TWM511634U - Rotatable camera module - Google Patents

Description

Rotatable camera module

This creation relates to a camera module, and more particularly to a camera module for a smart mobile device.

In modern society, smart mobile devices such as mobile phones or tablets are indispensable for modern people's lives. For example, mobile phones can be used in addition to the most basic functions of answering and making calls. Read e-books, watch videos, or play games. In addition, with the rise of social networking sites, take photos or videos using camera modules in smart mobile devices and share them with social networking sites to share life with friends. It has also become a part of the daily life of modern people.

The camera module in the current smart mobile device has a front lens and a rear lens. Since the front lens is generally used only when a video call is made with a smart mobile device, the pixels of the front lens are generally compared with The pixels of the rear lens are low, so the quality of the photos taken by the front lens self-timer is also poor; however, in recent years, with the rise of the self-timer trend and the improvement of the photo quality requirements of modern mobile devices for smart mobile devices, The requirements for the pixels of the front lens are gradually increasing, but based on the standpoint of mobile phone production, the high-pixel front lens and the rear lens in a camera module of a smart mobile device will lead to a significant increase in the cost of the smart mobile device. .

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a camera module that can be applied to a smart mobile device and that the front lens pixel is lower than the rear lens without significantly increasing the manufacturing cost.

This creation provides a rotatable camera module that includes: a camera body, comprising a front shooting surface, a connecting surface and a lens, the front shooting surface is connected to the connecting surface, the lens is mounted on the front shooting surface; a driving unit, the driving unit is mounted on the camera a connecting surface of the body, and the driving unit has a rotating shaft transversely extending through the camera body, and the camera body is selectively flipped back and forth with the rotating shaft as an axis.

The driving unit can drive the lens of the camera body to flip back and forth. When the rotatable camera module is applied to the smart mobile device, the front and rear flipping of the lens can be used as the front lens or the rear lens of the smart mobile device. In this way, the situation in which the pixels of the front lens in the current smart mobile device are lower than the rear lens is improved, and the manufacturing cost of the smart mobile device is not greatly increased.

Preferably, the driving unit includes a first rotating member, a second rotating member and a driving member. The first rotating member is mounted on a connecting surface of the camera body, and the second rotating member is mounted on the connecting member. The driving member is rotated by the second rotating member interlocking the first rotating member. More preferably, the rotating shaft rotating member of the driving unit is perpendicular to the first rotating member.

Preferably, the first rotating member is a first gear, the driving member is a motor, and the second rotating member is a second gear. The first gear is fixed to the connecting surface, and the second gear is fixed. And meshing with the first gear. More specifically, the motor has a drive shaft that is mounted on the drive shaft and intermeshes with the first gear.

More preferably, the first gear has a first gear portion and an attachment surface, the first gear portion is located on an outer side edge of the first gear, and the first gear portion is coupled to the attachment surface, The affixing surface is fixed on the connecting surface of the camera body; the second gear has a second gear portion, the second gear portion is located on the outer side edge of the second gear, the second gear portion and the first gear portion Intermeshing, the rotation axis of the driving unit is perpendicular to the attachment surface.

Alternatively, the first rotating member is a worm wheel, and the second rotating member is a worm. The worm wheel is fixed to the connecting surface, and the worm gear meshes with the worm wheel. More specifically, the drive The moving member is a motor having a drive shaft, and the worm is mounted on the drive shaft and intermeshes with the worm wheel.

Preferably, the worm wheel has a first worm wheel portion and an affixing surface, the first worm wheel portion is located on an outer side edge of the worm wheel, and the first worm wheel portion is connected to the affixing surface, and the affixing surface is fixed The worm has a first worm portion, and the first worm portion and the first worm wheel portion are in mesh with each other, and a rotation axis of the driving unit is perpendicular to the affixing surface.

Alternatively, the first rotating member is a first gear, the second rotating member is a second gear, and the driving unit further comprises a belt, the first gear is fixed on the connecting surface, and the belt is simultaneously The sleeve is sleeved on the outer side edge of the first gear and on the outer side edge of the second gear. More specifically, the driving member is a motor, the motor has a driving shaft, and the two gears are mounted on the driving shaft, so that the driving member is linked to the first rotating member by the second rotating member and the belt And rotate.

