US Patent Issued to New Shicoh Motor on June 17 for "Lens driving device, camera device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,544, issued on June 17, was assigned to New Shicoh Motor Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens driving device includes: a fixed portion; a movable portion including a lens carrier that holds a lens body; a middle portion provided between the fixed portion and the movable portion; a first elastic support member movably supporting a front portion of the middle portion with respect to the fixed portion in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens body; and a sec...