Abstract: In some embodiments, a camera includes an optical package, a camera actuator for moving the optical package, a camera cover, and an impact absorption member to prevent contact between the camera cover and the lens carrier. In some embodiments, the camera actuator includes a lens carrier moveably mounted to a camera cover.

Abstract: A camera module according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a first Printed Circuit Board (PCB) configured to have an image sensor mounted thereon; a housing unit disposed over the first PCB; a holder module spaced apart from a bottom surface within the housing unit at a specific interval and configured to have a first coil wound on its outer circumferential face and to include at least lens therein; a second PCB combined with the bottom surface of the holder module; a third PCB disposed over the holder module; and a plurality of wire springs each configured to have one end connected to the second PCB and the other end connected to the third PCB.

Abstract: An embodiment comprises: a housing; a bobbin, disposed in the housing, for mounting a lens; a first coil arranged on an outer circumferential surface of the bobbin; a magnet arranged in the housing; a second coil arranged in the housing; and a magnetic member, which is attached to the second coil and increases the strength of an induction voltage induced to the second coil by means of an interaction according to a movement of the first coil.

Abstract: Actuators for carrying and actuating a lens having a first optical axis, the lens receiving light folded from a second optical axis substantially perpendicular to the first optical axis, comprising first and second VCM engines coupled to the lens and first and second linear ball-guided rails operative to create movement of the lens in two substantially orthogonal directions upon actuation by respective VCM engines.

Abstract: A driving mechanism is provided, including a housing, a hollow frame, a holder, and a driving assembly. The frame is fixed to the housing and has a stop surface. The holder is movably disposed in the housing for holding the optical element. The driving assembly is disposed in the housing to drive the holder and the optical element moving along the optical axis of the optical element relative to the frame. Specifically, the stop surface is parallel to the optical axis to contact the holder and restrict the holder in a limit position.

Abstract: A modular camera apparatus with a discontinuous snap joint is provided for snap-fitting a lens ring to a camera module enclosed in a main case of the camera apparatus, thereby improving the manufacture and assembly efficiency.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including housing to support a driving magnet, a bobbin provided at an outer circumferential surface thereof with a coil located inside the driving magnet, the bobbin being moved in a first direction parallel to an optical axis within the housing via electromagnetic interaction between the driving magnet and the coil, a lower elastic member to connect a lower portion of the housing and a lower portion of the bobbin to each other, both ends of the coil being electrically connected to the lower elastic member, the lower elastic member having a first terminal electrically connected to an external power source so as to supply external power to the ends of the coil, and a printed circuit board provided at one side surface of the housing, the printed circuit board having a second terminal electrically connected to the external power source.

Abstract: Disclosed is a camera module. The camera module includes: a lens barrel disposed in a housing to receive a lens assembly; an elastic member in at least one of the housing and the lens barrel; a driving unit moving the lens barrel relative to the housing; and a sensor unit fixed to the housing.

Abstract: A lens actuating motor is provided. The motor includes a lens unit and an actuator unit including a bobbin configured to fix the lens unit, a coil unit configured to wind an outer side surface of the bobbin, a magnet unit disposed to face the coil unit, a yoke unit configured to fix the magnet unit, and a printed circuit board configured to apply an electrical power source, wherein the bobbin includes a body configured to hold the lens unit, at least two straight line parts formed on an outer side surface of the body, a curved part formed between the straight line parts, and a damping member coated on a side of the magnet unit facing the bobbin.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lens moving apparatus including a housing supporting driving magnets, a bobbin including a coil disposed on the outer surface thereof inside the driving magnets, and moving in a first direction parallel with an optical axis within the housing by electromagnetic interaction between the driving magnets and the coil, and a sensing unit sensing a movement of the bobbin in the first direction.

Abstract: A structure for a voice coil motor providing controllable lens tilt capability. The voice coil motor structure comprises a lens mount for fixedly mounting a lens (12), a focusing coil (6), a tilting coil (5, 7) and magnets (8-11), wherein the focusing coil (6) and the tilting coil (5, 7) are respectively and fixedly sleeved on the outer side of the lens mount (12). The magnets (8-11) are distributed around the focusing coil (6) and the tilting coil (5, 7) to allow the focusing coil (6) to interact with the magnets (8-11), so that the focusing coil (6) drives the lens mount (12) to move front and back to realize lens focusing. The tilting coil (5, 7) is interacted with the magnets (8-11) to allow the tilting coil (5, 7) to drive the lens mount (12) to tilt and realize lens shift. By virtue of the structure, the focusing and controllable tilting angle of the lens can be realized at the same time.

