CN112653826A

CN112653826A - Camera module and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN112653826A
Application number: CN202011546518.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘柠林; 彭克勤
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-24
Filing date: 2020-12-24
Publication date: 2021-04-13
Anticipated expiration: 2040-12-24
Also published as: WO2022135324A1; CN112653826B

Abstract

The application discloses camera module and electronic equipment, camera module include camera, camera dress circle (200) and camera lens (400), camera module includes the antenna module, the antenna module includes antenna coil (310), camera dress circle (200) with the camera sets up relatively, camera lens (400) set up on camera dress circle (200), antenna coil (310) set up in on camera dress circle (200). The scheme can solve the problem that the whole electronic equipment is large in thickness.

Description

Camera module and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of communication equipment, in particular to a camera module and electronic equipment.

Background

With the development of communication technology, data interaction modes between users and electronic equipment are more diversified, wherein the antenna assembly enables the electronic equipment to complete data interaction more humanly. The antenna assembly becomes an essential component of the electronic equipment, and how to arrange the antenna assembly has important influence on the electronic equipment.

At present, an antenna assembly becomes an essential component of electronic equipment, and in the present electronic equipment, the antenna assembly is located between a battery cover and a main board support, and the antenna assembly is closer to a main board, and because the thickness of the antenna assembly is usually about 0.2mm, when the antenna assembly is stacked together with a PCB board, a main board upper cover and a touch screen, the thickness of the whole electronic equipment is finally larger, and the layout of other electronic devices on the main board is also influenced. Moreover, the antenna assembly can easily separate the internal space of the electronic device into smaller spaces, which leads to a lower utilization of the internal space.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention discloses a camera module and electronic equipment, and aims to solve the problem that the overall thickness of the electronic equipment is large.

In order to solve the problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

in a first aspect, the application discloses a camera module, decorate circle and camera lens including camera, the module of making a video recording includes the antenna module, the antenna module includes antenna coil, the camera decorate the circle with the camera sets up relatively, the camera lens sets up on the camera decorates the circle, antenna coil set up in on the camera decorates the circle.

In a second aspect, the application discloses an electronic device, including equipment casing and the above module of making a video recording, the camera set up in within the equipment casing, the mounting hole has been seted up to the equipment casing, the circle is decorated to the camera install in the mounting hole.

The technical scheme adopted by the invention can achieve the following beneficial effects:

the camera module that this application embodiment discloses improves through the structure to the camera module in the correlation technique, decorate circle with antenna coil setting on the camera, it is concrete, antenna coil can set up outside the camera decorates the circle or set up within the camera decorates the circle, make the distance between antenna coil and the camera decorates the circle reduce, and then can reduce camera module thickness in camera shooting direction, make electronic equipment's thickness more frivolous, it is visible, the great problem of electronic equipment complete machine thickness can be solved to the camera module that this application embodiment discloses.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic partial structural diagram of an electronic device disclosed in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is an exploded view of a part of the structure of a first electronic device disclosed in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an antenna assembly;

fig. 4 and fig. 5 are schematic structural diagrams of a partial structure of a first electronic device disclosed in an embodiment of the present application at different viewing angles, respectively;

fig. 6 is an exploded view of a part of the structure of a second electronic device disclosed in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is an assembly diagram of a camera bezel and an antenna coil in a second electronic device disclosed in the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the structure of FIG. 7 from another perspective;

fig. 9 is an exploded view of a part of the structure of a third electronic device disclosed in the embodiments of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of an antenna assembly of a third electronic device disclosed in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is an exploded view of a part of a fourth electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 12 is an assembly diagram of a camera bezel and an antenna coil of a fourth electronic device disclosed in the embodiment of the present application.

Description of reference numerals:

100-equipment shell,

200-camera head decorative ring, 200 a-positioning bulge, 210-light-supplementing avoiding hole, 220-first layer decorative ring,

230-a second layer of decorative ring,

300-NFC antenna, 310-antenna coil, 320-NFC ferrite, 321-glue hole, 330-antenna

Contacts, 340-flexible electrical connectors,

400-camera lens.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

The technical solutions disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in fig. 1 to 12, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a camera module applied to an electronic device, and the disclosed camera module may include a camera, a camera bezel 200, and a camera lens 400.

