KR20060030668A - Mobile phone having improved manual/automatic camera module and camera module used for it - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mobile phone having a manual / automatic camera module, which is capable of rotating the camera module manually and automatically, to improve user convenience, and to achieve a stable rotation operation, and a camera module used therefor.

      The present invention includes a main body having a transmitter and a keypad including a microphone; And a folder unit rotatably connected to the main body unit through a hinge unit, the folder unit including a receiving unit including a speaker and a liquid crystal display unit, and an elastic connecting unit connecting the camera module to a rotating shaft of a geared motor on the hinge unit. The elastic connecting means is a state in which the rotation operation of the camera module in the manual mode does not rotate the rotation shaft of the geared motor, in the automatic mode is the improved operation that the rotation operation of the geared motor is transmitted to the camera module is rotated Provided are a mobile phone having a manual / automatic camera module and a camera module for use.

      According to the present invention, it is possible to implement the rotation operation as a soft feeling at the time of manual rotation, to prevent the early breakage of the geared motor and to obtain the effect of greatly improving the durability.

Camera Module, Mobile Phone, Camera Phone, Video Cell Phone, Manual / Auto Camera Module

Description

Mobile Phone Having Improved Manual / Automatic Camera Module And Camera Module used for it}

1 is an appearance configuration diagram showing a mobile phone according to the prior art;

2 is a partial cutaway sectional view showing a manual / automatic camera module provided in a cellular phone according to the prior art;

3 is an external configuration diagram showing a mobile phone according to the present invention;

4 is an exploded perspective view showing elastic connecting means provided in a mobile phone with an improved manual / automatic camera module according to the present invention;

5 is a detailed view showing a manual / automatic camera module provided in a mobile phone according to the present invention, a) is a partial cutaway cross-sectional view, b) is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A of FIG.

         c) is a sectional view along the line B-B in FIG. a);

Figure 6 is an explanatory view showing a coupling structure of the elastic bodies and the barrel provided in the mobile phone according to the present invention;

7 is a configuration diagram for explaining a change in the elastic force applied to the hinge axis by the elastic body in the barrel provided in the mobile phone according to the present invention;

8 is an explanatory diagram showing the state in which the camera module is rotated in the manual mode according to the present invention by angle,

         a) shows the displacement process from 0 ° to 45 °,

         b) shows the displacement process from 45 ° to 90 °;

9 a), b), c) and d) are explanatory views showing the shape of the polygonal space formed by the elastic body in the barrel provided in the cellular phone according to the present invention and the arrangement of the hinge shafts coupled thereto.

       <Description of Symbols for Main Parts of Drawings>

1 .... a mobile phone according to the invention

3 .... Main Unit 5 .... Hinge

6 .... Folder 7 .... Camera Module

8 .... geared motor 8a ... axis of rotation

10 .... elastic connecting means 15 .... elastic body

17.Hinge Shaft 22 ....

26a, 26b ... 1st, 2nd frame 100 .... conventional mobile phone

110 .... Camera Module 114 .... Lens Section

116 .... Knurling part 120 .... Main part

122 .... Transmitter 124 .... Keypad

130 .... Folder 132 .... LCD Display

134 .... Receiver 160 .... Geared Motor

162 .... axis of rotation 164 .... gear train

166 .... motor element d1 .... distance between elastomers

d2 .... diagonal of hinge axis S ..... space

Sa .... Corner Sb .... Corner Angle

The present invention relates to a mobile phone equipped with a manual / automatic camera module (Camera Module) and a camera module used therein. More specifically, the camera module can be rotated manually and automatically. By implementing the manual operation, as well as the rotation angle of the camera module can be reliably felt, the mobile phone and the camera used with the improved manual / automatic camera module to improve the user's convenience and achieve a stable rotation operation It is about a module.

In recent years, mobile phones have been increasingly miniaturized due to high sensitivity and light weight of electronic components, and functions of mobile phones have been diversified according to consumer needs. In addition to the call function, such mobile phones are generally used for mobile phones equipped with various functions such as games, Internet search, E-mail reception and transmission, payment, etc. In recent years, a camera module is used to take a picture of an object with a mobile phone. It is common to add a role of a phone and an image mobile phone which takes a picture of its own shape with a camera and transmits it to a counterpart.

