US Patent Issued to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE on July 29 for "Aperture device, camera module with aperture device, and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,851, issued on July 29, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Aperture device, camera module with aperture device, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Masaru Uno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aperture device for setting an amount of light incident on a lens of a camera module is provided. The aperture device includes: a diaphragm plate exhibiting a plate shape and formed with an aperture opening penetrating the diaphragm plate in a plate surface direction; and a configuration-changing mechanism for changing a configuration of the diaphragm plate to an aperture position or a retracted pos...