Abstract: Provided is a lens driving unit for an optical pickup and an optical disc drive that employs the lens driving unit. The lens driving unit includes a lens frame in which an object lens and a plurality of driving coils are installed, and a plurality of suspension wires connected to the driving coils. The lens frame also includes a plurality of winding posts disposed on opposing sides of the lens frame and extending in a direction in which the suspension wires extend. According to various examples, coil ends of the driving coils are wound around the winding posts to electrically connect the driving coils to the suspension wires.

Abstract: Provided are an objective lens driving device capable of strengthening the effective magnetic fluxes of the magnets while preventing increases in size and costs of the device; and an optical pickup apparatus including the same. The objective lens driving device of the invention includes an actuator frame for movably supporting an OBL holder. Four tracking coils are attached to sidewalls of the OBL holder, and four magnets are attached to the back yokes of the actuator frame to be opposed to the tracking coils, respectively. In addition, two of the tracking coils are placed tilting to one of the sidewalls of the OBL holder.

Abstract: A suspension system is provided for an objective lens housing. The objective lens housing is supported by the suspension system and is moved in either a tracking direction Y or focusing direction Z by an electro-magnetic actuator. The objective lens housing is supported by upper and lower suspension springs. The suspension springs are moveable in the tracking direction by flexing the suspension springs and are moveable in a focusing direction by compressing a front portion and a back portion to fold the suspension spring at bends formed in an intermediate portion of the suspension springs.

Abstract: Provided are an objective lens driving device capable of strengthening the effective magnetic fluxes of the magnets while preventing increases in size and costs of the device; and an optical pickup apparatus including the same. The objective lens driving device of the invention includes an actuator frame for movably supporting an OBL holder. Four tracking coils are attached to sidewalls of the OBL holder, and four magnets are attached to the back yokes of the actuator frame to be opposed to the tracking coils, respectively. In addition, two of the tracking coils are placed tilting to one of the sidewalls of the OBL holder.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided including a voice coil motor (VCM); a lens connected to the voice coil motor; and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) driver connected to the voice coil motor to at least partially control movement of the lens by the voice coil motor.

Abstract: An objective-lens driving device includes a fixed block fixed to a moving base, a movable block having a lens holder configured to hold objective lenses, support springs configured to connect the fixed block and the movable block to each other, a focusing magnetic circuit including a first focusing coil, a second focusing coil, a first focusing magnet, and a second focusing magnet, and a tracking magnetic circuit. The first focusing coil is attached to the lens holder such that a first thrust-generating portion and a second thrust-generating portion are spaced from each other in a tangential direction. The second focusing coil is attached to the lens holder such that an axial direction of the second focusing coil coincides with the tangential direction. The first focusing magnet and the second focusing magnet are arranged in the tangential direction with the movable block disposed therebetween.

Abstract: In an optical pick-up used in common with DVD/CD and BD, when the thickness is intended to be reduced by mounting a total reflection mirror, a cavity for passing through a laser light is necessary and, since this decreases the degree of freedom for arranging tracking coils and magnets and secondary resonance caused by a magnetic thrust in the tracking direction tends to be generated, an improvement therefor is necessary. In a lens coil holder of the optical pick-up having an objective lens and tracking coil mounted thereon each of the coils is arranged such that the thrust relative to the vertical center of the suspension wires that support the lens coil holder is well balanced. For example, most of the portion of the tracking coils is situated at one height relative to the suspension wire and the tilt coil is situated at the other remaining height.

Abstract: An optical pickup includes a moving base moved in a radial direction of a disk-like recording medium mounted on a disk table, and an objective lens drive device disposed on the base and including an objective lens. The drive device includes a fixed block fixed to the base, a movable block including the lens and a lens holder and moved in focusing and tracking directions, supporting springs connecting the fixed and movable blocks, focusing magnets moving the movable block in the focusing direction, tracking magnets moving the movable block in the tracking direction and each having two magnetized poles, focusing coils facing the focusing magnets, and tracking coils facing the tracking magnets and spaced apart in the tracking direction. The north and south poles of the tracking magnet are adjacent in the tracking direction. The boundary between the poles is formed by a line segment not being one straight line.