1 illustrates a mobile phone 100 in which a conventional camera module 110 is installed.

The conventional mobile phone 100 has a folder-type structure, the camera module 110 is mounted to the hinge 140 connecting the main body 120 and the folder 130.

The conventional mobile phone 100 has a body portion 120 and a folder portion 130 that is rotated and opened around the hinge portion 140, the body portion 120 includes a microphone (not shown) And a keypad (124) including a plurality of key buttons (Key-Buttons) is installed, and the folder unit 130 has a liquid crystal display unit 132 for displaying letters and numbers; And a receiver 134 including a speaker (not shown).

And, one side of the hinge portion 140 is mounted to the camera module 110 as shown in Figure 2, the camera module 110 has a structure having a lens portion 114 in the barrel 112, One side thereof is connected to a geared motor 160 for rotating the camera module 110.

The conventional mobile phone 100 has a camera module 110 having a lens 114 is rotatably mounted in a circular frame 126 on the main body 120, the user within the circular frame 126 It is a structure that is rotated manually or automatically as intended.

In addition, the conventional mobile phone 100 is directly connected to the barrel 112 of the camera module 110 to the rotating shaft 162 of the geared motor 160 to automatically rotate, and implements the function of a video phone or a camera phone It is supposed to be.

That is, when the user wants to use the mobile phone as an image mobile phone, the user opens the folder unit 130 from the main body 120 of the mobile phone 100, and the lens unit 114 of the camera module 110 moves to the user side. When placed to face, that is, as shown in Figure 1) the camera module 110 is placed in the home position of 0 ° state can be used by the user as a video mobile phone.

Unlike this, in case of using as a camera phone, the camera module 110 is rotated so that the lens unit 114 of the camera module 110 is located at a 180 ° position opposite to the user.

First, an operation of rotating the camera module 110 in the automatic mode will be described.

When the user presses the upper side of the switch button 120a provided on one side of the main body 120 and operates the geared motor 160 to rotate the camera module 110 forward, the lens unit 114 of the camera module 110 Comes to a 180 ° position opposite to the user, and the user can use the mobile phone with the camera phone.

In addition, when the camera module 110 is to be used as an image mobile phone again in the above state, when the lower side of the switch button 120a is pressed, the geared motor 160 rotates the camera module 110 in reverse, and the home position It can be used as a video mobile phone by coming to 0 ° state.

Therefore, the user rotates the camera module 110 in the range of 0 ° or 180 ° by operating the geared motor 160 in the automatic mode.

In this process, the conventional mobile phone 100 is provided with a means (not shown) for detecting the rotation state of the camera module 110 to be rotated in the range of 0 ° or 180 °.

Next, an operation of rotating the camera module 110 in the manual mode will be described.

This is to rotate the barrel 112 of the camera module 110 by the user's hand, the camera module 110 forms a knurling portion 116 on one outer peripheral surface of the barrel 112 to form this portion. When the user pushes or pulls by hand, the barrel 112 is rotated at an arbitrary angle.

When the barrel 112 of the camera module 110 is manually rotated as described above, since the barrel 112 is integrally connected to the rotation shaft 162 of the geared motor 160, the rotation of the barrel 112 is geared. The rotating shaft 162 of the motor 160 is rotated at the same time.

In this case, the rotation shaft 162 of the geared motor 160 is connected to the rotor 166a of the motor element 166 through a gear train 164 as shown in FIG. Row 164 does not rotate smoothly because the rotation is transmitted from the reverse rotation, that is, the rotation from the barrel 112 toward the motor element 166.

Therefore, the user is burdened and uncomfortable with the hand, the noise generated in the gear train 164 and the excessive load to give a problem that the life of the geared motor 160 is shortened due to premature failure of the gear train 164 It is.

