US Patent Issued to MITSUMI ELECTRIC on May 20 for "Lens driving device, camera module, and camera-equipped device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,460, issued on May 20, was assigned to MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Lens driving device, camera module, and camera-equipped device" was invented by Masayoshi Sugawara (Tokyo) and Shun Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This lens driving device is provided with a movable part, a driving part, a magnet part having a first pole and a second pole, and a position detection part that is disposed to face the magnet part, and detects the position of the magnet part by detecting a magnetic field on a plane including an optical axis direction and a width direction. A boundary extends while bending such that the angle formed wi...