Abstract: To increase the speed of operations and improve vibration properties by rotating holders to wind coils in objective lens driving means of an optical pickup. In an optical pickup wherein a tracking coil and two focusing coils are wound on the same surface of a coil holder, the coil holder includes a tracking coil holder and two focusing coil holders, and each of the tracking coil holder and two focusing coil holders has a hole passing through the center of each coil.

Abstract: An actuator comprises a connection section having one end rotatably connected to a connection point (C1) of a fixed section and the other end rotatably connected to a connection point (C2) of a moving section, a connection section having one end rotatably connected to a connection point (C3) of the fixed section and the other end rotatably connected to a connection point (C4) of the moving sections a comb-teeth electrode having the root section connected to a comb-teeth base point (B1) and the fore-end section extending along the turning path, and a comb-teeth electrode having the root section connected to the fixed section and the other section extending along the curve of the comb-teeth electrode and opposed to the comb-teeth electrode with a predetermined gap.

Abstract: An optical pickup actuator independently drivable in focusing, tilting and tracking directions. The optical pickup includes a lens holder movably installed on a base, and mounted with an objective lens for transmitting an incident light to an optical information recording medium; and a magnetic circuit to independently driving the lens holder in the focusing, tilting and tracking directions. The magnetic circuit includes opposing magnets; a focusing coil and tilting coils interposed between the magnets, mounted inside the lens holder, and wound around respective axes parallel to the focusing direction; and a plurality of tracking coils mounted outside the lens holder, interposed between the magnets and wound around respective axes transverse to the focusing direction. The magnetic fields of the magnets are guided by outer yokes partially encompassing the magnets and inner yokes positioned within the focusing coil and the tilting coils.

Abstract: An optical pickup apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information onto/or from information recording surface, the optical pickup apparatus comprises a laser light source, an objective lens for converging light beams from the laser light source onto the information recording surface through a protective layer of an optical information recording medium, an optical device for changing a divergence angle of incident light beams by moving in an optical axis direction, the optical device being arranged between the laser light source and the objective lens, a light receiving device for receiving light beams reflected by the information recording surface and passed through the objective lens, and a driving device capable of moving the optical device in a direction crossing the optical axis.

Abstract: An optical pickup has an objective lens drive device which includes a fixed block fixed to a movement base, a movable block having an objective lens and a lens holder that holds the objective lens, a plurality of support springs that couples the fixed block with the movable block, and a focusing magnetic coil that operates the movable block in a focusing direction. A distance between the fixed block and a recording surface of a disk recording medium is larger than a distance between the movable block and the recording surface. The support springs are inclined with respect to the recording surface. The support springs have a longitudinal direction orthogonal to a direction of a thrust generated at the focusing magnetic circuit to the movable block during a focusing operation.

Abstract: An optical disk device of the present application includes: a turntable 30 including plural induction grooves 31a to 31h as concave portions radially extending from vicinity of a center of the turntable 30 and having open portions in an outer periphery of the turntable 30 and plural through-holes 32a to 32h penetrating bottom faces 33a to 33h on the vicinity of the center side of the plural induction grooves 31a to 31h and a top face of the turntable 30; and an outer rotor type spindle motor 35 provided with plural fins 36a to 36h as convex portions on a rotor on a side face thereof. The optical disk device of the present application utilizes an airflow generated by rotation of the rotor of the spindle motor 35 and the turntable 30 in conjunction therewith as a dust removing wind for removing dust attaching to an objective lens side area.

Abstract: A lens drive apparatus for use in an optical pick-up apparatus, in which a bending mirror reflects an incident light flux from a light source and an objective lens converges the reflected light flux onto an optical disc through an objective lens, the lens drive apparatus includes: a base; a holder which holds the objective lens, being capable of moving with respect to the base; a pair of coils provided to interpose the objective lens held by the holder; and a pair of magnets attached to the base to face the pair of coils, respectively. The holder includes at least one surface which faces the incident light flux from the light source, among surfaces opposing to the pair of magnets, is shifted inwardly with respect to a surface of the holder that is close to the objective lens.