In addition, when the conventional mobile phone 100 rotates the camera module 110, the camera module 110 is fixed at an angle of only 0 ° or 180 ° so that it can be used only as a function of a video camera or a camera phone. It was not possible to obtain a variety in the rotation angle of the camera module 110.

In other words, if necessary, the camera module 110 is required to be varied from the home position 0 ° to 45 °, 90 °, 135 ° or 180 °, etc., in the conventional mobile phone 100 such a request The conditions could not be met at all, and manual adjustments made the user uncomfortable.

The present invention is to solve the conventional problems as described above, so that the camera module can be rotated manually and automatically, and when the manual rotation to the user to implement a manual operation with a soft feeling to improve the convenience of use It is a first object to provide a mobile phone with an improved manual / automatic camera module and a camera module for use therein.

In addition, the present invention can obtain a variety of rotation angle of the camera module during manual rotation, and at the same time can be surely feel the rotation angle of the mobile phone having an improved manual / automatic camera module to achieve a stable manual rotation operation And a second object in providing a camera module used therein.

In addition, the present invention is a mobile phone having an improved manual / automatic camera module to improve the durability of the geared motor to significantly increase the durability of the geared motor by not transmitting excessive load to the gear train by the rotation of the camera module is not transmitted to the geared motor side during manual rotation And a third object to provide a camera module used for this.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention, in a mobile phone having a manual / automatic camera module that can be used as an image camera or camera phone,

A main body having a transmitter and a keypad including a microphone;

A folder unit rotatably connected to the main body unit through a hinge unit and having a receiver unit including a speaker and a liquid crystal display unit; and

And elastic connecting means for connecting the camera module to the rotating shaft of the geared motor on the hinge portion.

The resilient connecting means is a state in which the rotational operation of the camera module in the manual mode does not rotate the rotating shaft of the geared motor by deforming the elastic body of the camera module side, in the automatic mode the rotational operation of the geared motor is the camera module It provides a mobile phone with an improved manual / automatic camera module, characterized in that it is transmitted to the elastic body on the side to be rotated.

Preferably, the present invention, the elastic connecting means is a plurality of elastic bodies mounted to the camera module; And,

A mobile phone having an improved manual / automatic camera module, characterized in that it comprises a hinge shaft supported between the elastic bodies and connected to a rotating shaft of the geared motor.

And more preferably, the present invention,

When the camera module is rotated in the manual mode, the torque force for the elastic bodies to rotate the hinge axis is formed smaller than the minimum driving force for the hinge axis to rotate the gear train through the rotation axis of the geared motor the hinge axis Only the camera module is rotated without rotating the gear train; And,

When the camera module is rotated in the automatic mode, the hinge shaft connected to the rotating shaft of the geared motor is coupled to apply the elastic force to the hinge shaft to have a sufficient torque force to rotate the elastic bodies of the camera module together Provided is a mobile phone having an improved manual / automatic camera module.

       In addition, the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, in the camera module used in a mobile phone that can be used as an image camera or a camera phone,

A barrel equipped with a lens unit for photographing an image;

A geared motor having a rotating shaft for rotating the barrel; And

Includes; elastic connecting means for connecting the barrel to the rotating shaft of the geared motor,

The elastic connecting means is a state in which the rotational operation of the barrel in the manual mode deforms the elastic body of the barrel side to rotate the rotational shaft of the geared motor, in the automatic mode the rotational operation of the geared motor is an elastic body of the barrel side Provided is a camera module, characterized in that configured to be rotated to be made.

And, preferably, the elastic connecting means

A plurality of elastic bodies mounted to the barrel;

It provides a camera module, characterized in that it comprises a hinge shaft (Hinge Shaft) supported between the elastic bodies and connected to the rotating shaft of the geared motor.

And more preferably, the present invention,

When the barrel is rotated in the manual mode, the torque force for the elastic bodies to rotate the hinge shaft is formed smaller than the minimum driving force for the hinge shaft to rotate the gear train through the rotation shaft of the geared motor and the hinge shaft Only the camera module is rotated without rotating the gear train; And,

When the barrel is rotated in the automatic mode, the hinge shaft connected to the rotating shaft of the geared motor is coupled to the elastic shaft to apply an elastic force to the hinge shaft to have a sufficient torque force to rotate the elastic bodies of the barrel together. It provides a camera module.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

The mobile phone 1 having the improved manual / automatic camera module according to the present invention can be used as a video camera or a camera phone, as shown in FIG. Module is a structure that can be rotated in manual mode or automatic mode.

