US Patent Issued to MITSUMI ELECTRIC on Jan. 13 for "Optical-element driving device, camera module, and camera-mounted device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,503, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical-element driving device, camera module, and camera-mounted device" was invented by Yukihiro Takimoto (Tokyo) and Masahiko Aranai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical-element driving device that moves a movable part capable of holding an optical element, with respect to a fixing part in an optical-axis direction, the optical-element driving device including: a rotation restricting part that restricts rotation of the movable part in a circumferential direction by contacting recessed and protruding parts with each other, the recessed and protr...