Abstract: An optical pickup device includes an objective lens (1) for focusing a light flux onto an information layer of a disk-shaped medium, an objective lens driving unit that drives the objective lens (1) in a focus servo direction and in a tracking servo direction, a correction lens (14) disposed on the same optical axis as the objective lens (1), and a correction lens driving unit that drives the correction lens (14) in the same direction as the focus servo direction to control the condition of the light flux incident on the objective lens.

Abstract: An optical recording/reproducing apparatus, medium, and method and a controlling apparatus, medium, and method thereof. The recording/reproducing apparatus includes an optical pickup actuator including a holder formed on a base, a blade connected to the holder with a plurality of elastic supporters, a pair of focus coils for operating the blade in a focus direction, track coils for operating the blade in a tracking direction, magnets, a memory for storing a lookup table for the height of the blade according to electric current, a lookup table for the tilt of the blade according to the electric current supplied to the focus coils, a lookup table for the actual tilt of an optical disk according to the height of the blade, and a controller for computing a tilt difference between the optical disk and the blade and controlling the electric currents supplied to the focus coils to compensate for the tilt difference.

Abstract: A lens driving device according to the present invention includes a mounting base; a collimation lens that is engaged with the mounting base and movable in optical axis directions; and a driving source that moves the collimation lens in the optical axis directions, and the mounting base includes a fulcrum section with which, when the driving device is mounted on a base, a pitch angle and a roll angle of the driving device are adjusted with respect to the base and the optical axis.

Abstract: An optical pickup has a lens that is resiliently supported in such a manner as to be displaceable in different directions by pairs of a first wire, a second wire, and a third wire which are attached to a fixing portion by attaching means. The optical pickup includes a lens holder for holding the lens, and a printed circuit board secured to the lens holder. The first, second, and third wires have the same length and are formed of the same material, and are soldered to the printed circuit board at different distances from the attaching means.

Abstract: An optical actuator is disclosed. The optical actuator includes a seat bearing the optical element, a yoke comprising an end, a suspension system comprising at least one spring sheet connecting the seat and the end, and a driving device moving the seat relative to the yoke. The spring sheet constrains the movement of the seat. The spring sheet includes an inner connecting portion connected to the seat, an outer connecting portion surrounding the inner connecting portion and connected to the end, and a spring structure disposed between the inner and outer connecting portions and connecting the inner and outer connecting portions.

Abstract: Provided is an actuator for a mobile device including a holder having a coil wound along inner side surfaces thereof; a driving unit that is inserted into the holder such that four side surfaces of the driving unit are spaced at a predetermined distance from side walls of the holder, the driving unit having magnets coupled to the respective side surfaces thereof; a pair of suspension wires that are mounted symmetrically with each other on the upper portion of the driving unit such that an arbitrary portion of each suspension wire is bent and directed toward a corner of the driving unit; and a pair of support plates that are coupled to both lower sides of the driving unit such that elastic forces are generated in opposite directions to each other.

Abstract: An optical pickup actuator having a printed circuit board and wire fixers for fixing one end of each of a the suspension. The optical pickup actuator includes coil connectors for connection with coils connectable to an external power source. The optical pickup actuator includes a blade having stoppers that are positioned to project from the blade between the wire fixers and the coil connectors so as to stop movement of the suspension wires during installation. The optical pickup actuator has an advantage in that a short circuit problem due to contact between the suspension wire and the coils is decreased, and, therefore, the optical pickup actuator facilitates mass-production.

Abstract: An objective lens unit, includes: an objective lens for irradiating and converging laser light on an optical disc as an a light information recording medium; and a lens frame for retaining the objective lens, wherein the lens frame is structured so that at least a portion closer to a rotation center of the optical disc is offset to an inner side of the lens frame with regards to a virtual edge section closer to the rotation center of the optical disc, wherein the virtual edge section is in a nodal line of a virtual plane that includes an end face which is closest to the optical disc in the lens frame and the objective lens, and that is perpendicular to an optical axis and a virtual rotation curved surface that is obtained when a virtual straight line passing a portion which is farthest from the optical axis in the lens frame and the objective lens, in parallel with the optical axis, is rotated around the optical axis as a center axis.