The mobile phone 1 with an improved manual / automatic camera module according to the invention comprises a body 2 including a transmitter 2 comprising a microphone and a keypad 3a, which is provided on the body 3. It is connected rotatably through the hinge portion 5 and has a folder portion 6 having a liquid crystal display portion 6a and a receiving portion 6b including a speaker.

In addition, the present invention is equipped with a camera module (7) on the hinge portion 5, the camera module (7) as shown in Figures 4 and 5, the camera module 7 is geared motor ( It is provided with an elastic connecting means 10 for connecting to the rotary shaft (8a) of 8).

When the user rotates the barrel 7a of the camera module 7 by hand in the manual mode, the elastic connecting means 10 rotates the rotating shaft 8a of the geared motor 8 by the camera module 7. Only the camera module 7 is rotated without rotating, and in the automatic mode, the rotational operation of the geared motor 8 is transmitted to the camera module 7 and the camera module 7 is driven by the geared motor 8. Will be made to rotate.

For this purpose, the elastic connecting means 10 is preferably supported by a plurality of elastic bodies 15 mounted on the camera module 7, the elastic bodies 15 and the rotating shaft of the geared motor 8 ( The structure includes a hinge shaft 17 connected to 8a).

The elastic bodies 15 are made of wires having a predetermined length of thin elastic force, and both ends thereof are formed in the fixing groove 22 formed on the inner circumferential surface of the barrel 7a, respectively, as shown in FIG. 6. Is supported.

In this case, both ends of the elastic body 15 are elastically fitted into the fixing groove 22 in the state where an adhesive (not shown) is applied, and then integrated into the inner circumferential surface of the barrel 7a by curing of the adhesive. It can be fixed to each.

In this way, the present invention is a camera module (7) used in a mobile phone that can be used as an image camera or a camera phone, a barrel (7a) equipped with a lens portion (7b) for taking an image, and rotates the barrel (7a) And elastic connecting means (10) for connecting the barrel (7a) to the rotating shaft (8a) of the geared motor (8) between the geared motor (8) having a rotating shaft (8a) for the purpose of said elastic connecting means. 10 is a state in which the rotating operation of the barrel 7a in the manual mode deforms the elastic body 15 on the barrel 7a side so as not to rotate the rotation shaft 8a of the geared motor 8, and automatically In the mode, the rotational operation of the geared motor 8 is transmitted to the elastic body 15 on the side of the barrel 7a to be rotated.

Thus, the plurality of elastic bodies 15 are fixed inside the barrel 7a of the camera module 7 and are shown in phantom in the center of the barrel 7a in FIG. To form. In the above-described octagonal space S, the corners Sa have the same length as each other, and the shape of the regular octagon with the corner angles Sb therebetween is preferable.

In addition, the octagonal spaces S formed by the four elastic bodies 15 each form a square first frame 26a, which is 45 in the circumferential direction of the barrel 7a with respect to the first frame 26a. The second frame 26b is shifted to form the second frame 26b, and the first frame 26a and the second frame 26b are preferably arranged adjacent to each other, as shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B.

In addition, the hinge shaft 17 is coupled to the inside of the octagonal space S as shown in FIG. 7, and the hinge axis 17 is a pair of edges facing each other in the octagonal space S. FIG. It is preferable that the (Sa) is formed to have a cross-sectional size that is elastically fitted into the virtual rectangular space formed.

In the above, since the distance d1 between the opposite edges Sa of the octagonal space S is smaller than the diagonal length d2 of the hinge axis 17, the gap d1 is in contact with the diagonal edge of the hinge axis 17. The elastic bodies 15 of the octagonal space S rotate while being elastically deformed to the outside.