The camera is the shooting device of electronic equipment, sets up in electronic equipment, and circle 200 is decorated to the camera sets up with the camera relatively for decorate the camera, camera lens 400 sets up on circle 200 is decorated to the camera. Specifically, camera lens 400 sets up on the antenna module on camera dress circle 200, can fix on the antenna module through fixed modes such as double faced adhesive tape or point, and camera lens 400 can play protection and non-light tight effect to guarantee in light in electronic equipment's the external environment can see through camera lens 400 and enter into electronic equipment, also can prevent that the dust in the external environment from dropping on the camera simultaneously, influence the shooting definition of camera.

In the embodiment of the present application, the camera module includes an antenna assembly, the antenna assembly includes an antenna coil 310, and the antenna coil 310 is configured to convert external radio waves into a high-frequency current to be transmitted to an input terminal of the electronic device, or transmit the high-frequency current of the electronic device to a transmitting antenna to be radiated, so as to implement data interaction between the electronic device and other terminal devices.

Circle 200 sets up with the camera relatively is decorated to the camera, and is concrete, can utilize the camera to decorate the space and the thickness of circle 200 self convex closure, sets up antenna coil 310 on circle 200 is decorated to the camera to realize that antenna coil 310 sets up on the basis of circle 200 is decorated to the camera. Specifically, the antenna coil 310 may be disposed outside the camera bezel 200 or inside the camera bezel 200, so as to facilitate a more compact structure, reduce the problem of a larger thickness caused by separately disposing the antenna assembly, and further reduce the thickness of the camera module in the shooting direction of the camera, so that the electronic device is more light and thin, thereby solving the problem of a larger thickness of the whole electronic device.

The camera module that this application embodiment discloses improves through the structure to the camera module in the correlation technique, set up antenna coil 310 on camera dress circle 200, it is concrete, antenna coil 310 can set up outside camera dress circle 200 or set up within camera dress circle 200, make the distance between antenna coil 310 and the camera dress circle 200 reduce, and then can reduce camera module thickness in camera shooting direction, make electronic equipment's thickness lighter and thinner, it is visible, the great problem of electronic equipment complete machine thickness can be solved to the camera module that this application embodiment discloses.

Meanwhile, the antenna coil 310 is arranged on the camera decorating ring 200, so that the whole antenna assembly can be closer to the camera decorating ring 200, the space near the mainboard can be more concentrated, the layout of other electronic devices on the mainboard is avoided, and the utilization rate of the internal space of the electronic equipment is improved.

In addition, the camera trim ring 200 is usually at least partially located outside the electronic device, and the antenna coil 310 is disposed on the camera trim ring 200, so that the antenna coil 310 can be more easily close to the outside of the electronic device, and the occupation of the antenna assembly on the internal space of the electronic device is reduced. Moreover, in an optional scheme, the antenna coil 310 can be exposed outside the electronic device along with the camera trim bezel 200, so that space inside the electronic device in the thickness direction is prevented from being utilized, and further thinning of the electronic device is facilitated.

Further, circle 200 is decorated to the camera has the light transmission region, and this light transmission region can supply in the light of external environment enters into electronic equipment, and then is sensitized by the camera, realizes shooting function.

In a further technical solution, the antenna assembly may be an NFC (Near field Communication) antenna 300, and the NFC antenna 300 may include an antenna coil 310 and an NFC ferrite 320, where the NFC ferrite 320 is fixedly connected to the antenna coil 310, and both the NFC ferrite 320 and the antenna coil 310 are fixed to the camera bezel 200, that is, the NFC ferrite 320 and the antenna coil 310 may be fixed to an outer surface of the camera bezel 200, where the outer surface is exposed outside the electronic device, in this case, more component parts of the NFC antenna 300 may be disposed at a convex hull (where the convex hull is exposed outside the electronic device) of the camera bezel 200 itself, so as to further facilitate avoiding occupation of other internal spaces of the electronic device, and further reduce the thickness of other areas of the electronic device except for the camera bezel 200.

Optionally, the camera lens 400, the NFC antenna 300 and the camera bezel 200 may be sequentially arranged, and this sequentially arranged assembly method has the advantages of being simple in assembly and convenient to assemble. Meanwhile, in this kind of assembly structure, NFC antenna 300 is located between camera lens 400 and camera bezel 200, is favorable to protecting NFC antenna 300.

