US Patent Issued to Mitsumi Electric on Nov. 25 for "Optical element drive device including a coil part in at least a portion being extendable and contractible in accordance with movement of a movable part, camera module, and camera mounting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,203, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Mitsumi Electric Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Optical element drive device including a coil part in at least a portion being extendable and contractible in accordance with movement of a movable part, camera module, and camera mounting device" was invented by Tomohiko Osaka (Tokyo) and Shun Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This optical element drive device comprises: a movable part; a drive unit; a substrate part that can supply power to the movable part; and a power supply path unit that constitutes a power supply path between the substrate part and the movable part by extending so as to conn...