In this way, the hinge shaft 17 coupled to the octagonal space S formed by the elastic body 15 has a magnitude of elastic force to which the elastic body 15 presses the hinge shaft 17.

That is, when the camera module 7 is rotated in the manual mode so that the user rotates the barrel 7a of the camera module 7 by hand, the elastic bodies 15 may have a torque force for rotating the hinge shaft 17 ( Torque force is generated, but this torque force is the minimum driving force by which the hinge shaft 17 rotates the gear train 8b through the rotation shaft 8a of the geared motor 8, that is, the rotation of the gear train 8b. It is formed smaller than the driving force that can achieve.

Accordingly, the elastic body 15 does not rotate the hinge shaft 17 and the gear train 8b, and rotates only the camera module 7 by moving over its edge separately from the hinge shaft 17.

In addition, the size of the elastic force for the elastic body 15 to press the hinge shaft 17 is a hinge shaft connected to the rotation shaft 8a of the geared motor 8 when the camera module 7 is rotated in the automatic mode ( 17 has sufficient coupling force to rotate the elastic bodies 15 of the camera module 7.

This is because the camera module 7 equipped with the plurality of elastic bodies 15 is free to rotate, so that the forward rotation operation of rotating the camera module 7 from the geared motor 8 side can be performed without any difficulty. To rotate the camera module 7.

Therefore, when the size of the elastic force that the elastic body 15 presses the hinge shaft 17 as described above is determined, even if the user rotates the barrel 7a of the camera module 7 in the manual mode, only the camera module 7 Rotation is made and rotational force is not transmitted to the geared motor 8 side, and in the automatic mode, the rotation of the camera module 7 by the geared motor 8 is normally performed.

On the other hand, in the above it can be seen that the size of the elastic force for the elastic body 15 to press the hinge shaft 17 is changeable according to the length of the elastic body 15. That is, as shown in FIG. 7, when the length of the elastic bodies 15 shown in solid lines becomes longer than the elastic bodies 15 indicated by dotted lines, the size of the octagonal space S that they form in the barrel 7a is formed. Is rather small.

In addition, when the barrel 7a rotates about the hinge shaft 17 fixed in the octagonal space S, and the elastic body 15 rotates around the hinge shaft 17, the elongated elastic body 15 While rotating, they deform with respect to the hinge axis 17, and the elastic force applied to the hinge axis 17, that is, the deformation resistance of the elastic body 15, becomes proportionally smaller.

As such, when the length of the elastic body 15 is increased, the elastic force that pressurizes and supports the hinge shaft 17 decreases in proportion to the length thereof. The length of 15) and the size of the hinge shaft 17 suitable for this are set.

In addition, although the elastic bodies 15 are described as forming the octagonal space S by forming the first and second frames 26a and 26b, the present invention provides the octagonal space ( It is of course possible to form S).

The present invention configured as described above, as shown in Figure 8, when the user wants to manually change the position of the camera module 7, when rotating the barrel (7a) of the camera module 7 by hand, the The elastic bodies 15 connected to the barrel 7a do not rotate the hinge shaft 17 and the gear train 8b, and move over the edge of the hinge shaft 17 to rotate only the camera module 7.

In this case, the camera module 7 is displaced from 0 ° to 45 °, assuming that the lens portion 7b rotates clockwise from the 0 ° home position position, as in FIG. 8A). In the process, the octagonal space S formed by the elastic body 15 is carried over as shown in FIG. 8B with respect to the hinge axis 17. At this time, since the distance d1 between the opposite edges Sa of the octagonal space S is smaller than the diagonal length d2 of the hinge axis 17, the space d1 contacts the diagonal edge of the hinge axis 17. The elastic bodies 15 of the octagonal space S rotate while being elastically deformed to the outside.

In this process, the user feels the elastic force of the elastic body 15 while rotating the camera module 7 to feel the softness and the buffering force of the rotation operation, and the corner Sa of the octagonal space S has the hinge shaft 17. Once passed, the rotation of the camera module 7 as the elastic restoring force of the elastic bodies 15 is accelerated and rotated to stop in the state rotated at 45 ° as shown in FIG. 8C.

