JP3799615B2 - Mounting the camera module on the board - Google Patents

Description

This invention relates to method for mounting a substrate in the camera module, particularly, At a method for mounting a substrate in the camera module to be installed in mobile phones, to increase the mounting efficiency of the camera module, the mounting accuracy The present invention relates to a method for mounting an improved camera module on a substrate.

  A conventional method for mounting this type of camera module on a substrate will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 4 shows a method of mounting the camera module 1 on a printed circuit board (PWB) 2. As shown in FIG. 4A, the terminals 3 of the printed circuit (not shown) are exposed on the printed circuit board 2. The camera module 1 is placed on the terminal 3 and the terminal 4 of the camera module 1 is connected to the terminal 3 by soldering 5 as shown in FIG.

  Since the camera module 1 does not have heat resistance to withstand a furnace temperature of about 230 to 240 degrees in reflow and cannot be soldered by reflow, the mounting operation is manual mounting by hand soldering. It is done at.

  FIG. 5 shows a method of mounting the camera module 1 on a flexible printed circuit board (FPC) 6. As shown in FIG. 5A, terminals 7 of a printed circuit (not shown) are placed on the flexible printed circuit board 6. The camera module 1 is placed on the terminal 7 and the terminal 4 of the camera module 1 is connected to the terminal 7 by soldering 8 as shown in FIG. is there.

  Also, when the camera module 1 is mounted on the flexible printed circuit board 6, reflow is impossible as in the case where the camera module 1 is mounted on the printed circuit board 2, and the mounting operation is performed by hand soldering. This is done by hand mounting.

  As described above, when the camera module 1 is mounted on the printed circuit board 2 and when mounted on the flexible printed circuit board 6, the mounting operation is performed manually by hand soldering. There was a possibility that the mounting accuracy would be lowered.

  Therefore, there is a technical problem to be solved in order to improve the working efficiency and improve the mounting accuracy in mounting the camera module on the substrate. The present invention aims to solve this problem. And

The present invention has been proposed to achieve the above object, and includes a step of placing solder on the first terminal exposed on the substrate, and a camera module incorporated on the first terminal and the solder. For mounting a connector having a hollow portion encapsulated by four inner side surfaces open at one end and projecting a second terminal on the four inner side surfaces forming the hollow portion so as to give elasticity A camera module having a third terminal connected to the second terminal and elastically connecting the second terminal and the third terminal to the camera module using the connector A mounting method for mounting the camera module on the circuit board, wherein the board is a printed circuit board on the board of the camera module. Implementation, the second terminal is performed automatically mounted by reflow to the first terminal and the solder, and a hole the second terminal is provided on the substrate side bottom portion of the hollow portion Further, the printed circuit board is a printed circuit board having sufficient heat resistance to withstand reflow, and a method for mounting a camera module for use in a mobile phone on a printed board A method for mounting a camera module on a substrate is provided.

Invention of the present onset Ming請 Motomeko 1 described, on a substrate, mounted a connector for incorporating a camera module, since the incorporate camera module into the connector, when mounting the connector to the substrate, Since the solder is placed on the first terminal exposed on the substrate, automatic mounting by reflow is easily and efficiently performed, and the working efficiency can be greatly improved as compared with conventional manual mounting. In addition, the mounting accuracy can be improved. Furthermore, since the camera module is assembled using the connector, the camera module becomes detachable, and it is natural that the camera module can be easily replaced when a defect is found in the camera module .

Furthermore, the present invention is a printed circuit board having sufficient heat resistance to withstand reflow when the connector is mounted on the board, and a method for mounting a camera module for use in a mobile phone on a printed circuit board. Therefore, when the printed circuit board is used for a mobile phone, it is natural that the effect of further improving the mounting accuracy of the thin printed circuit board can be expected . Further, according to the present invention, since the second terminal disposed on the connector protrudes in correspondence with the hole provided on the bottom surface portion on the substrate side, the elastic contact with the third terminal of the camera module is achieved. Operation is performed smoothly.

  Furthermore, according to the present invention, the substrate can also be applied to a flexible printed circuit board. Therefore, when a flexible printed circuit board is used as the substrate, the same effects as those described above can be expected. It is an invention that has a remarkable effect.

It is an object of the present invention to increase the working efficiency and improve the mounting accuracy in mounting a camera module on a board. For mounting the connector on the first terminal and the solder, the first terminal and the solder are mounted. The second terminal is automatically mounted by reflow on the second terminal, and the second terminal protrudes corresponding to a relief hole provided in the bottom surface of the hollow portion on the substrate side. , camera Furthermore, the printed circuit board to a printed circuit board having sufficient heat resistance to withstand the reflow, characterized in that it is a method for mounting printed board of the camera module to be subjected to the use of mobile phones This was realized by adopting the module mounting method on the board.

  Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 shows a method of mounting the camera module 11 on the printed circuit board 12. The first terminal 13 of the printed circuit (not shown) is exposed on the printed circuit board 12. The connector 14 is fixed to the connector 14 by soldering, the camera module 11 is assembled into the connector 14, and the camera module 11 is mounted on the printed circuit board 12.