Abstract: An objective lens holder for use in an objective lens driving device of a symmetry type has an upper member and a lower member assembled with the lower member. The lower member has a pair of main bobbin portions for winding two tilting coils and two focusing coils. The pair of main bobbin portion is symmetrically disposed with respect to an optical axis of a laser beam. The upper member and the lower member have openings for passing through the laser beam. Each of the upper member and the lower member has four hook portions for winding four tracking coils.

Abstract: An optical head device includes a lens holder, a wire support body which supports the lens holder through a plurality of wires, and a plate-like member on which the wire support body is mounted. The plate-like member includes a bottom plate part on which the wire support body is mounted and a rising part raised from the bottom plate part so as to face with a gap to a side face of the wire support body. The wire support body is subjected to surface bonding to the rising part with a first adhesive which is disposed within the gap and mounted on the plate-like member.

Abstract: A recording/reproducing apparatus and an optical pickup actuator, and corresponding methods, for driving a bobbin in a focusing direction, a tracking direction or a tilting direction by use of a magnetic driving unit movably supported by a support member, where an object lens is mounted on the bobbin and a plurality of slits are formed on side walls of the bobbin. According to embodiments of the present invention, a secondary resonant frequency and a value of a secondary resonant peak are increased, thereby improving a gain margin.

Abstract: A lens actuator includes a carrier having a tubular shape having a through-hole provided therein. The through-hole is arranged to mount a lens therein. The lens actuator further includes plural springs contacting upper and lower surfaces of the carrier, a coil fixed to the carrier, a first yoke, a second yoke, and a magnet contacting the first yoke and the second yoke. The coil is placed between the first yoke and the second yoke. This lens actuator moves the lens by a long distance, and has a small size.

Abstract: In order to obtain a preferred recording/reproducing characteristic in an apparatus for optical disks having higher density, an objective lens drive is provided for driving an objective lens (1) in the optical axis direction, a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and a tilting direction along the radius of an optical disk, by which operating sensitivity is improved and a stable operating characteristic is realized. Sections of two (7b, 7e) of six fixing portions (7a to 7f) for supporting six support members (6a to 6f) which support a movable part (5), are set lower in stiffness than another sections of the other four fixing portions (7a, 7c, 7d, 7f), thereby improving the operating sensitivity of the movable part (5) and stabilizing the operation of the movable part (5).

Abstract: Provided is an optical pickup actuator for writing/reading data in/from an optical storage medium. The optical pickup actuator includes a heat sink member or a heat conductive material for minimizing a bad influence of heat generated from a coil.

Abstract: Wires are inserted through a layer of a damper material filling a space provided in a fixed side support member. The space is formed by a groove shaped cavity, while the front part of the groove shaped cavity is provided with an opening surrounded by a groove shaped surface and a columnar section. The damper material filling the space contacts closely with the groove shaped surface and the columnar section within an opening.

Abstract: A lens holder is provided with a focusing coil for urging the lens holder in a focusing direction and tracking coils for urging the lens holder in a tracking direction in cooperation with magnets. A magnet is disposed in a space where the focusing coil and the tracking coil are opposed to each other in a through hole of the lens holder, such that a magnetized surface on one surface side of the magnet is opposed to the focusing coil and a magnetized surface on the other surface side thereof is opposed to the tracking coil.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic circuit operable in multiple axes in an optical pick-up actuator. The optical pick-up actuator includes: a lens holder for receiving and moving an object lens in a predetermined direction; a magnetic circuit having; a plurality of coils series and parallel connected and attached to both sides of the lens holder; a yoke and a magnet faced with the coils, for generating and inducing different polarities in perpendicular directions. With such construction, the actuator moves the lens holder to tracking, focusing, tilting directions under control of a direction and intensity of a current by the magnetic circuit.

Abstract: The objective-lens driving apparatus is provided with a yoke base, a lens holder provided on the yoke base, the objective lens provided to the center of the upper part of the lens holder, permanent magnets provided to both sides of the lens holder in the tangential direction, wires laid on both sides of the lens holder in the tracking direction, a wire base made of resin and provided in the area near the permanent magnet when viewed from the lens holder, and a yoke cover made of resin. The upper surface of the yoke cover is higher than the upper surfaces of the permanent magnet and the raised part of the yoke base. Wire base also has wire cover parts extending in the tangential direction for partially covering the wires. The wire cover parts have a tapered shape that grows thinner approaching the other ends of the wires.