In this way, the user who manually rotates the camera module 7 feels the elastic force by the elastic body 15, and after that, the user feels the acceleration rotation of the camera module 7 by the restoring force of the elastic body 15, and once to 45 ° Since the rotation of the camera module 7 stops in the rotated state, the user can achieve manual operation while reliably recognizing the rotation angle of the camera module 7.

In addition, if the camera module 7 is to be rotated further in the state of being rotated at 45 ° as described above, the above operation may be performed as shown in FIGS. 8D to 8F to obtain a rotation of 90 °. It can be obtained by rotating the 45 °, 90 °, 135 °, 180 ° sequentially from 0 ° to this operation.

In addition, when the user rotates the barrel 7a of the camera module 7 by hand, the restoration of the home position, that is, the position of 0 ° in the rotated state as described above, may cause the rotation of the camera module 7 to rotate. Counterclockwise (Counter-Clockwise), the rotation operation is the same as described above, a more detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In addition, in the above embodiment of the present invention, the elastic bodies 15 form an octagonal space S in which the camera module 7 is sequentially rotated from 0 ° to 45 °, 90 °, 135 °, 180 °. However, the present invention can form a polygonal space (S) that can be arranged differently differently.

As an example of such a polygonal space (S), as shown in a), b), c), d) of Figure 9, the elastic bodies 15 are each a triangular space, a quadrilateral space, a hexagonal space, a octagonal space. It is apparent that the number is variously adjustable to form the back, and all such modified structures are included within the scope of the present invention.

On the other hand, the present invention, if the user wants to automatically rotate the camera module 7, the user operates the geared motor 8 through a separate switch means (not shown), the elastic connection from the geared motor (8) The rotation force is applied to the camera module 7 side through the means 10, and the camera module 7 is smoothly rotated between 0 ° and 180 °.

In the case of such automatic operation, the elastic body 15 and the hinge shaft 17 constituting the elastic connecting means 10 are operated while being integrally held with each other, and since no relative rotational displacement occurs between them, the camera The module 7 is rotated without any resistance between 0 ° and 180 °.

And, in the process of operating in the automatic mode, the present invention detects the position of the camera module between 0 ° and 180 °, and control means for controlling the rotational direction and rotational drive of the geared motor in connection with the position ( Not shown) may be provided. As an example of such a control means, a magnet for detecting the current position of the camera module and a Hall sensor can be used, and for controlling the rotational direction and rotational drive of the geared motor at a position of 0 ° and 180 °. Of course, a sensor brush and a sensor FPCB may be used for convenience.

Such control means may use conventional techniques in the art, and can not be directly related to the present invention, so a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

According to the present invention as described above, the camera module 7 can be rotated manually and automatically, and during the manual rotation, only the camera module 7 is rotated without the gear train 8b of the geared motor 8 being rotated. Rotation is made, and the user can implement the rotation operation as a soft feeling because the user makes the rotation while feeling the elastic force of the elastic body 15 provided in the camera module (7).

In addition, the present invention can obtain a variety of rotation angle of the camera module 7 from 0 ° to 45 °, 90 °, 135 °, 180 ° during manual operation, and at the same time can feel the rotation angle reliably. This will achieve stable manual rotation operation. Therefore, the present invention obtains the effect of greatly improving the convenience in use during manual operation.

In addition, the present invention does not impose excessive load on the gear train (8b) by the rotation of the camera module 7 is not transmitted to the geared motor (8) during manual rotation to prevent premature damage of the geared motor (8) Durability can be greatly improved.

While the invention has been shown and described with respect to specific embodiments thereof, those skilled in the art can variously modify the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the claims below. And that they can be altered.