Thus, the connector has a hollow portion E formed by being encapsulated by four inner surfaces open at one end for incorporating the camera module 11, and the second inner surface forming the hollow portion E has the second portion. The terminal 13a is provided with elasticity, and the second terminal 13a is provided so as to correspond to the hole F opened in the bottom surface of the hollow portion E on the substrate side. .

FIG. 2 shows in detail the process of mounting the above-described camera module 11 on the printed circuit board 12 in the order of the processes. In the process 1, the first exposed and provided on the printed circuit board 12 is shown.
The solder 15 is placed on the terminal 13, and the connector 14 is placed on the first terminal 13 and the solder 15. As clearly shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the connector 14 is provided with a second terminal 13a to be soldered to the first terminal 13, and the second terminal 13a and the printed circuit board are provided. The first terminal 13 exposed at 12 is automatically mounted by reflow, and the connector 14 is mounted on the printed circuit board 12 as shown in step 2. When the camera module 11 is assembled into the connector 14 in step 3, the camera module 11 is mounted on the printed circuit board 12 as shown in step 4.

  That is, the camera module 11 has a third terminal 13b for connecting to the second terminal 13a of the connector 14, as clearly shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, and the third terminal 13b is connected to the second terminal 13a. The camera module 11 is mounted on the printed circuit board 12 by connecting to the second terminal 13a.

  Thus, the above-described method for mounting the camera module 11 on the printed circuit board 12 mounts the camera module 11 via the connector 14, so that when the connector 14 is mounted on the printed circuit board 12, reflow is used. Automatic mounting becomes possible, so that the working efficiency can be significantly increased as compared with the conventional manual mounting by manual soldering, and the mounting accuracy can be improved. Further, the connector 14 has a hollow portion E formed by being encapsulated by four inner surfaces open at one end for incorporating the camera module 11 as shown in the figure and as described above. The second terminal 13a is elastically projected on the inner surface forming the.

  Further, since the camera module 11 is assembled using the connector 14, the camera module 11 is detachable with respect to the connector 14, and the camera module 11 is detected when a defect of the camera module 11 is found in an inspection process or the like. Can be easily replaced.

  FIG. 3 shows a method of mounting the camera module 11 on the flexible printed circuit board 16. First, the mounting method is applied to a terminal 17 of a printed circuit (not shown) provided exposed on the flexible printed circuit board 16. The solder 18 is placed, the connector 14 is placed on the terminal 17 and the solder 18, and automatic mounting by reflow is performed. When the camera module 11 is assembled in the connector 14, the camera module 11 is mounted on the flexible printed circuit board 16. The flexible printed circuit board 16 has sufficient heat resistance to withstand reflow.

  Thus, in the method of mounting the camera module 11 on the flexible printed circuit board 16, the same effect as that of the method of mounting the camera module 11 on the printed circuit board 12 can be expected.

  In the above description, the case where the camera module 11 is mounted has been described. However, instead of the camera module 11, for example, a Bluetooth module can also be mounted by the method of the present invention. For example, the method of the present invention can be applied to mounting various modules and various components.

  Also, the present invention can be variously modified without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and the present invention naturally extends to the modified ones.

The perspective view which shows one Embodiment of this invention and shows the method of mounting a camera module on a printed circuit board via a connector. The perspective view which shows one Embodiment of this invention and shows the process of mounting a camera module on a printed circuit board via a connector. The perspective view which shows one Embodiment of this invention and shows the method of mounting a camera module on a flexible printed circuit board via a connector. (A) The perspective view which shows a prior art example and shows the state before mounting a camera module on a printed circuit board. (B) The perspective view which shows the state which showed the prior art example and mounted the camera module on the printed circuit board. (A) The perspective view which shows a prior art example and shows the state before mounting a camera module on a flexible printed circuit board. (B) The perspective view which shows the prior art example and shows the state which mounted the camera module on the flexible printed circuit board.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Camera module 12 Printed circuit board 13 1st terminal 13a 2nd terminal 13b 3rd terminal 14 Connector 16 Flexible printed circuit board E Hollow part F hole

Claims (1)

A step of placing solder on the first terminal exposed on the substrate, and a hollow formed by being encapsulated on the first terminal and the solder on four inner side surfaces with one end open for incorporating a camera module And mounting a connector projecting so as to give elasticity to the second terminal on the four inner surfaces forming the hollow portion, and a third terminal connected to the second terminal And mounting the camera module on a circuit board using a connector by elastically connecting the second terminal and the third terminal to each other. In the method for mounting the camera module on the substrate, which is a printed circuit board,
The mounting of the connector on the first terminal and the solder is performed by automatically mounting the second terminal on the first terminal and the solder by reflow, and the second terminal is the hollow. in response to holes formed in the substrate side bottom portion of the section are projecting further the printed circuit board is a printed circuit board having sufficient heat resistance to withstand the reflow, the use of mobile phones A method for mounting a camera module on a substrate, comprising mounting a camera module to be provided on a printed substrate.

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