US Patent Issued to MITSUMI ELECTRIC on Nov. 18 for "Optical element driving apparatus, camera module and camera-equipped apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,224, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical element driving apparatus, camera module and camera-equipped apparatus" 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 apparatus includes: a coil and a magnet separately disposed at a movable part configured to hold an optical element and a fixing part configured to support the movable part, the coil and the magnet being configured to operate in conjunction with each other to move the movable part with respect to the fixing part; and a magnetic sensor configured to detect ...