Claims (12)

In a mobile phone having a manual / automatic camera module that can be used as a video camera or a camera phone, A main body having a transmitter and a keypad including a microphone; A folder unit rotatably connected to the main body unit through a hinge unit and having a receiver unit including a speaker and a liquid crystal display unit; and And elastic connecting means for connecting the camera module to the rotating shaft of the geared motor on the hinge portion. The resilient connecting means is a state in which the rotational operation of the camera module in the manual mode does not rotate the rotating shaft of the geared motor by deforming the elastic body of the camera module side, in the automatic mode the rotational operation of the geared motor is the camera module A mobile phone with an improved manual / automatic camera module characterized in that it is configured to be rotated to be transmitted to the elastic body on the side. The method of claim 1, wherein the elastic connecting means A plurality of elastic bodies mounted to the camera module; And a hinge shaft supported between said elastic bodies and connected to a rotational axis of said geared motor. According to claim 1, When the camera module is rotated in the manual mode, the torque force (Torque Force) for the elastic body to rotate the hinge axis is less than the minimum driving force for the hinge axis to rotate the gear train through the rotation axis of the geared motor Is formed small so that only the camera module is rotated without rotation of the hinge shaft and the gear train; And, When the camera module is rotated in the automatic mode, the hinge shaft connected to the rotating shaft of the geared motor has a plurality of elastic bodies are coupled by applying an elastic force to the hinge shaft to have a sufficient torque force to rotate the elastic bodies of the camera module together Mobile phone with improved manual / automatic camera module.       3. A mobile phone having an improved manual / automatic camera module according to claim 2, wherein the magnitude of the elastic force for the elastic body to press the hinge axis is changeable according to the length of the elastic body. 3. The improved manual / automatic camera module according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of elastic bodies are fixed inside the barrel of the camera module to form a polygonal space at the center of the barrel, and a hinge axis is located in the polygonal space. Cell phone equipped. The method of claim 5, wherein the polygonal space is composed of an octagonal space, the rotation of the hinge axis around the camera module is characterized in that the rotation of the camera module is stopped at 45 °, 90 °, 135 °, 180 ° from 0 ° A mobile phone with an improved manual / automatic camera module. The method of claim 6, wherein the octagonal space is formed in the shape of a regular octagon, the corners having the same length with each other, the corner angles therebetween, The hinge shaft fitted inside the octagonal space is an improved manual / automatic camera module, characterized in that it is formed to have a cross-sectional size elastically fitted into a virtual rectangular space formed by a pair of opposite corners of the octagonal space. Equipped with a mobile phone.       7. The octagonal space of claim 6, wherein the four octagonal spaces each form a first frame having a square shape, and a second frame is formed by shifting the first frame by 45 ° in the circumferential direction of the barrel with respect to the first frame. And a second frame arranged adjacent to each other.       The camera module of claim 6, wherein an interval between opposing edges of the octagonal space is smaller than a diagonal length of the hinge axis so that the elastic bodies of the octagonal space contacting the diagonal edges of the hinge axis are elastically deformed to the outside. A mobile phone with an improved manual / automatic camera module characterized in that it achieves rotation. In the camera module used in a mobile phone that can be used as a video camera or a camera phone, A barrel equipped with a lens unit for photographing an image; A geared motor having a rotating shaft for rotating the barrel; And Includes; elastic connecting means for connecting the barrel to the rotating shaft of the geared motor, The elastic connecting means is a state in which the rotational operation of the barrel in the manual mode deforms the elastic body of the barrel side to rotate the rotational shaft of the geared motor, in the automatic mode the rotational operation of the geared motor is an elastic body of the barrel side The camera module, characterized in that configured to be rotated to be made. The method of claim 10, wherein the elastic connecting means A plurality of elastic bodies mounted to the barrel; And a hinge shaft supported between the elastic bodies and connected to the rotating shaft of the geared motor. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein when the barrel is rotated in the manual mode, the torque force for the elastic bodies to rotate the hinge axis is less than the minimum driving force for the hinge axis to rotate the gear train through the rotation axis of the geared motor. Formed to rotate only the camera module without rotation of the hinge shaft and the gear train; And, When the barrel is rotated in the automatic mode, the hinge shaft connected to the rotating shaft of the geared motor is coupled to the elastic shaft to apply an elastic force to the hinge shaft to have a sufficient torque force to rotate the elastic bodies of the barrel together. Camera module.

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