The rotation seat and the bearing mechanism configure a rotation-supporting mechanism. The rotation-supporting mechanism supports a holder, which supports the optical module such that the optical module is able to swing, such the holder is able to rotate on the axis. Furthermore, the second unit includes a rolling magnetic driving mechanism, which includes a rolling driving coil that is held by the rotation seat and a rolling driving magnet that is held by the fixation member.

Abstract: In an optical unit with shake correction function, a first stopper mechanism configured to define a swinging range of a movable member is composed of: a first projection part for stopper and a second projection part for stopper, both of which are provided in a camera module; and a projection portion (abutment target) of a holder bottom plate member. Therefore, when the first projection part for stopper and the second projection part for stopper; and the projection portion of the holder bottom plate member abut against each other and then movement in the Z axis direction of the movable member is restricted, the camera module does not move in the Z axis direction any more. Accordingly, the camera module does not slip off from a camera module holder of the movable member.

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 includes a movable body including an optical module, a fixed body configured to displaceable hold the movable body, and a support mechanism including a gimbal frame configured to rotatably support the movable body with respect to the fixed body around a first axial line intersecting with an optical axis direction of the optical module. The support mechanism rotatably supports the movable body, to the fixed body via a first support unit, around the first axial line. The first support unit includes a first rod-like support member fixed to one of the fixed body and the gimbal frame, and a first contact unit being provided in the other of the fixed body and the gimbal frame and contacting the first rod-like support member. The first rod-like support member includes a first leading end, the first leading end contacting and being elastically pressed against the first contact unit.

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 include a movable body having an optical module and a holder surrounding the optical module, a swing support mechanism swingably supporting the movable body, a fixed body, and a shake correction drive mechanism. The optical module has a protruded part, and the holder has a position restriction part with which the protruded part is abutted. The fixed body includes a case accommodating the holder, and the case includes an outer frame part surrounding the holder and a projecting part projecting to an inner peripheral side from an end part on an image side of the outer frame part. The projecting part has a stopper part overlapping with the holder, and the protruded part and the position restriction part are located on an inner peripheral side with respect to the projecting part when viewed in the optical axis direction.

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 with a shake correction function may include a movable body having an optical element, a turnable support mechanism structured to turnably support the movable body around an optical axis of the optical element, a fixed body supporting the movable body through the turnable support mechanism, a magnetic rolling drive mechanism structured to turn the movable body, and an angular position return mechanism structured to return the movable body to a reference angular position around the optical axis. The magnetic rolling drive mechanism may include a coil and a magnet facing the coil. The magnet is polarized and magnetized in a circumferential direction. The angular position return mechanism includes a magnetic member attached to the movable body and, when the movable body is located at the reference angular position, an imaginary plane which includes a magnetizing polarized line of the magnet passes a center of the magnetic member.