The antenna assembly needs to be electrically connected with a power supply device inside the electronic device, for this reason, the antenna coil 310 is electrically connected with the antenna contact 330, an antenna spring is arranged in the electronic device, the antenna contact 330 is used for electrically contacting with the antenna spring of the electronic device, specifically, the antenna contact 330 is located on the inner side surface of the camera decorative ring 200, the antenna coil 310 is located on the outer side surface of the camera decorative ring 200, that is, the antenna coil 310 is located on one side of the camera decorative ring 200 facing the camera lens 400, the antenna contact 330 is located on the other side of the camera decorative ring 200, the two sides are distributed in a back-to-back manner, the antenna spring is convenient to be in elastic electrical contact with the antenna contact 330 through the design mode, and the. Note that the inner surface of the camera bezel 200 refers to a surface of the camera bezel 200 facing the device cavity of the electronic device.

In a further technical scheme, the camera decorative ring 200 may be provided with a light-supplementing avoiding hole 210, and specifically, the antenna coil 310 may be electrically connected to the antenna contact 330 through the flexible electrical connector 340. The flexible electrical connector 340 may be a flexible circuit board or a flexible cable. Specifically, a first end of the flexible electrical connector 340 is electrically connected to the antenna coil 310, and a second end of the flexible electrical connector 340 passes through the light-filling avoiding hole 210 and is electrically connected to the antenna contact 330. In this case, flexible electrical connector 340 has certain length to can pass the light filling and dodge hole 210 better, simultaneously, because flexible electrical connector 340 has deformability, thereby adjust the position of antenna contact 330 through the deformation of self better, make antenna contact 330 can be easier with the antenna shell fragment electrical contact after the adjustment position. In this scheme, the light filling dodges hole 210 not only plays the effect that supplies the light filling light to pass, can also supply flexible electric connector 340 to pass to make things convenient for antenna contact 330 and the interior antenna shell fragment electrical contact of electronic equipment, thereby need not to set up the structure of dodging for antenna contact 330's electric connection again.

Because the camera is decorated circle 200 and has been seted up the light filling and dodge hole 210, and is optional, the module of making a video recording can dispose the light filling lamp, and the light filling lamp setting is inside electronic equipment, and the camera of being convenient for carries out the light filling when shooing in darker environment (for example cloudy day, basement), and is concrete, and the light of light filling lamp at the in-process transmission of work passes the light filling and dodges hole 210 and projects in the environment that electronic equipment located. Of course, in the case that the electronic device includes the camera lens 400, the light passes through the light supplement avoiding hole 210 and the camera lens 400 and is projected into the environment where the electronic device is located.

In order to better ensure the position of the antenna contact 330, in a further technical solution, one of the camera decorative ring 200 and the second end of the flexible electrical connector 340 may be provided with a positioning protrusion 200a, the other may be provided with a positioning recess or a positioning through hole, and the second end of the flexible electrical connector 340 is fixed to the camera decorative ring 200 through the cooperation of the positioning protrusion 200a and the positioning recess or the positioning through hole. Because the antenna contact 330 is disposed at the second end of the flexible electrical connector 340, the positioning protrusion 200a is matched with the positioning recess or the positioning through hole to position the antenna contact 330, thereby avoiding the problem that the antenna contact 330 is easy to move and causes poor contact with the antenna spring.

In this embodiment of the application, the antenna assembly may be an NFC antenna 300, the NFC antenna 300 may include an antenna coil 310 and an NFC ferrite 320, and the camera bezel 200 may be a metal bezel or a non-metal bezel. In the case where the camera bezel 200 is a metal bezel, the NFC ferrite 320 may be the camera bezel 200. In this case, the NFC antenna 300 may use the camera bezel 200 as the NFC ferrite 320, and does not need to specially configure the NFC ferrite 320, so as to reduce the number of components, thereby achieving the purposes of simplifying the structure and reducing the cost. Of course, the camera bezel 200 can serve as the NFC ferrite 320, and a dual-purpose effect can be achieved.

As mentioned above, the camera trim ring 200 may be a non-metallic trim ring, and in an alternative, the camera trim ring 200 may be an injection molded structure. The antenna module can decorate circle 200 formula injection moulding structure as an organic whole with the camera, and this kind of injection moulding's structure has advantages such as the qualification rate is higher, manufacturing efficiency is higher.

