ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,278, issued on April 1, was assigned to LARGAN PRECISION Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).
"Lens driving apparatus" was invented by Chun-Yi Lu (Taichung, Taiwan), Te-Sheng Tseng (Taichung, Taiwan) and Wen-Hung Hsu (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens driving apparatus includes a holder, a cover, a carrier, a first magnet, a coil, a spring, two second magnets and a hall sensor. The holder includes an opening hole. The cover is made of metal material and coupled to the holder. The carrier is movably disposed in the cover, and for coupling to a lens. The first magnet is connected to an inner side of the cover. The coil is ...