US Patent Issued to New Shicoh Motor on Feb. 10 for "Lens driving device, camera device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,013, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to New Shicoh Motor Co. LTD (Zhejiang, China).

"Lens driving device, camera device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kei Onodera (Yamato, Japan) and Kazuhiko Naito (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens driving device includes a lens holding portion, a driving shaft, a vibration member, and a straight-ahead cam mechanism. The lens holding portion has a holding portion for holding a lens body and is movable in an optical axis direction of the lens body. The driving shaft extends and is supported in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction. The vibration member is c...