Further, the antenna module may be the NFC antenna 300, the NFC antenna 300 may further include an antenna coil 310 and an NFC ferrite 320, the antenna coil 310 may be fixed on the NFC ferrite 320, the NFC ferrite 320 may have a rubber pulling hole 321 in a case that the camera bezel 200 is an injection molding structure, and a part of the structure of the camera bezel 200 is molded in the rubber pulling hole 321. At the in-process that circle 200 was moulded plastics is decorated to the camera, during liquid glue hole 321 is glued to drawing can be filled to moulding plastics to drawing to solidify in gluing hole 321, finally can increase the camera and decorate the area of being connected of circle 200 and NFC ferrite 320, and then reach increase joint strength's purpose, make the structure comparatively stable.

In this application embodiment, circle 200 is decorated to camera can also include that circle 220 is decorated to the first layer and circle 230 is decorated to the second layer, circle 220 is decorated to the first layer and circle 230 superpose is decorated to the second layer, and set gradually towards the direction of keeping away from the camera, circle 220 is decorated to the first layer and circle 230 is decorated to the second layer can be moulded plastics continuously, circle 220 is decorated to the first layer and circle 230 injection moulding's in-process is decorated to the second layer in the first layer, the plastic is at the in-process that solidifies gradually, realize that circle 220 is decorated to the first layer and circle 230 is decorated to the second layer and be connected, this kind of forming mode is favorable to passing through double-colored injection moulding, and then decorate the colour that circle 220 is decorated to the first layer and circle 230 is decorated to the second layer more convenient nimble ground adjustment, reach the mesh of.

In a further aspect, the NFC antenna 300 may be injection molded on the second bezel 230, and the color of the first bezel 220 may be consistent with the color of the device housing 100. Under this condition, the inside assembly space that not only need not to set up NFC antenna 300 specially again of electronic equipment, and then reduces occupation of inner space, and NFC antenna 300 moulds plastics on second layer bezel 230 moreover, is favorable to making NFC antenna 300 set up outside equipment casing 100 more. Meanwhile, the color of the first bezel 220 is set to the color of the device case 100, so that the user visually perceives that the thickness of the electronic device is not thick during the use of the electronic device.

To better secure the position of the antenna contact 330, the NFC antenna 300 may optionally include the antenna contact 330, and the antenna contact 330 is molded on the camera bezel 200 and exposed on the side of the camera bezel 200 facing the camera. Under the condition that antenna contact 330 is the structure of moulding plastics, need not additionally again to set up fixed knot structure for antenna contact 330 for the assembly process becomes simple, and then can reach the simplified structure, reduces the use of inner space. An antenna clip may be disposed within the device housing 100 and in electrical contact with the antenna contact 330. In this arrangement, the antenna contact 330 is directly fixed to the camera bezel 200, and thus, a fixing structure is not required to be additionally configured, thereby facilitating stable contact with the antenna dome.

Based on the module of making a video recording that this application embodiment disclosed an electronic equipment, the disclosed electronic equipment includes equipment casing 100 and the module of making a video recording above.

The device housing 100 is the mounting base for the various components of the electronic device and also provides protection for these components. For example, the camera is disposed in the device housing 100, so that the camera can be prevented from directly contacting other objects, thereby scraping the camera and affecting the shooting function of the camera.

The apparatus case 100 may be provided with a mounting hole in which the camera bezel 200 is mounted. Through this kind of assembly setting, be favorable to reducing the occupation of the module of making a video recording to electronic equipment's inner space, and then can reduce the thickness of other regions on the electronic equipment except that circle 200 is decorated to the camera, combine the above simultaneously the design of antenna module, can reduce electronic equipment at the ascending thickness of camera shooting side for electronic equipment's thickness is more frivolous.

In the embodiment of the present application, by limiting the installation position of the camera bezel 200 and setting components in the antenna assembly in the camera module, for example, the placement position of the antenna coil 310, and using the camera bezel 200 as the NFC ferrite 320, etc., the thickness of the electronic device in the camera shooting direction is reduced, and the thickness of the electronic device in the camera shooting direction is reduced, so that the thickness of the electronic device is thinner and the internal space in the device housing 100 is larger.

In an alternative scheme, the antenna coil 310 is disposed on a portion of the camera trim bezel 200, which is located outside the device housing 100, so that the occupation of the antenna coil 310 on the internal space of the electronic device can be further reduced, which is beneficial for the electronic device to be designed towards a thinner direction.