Abstract: In an objective lens driving apparatus which includes a lens holder (22) provided with a plurality of coils (23, 24) and swingably supported by a suspension wire (28), and a magnet (27) for supplying a driving force to the lens holder by an electromagnetic action produced between the magnet and the coils, the center (Mc) of the magnet in a height direction is located above the center (Dc) of driving of the lens holder.

Abstract: A lens module using electromagnetic force to drive the focus-adjusting lens is disclosed. The lens module includes a base, two steel plates, four springs, a bottom plate, a lens holder, a coil, a lens, a top plate, two magnets, a magnet housing and a top cover. The lens holder, the coil and the top plate are disposed outside the circumference of the lens to form a linked body and the coil is clipped between the lens holder and the top plate so as to reduce diameter and volume of the coil. By the two arc magnets disposed on right and left sides of the coil instead of general circular magnets, volume of the magnets is reduced. By the four springs vertically hooked between four corners of two steel plates respectively and four corresponding brackets of the lens holder, the lens is provided with axial traction for focus adjustment. Therefore, the lens with smaller volume moves steadily to adjust the focus.

Abstract: An optical pick-up device having cheap and simple structure capable of precisely positioning members assembled upon an actuator base makes use of respective flush screw members for a magnet holder and for a printed-circuit board eccentrically positioned between an actuator base and a magnet holder, together with between the printed-circuit board and the support member. The flush screw member is inserted through the holder hole, firmly secured into the screw hole, and thereby prevents the pick-up device from being loosened, because of being provided with a predetermined eccentric distance between center axles of the screw hole and the holder hole. Likewise, a triangle-shape opening of the printed-circuit board is adapted to receive the board flush screw, so that a slant tapered surface of a board flush head of the board flush screw acts as an eccentrically fastener for fixture and positioning of the support member and the printed-circuit board.

Abstract: An autofocus actuator is provided with a yoke 320 that comprises an inner cylindrical portion 321 defining an insertion bore 35 through which a hollow body portion of a holder is adapted to be received and an outer cylindrical portion 322 provided outside of the inner cylindrical portion with a predetermined spacing left between the inner cylindrical portion and the outer cylindrical portion by a connecting portion 324. Four tab-shaped portions 325 are integrally formed with an end surface of the outer cylindrical portion 322 of the yoke in such a manner that the tab-shaped portions remain flush with the end surface of the outer cylindrical portion and extend outwardly from the outer cylindrical portion. The tab-shaped portions 325 are so formed as to leave a concave portion 327 between the adjacent tab-shaped portions. This assures that the tab-shaped portion 325 can make contact with a leaf spring in a broader area, thus enabling the leaf spring to be reliably bonded to the yoke 320.

Abstract: An optical pickup device of a micro optical disc drive comprises: a tracking actuator hinge-coupled to a deck rotatably in a tracking direction; a tracking arm coupled to the tracking actuator; a focusing arm connected to the tracking arm rotatably in a focusing direction; a connection member for connecting the tracking arm and the focusing arm so as to rotate the focusing arm; and a focusing actuator having a coil and a magnet at oppositely corresponding positions of the tracking arm and the focusing arm, for driving the focusing arm in a focusing direction.

Abstract: An autofocus actuator 1 is provided with a yoke 300 that comprises an inner cylindrical portion 301 defining an insertion bore through which a hollow body portion of a holder is adapted to be received and an outer cylindrical portion 302 provided outside of the inner cylindrical portion 301 with a predetermined spacing left between the inner cylindrical portion 301 and the outer cylindrical portion 302 by a connecting portion, and the yoke 300 is constructed so as to receive a coil 20 in the space of a predetermined gap. The outer cylindrical portion 302 is formed into a generally polygonal cylindrical shape and inner surfaces of the outer cylindrical portion 302 define a plurality of magnet mounting surfaces each having a planar shape. A generally flat plate shape permanent magnet 41 is mounted on each of these magnet mounting surfaces 303.