The electronic device disclosed in the embodiment of the present application may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, an electronic book reader, a game machine, a wearable device, and the like, and the embodiment of the present application does not limit the specific kind of the electronic device.

In the embodiments of the present application, the difference between the embodiments is described in detail, and different optimization features between the embodiments can be combined to form a better embodiment as long as the differences are not contradictory, and further description is omitted here in view of brevity of the text.

The above description is only an example of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application. Various modifications and changes may occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the scope of the claims of the present application.

Claims

1. The camera module is characterized by comprising a camera, a camera decorative ring (200) and a camera lens (400), wherein the camera module comprises an antenna assembly, the antenna assembly comprises an antenna coil (310), the camera decorative ring (200) and the camera are arranged oppositely, the camera lens (400) is arranged on the camera decorative ring (200), and the antenna coil (310) is arranged on the camera decorative ring (200).

2. The camera module of claim 1, wherein the antenna assembly is an NFC antenna (300), the NFC antenna (300) comprising the antenna coil (310) and an NFC ferrite (320), the NFC ferrite (320) and the antenna coil (310) each being secured to the camera bezel (200).

3. The camera module according to claim 2, characterized in that the camera lens (400), the NFC antenna (300) and the camera bezel (200) are arranged in sequence.

4. The camera module according to claim 1, wherein the antenna coil (310) is electrically connected with an antenna contact (330), the antenna contact (330) is located on an inner side surface of the camera bezel (200), the antenna coil (310) is located on an outer side surface of the camera bezel (200), and the antenna contact (330) is used for electrically contacting with an antenna dome of an electronic device.

5. The camera module according to claim 4, wherein the camera head decorative ring (220) has a light-compensating avoiding hole (210), the antenna coil (310) is electrically connected to the antenna contact (330) through a flexible electrical connector (340), a first end of the flexible electrical connector (340) is electrically connected to the antenna coil (310), and a second end of the flexible electrical connector (340) passes through the light-compensating avoiding hole (210) and is electrically connected to the antenna contact (330).

6. The camera module according to claim 5, characterized in that one of the camera head decorative ring (200) and the second end of the flexible electrical connector (340) is provided with a positioning protrusion (200a), the other is provided with a positioning groove or a positioning through hole, and the second end of the flexible electrical connector (340) is fixed to the camera head decorative ring (200) through the cooperation of the positioning protrusion (200a) and the positioning groove or the positioning through hole.

7. The camera module of claim 1, wherein the antenna assembly is an NFC antenna (300), the NFC antenna (300) comprises the antenna coil (310) and an NFC ferrite (320), the camera bezel (200) is a metal bezel, and the camera bezel (200) is the NFC ferrite (320).

8. The camera module of claim 1, wherein the camera bezel (200) is an injection molded structure and the antenna assembly is an integral injection molded structure with the camera bezel (200).

9. The camera module according to claim 8, wherein the antenna assembly is an NFC antenna (300), the NFC antenna (300) includes the antenna coil (310) and an NFC ferrite (320), the antenna coil (310) is fixed on the NFC ferrite (320), the NFC ferrite (320) is provided with a glue pulling hole (321), and a part of the structure of the camera head decorative ring (200) is molded in the glue pulling hole (321).

10. The camera module according to claim 1, characterized in that the camera bezel (200) comprises a first layer bezel (220) and a second layer bezel (230), the first layer bezel (220) and the second layer bezel (230) are overlapped and arranged in sequence in a direction away from the camera, the first layer bezel (220) and the second layer bezel (230) are connected by injection molding, the antenna assembly is injected on the second layer bezel (230), and the color of the first layer bezel (220) is consistent with the color of the device housing (100) of the electronic device.

11. The camera module according to claim 1, wherein the antenna assembly further comprises an antenna contact (330), the antenna contact (330) is molded on the camera bezel (200), the antenna contact (330) is electrically connected with the antenna coil (3310), and the antenna contact (330) is exposed on an inner side surface of the camera bezel (200), the antenna contact (330) is used for electrically contacting an antenna dome in an equipment housing (100) of an electronic device.

12. An electronic device, comprising a device housing (100) and the camera module of any one of claims 1 to 11, wherein the camera is disposed in the device housing (100), the device housing (100) defines a mounting hole, and the camera bezel (200) is mounted in the mounting hole.