Preferably, the first gear has a first gear portion and an attachment surface, the first gear portion is located on an outer side edge of the first gear, and the first gear portion is coupled to the attachment surface, The affixing surface is fixed on the connecting surface of the camera body; the second gear has a second gear portion, the second gear portion is located on the outer side edge of the second gear, and the belt is sleeved on the first gear portion at the same time And the second gear portion, and the belt system simultaneously meshes with the first gear portion and the second gear portion, and the rotation axis of the driving unit is perpendicular to the attachment surface.

1, 1A, 1B‧‧‧ Rotatable camera module

10, 10A, 10B‧‧‧ camera body

11‧‧‧Previous shooting surface

12, 12A‧‧‧ connection surface

13, 13A, 13B‧‧‧ lens

20, 20A‧‧‧ drive unit

21, 21A, 21B‧‧‧ first rotating parts

211, 211B‧‧‧First gear department

211A‧‧‧First Worm Wheel

212, 212A, 212B‧‧‧ affixed

22, 22A, 22B‧‧‧ drive parts

221, 221A, 221B‧‧‧ drive shaft

23, 23A, 23B‧‧‧ second rotating parts

231, 231B‧‧‧ second gear department

231A‧‧‧First Worm Department

24B‧‧‧ linkages

9‧‧‧Mobile phones

1 is an exploded view of the rotatable camera module of the first embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a front elevational view showing the assembly of the rotatable camera module of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view showing the assembly of the rotatable camera module of the first embodiment of the present invention in a mobile phone.

FIG. 4 is another side view of the camera module assembled in the first embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 is an exploded view of the rotatable camera module of the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a front elevational view showing the assembly of the rotatable camera module of the second embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 7 is an exploded view of the rotatable camera module of the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a front elevational view showing the assembly of the rotatable camera module of the third embodiment of the present invention.

First embodiment

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the first embodiment of the present invention provides a camera module 1 that includes a camera body 10 and a driving unit 20, and the camera body 10 includes a front camera. 11 and a rear shooting surface, a connecting surface 12 and a lens 13, the front shooting surface 11 is connected to the connecting surface 12, the connecting surface 12 is formed between the front shooting surface 11 and the rear shooting surface, and the front The angle between the imaging surface 11 and the connecting surface 12 is 90 degrees; the lens 13 is mounted on the front imaging surface 11.

The driving unit 20 includes a first rotating member 21, a driving member 22, a second rotating member 23 and a rotating shaft. The first rotating member 21 is a first gear, and the first rotating member 21 has a first a gear portion 211 and an attachment surface 212, the first gear portion 211 is located on an outer side edge of the first rotating member 21, and the first gear portion 211 is connected to the mounting surface 212, and the first rotating member 21 is The mounting surface 212 is fixed to the connecting surface 12 of the camera body 10, and the rotating shaft of the driving unit 20 is perpendicular to the mounting surface 212. The driving member 22 is a motor that can be fixed in the smart mobile device. The driving member 22 has a driving shaft 221; the second rotating member 23 is a second gear, and the second rotating member 23 is mounted on the driving shaft 221 and has a second gear portion 231, the second gear The portion 231 is located on the outer side edge of the second rotating member 23, and the second gear portion 231 of the second rotating member 23 and the first gear portion 211 of the first rotating member 21 are in mesh with each other.

As shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 , the rotatable camera module 1 drives the second rotating member 23 to rotate by using the driving shaft 221 of the driving member 22 , and the second gear portion 231 and the first gear are further rotated. The portions 211 are engaged with each other to rotate the first rotating member 21 while rotating the second rotating member 23, so that the lens 13 of the camera body 10 is turned back and forth with the rotating shaft of the driving unit 20 as an axis.

When the rotatable camera module 1 is applied to the mobile phone 9, the camera body can drive the rotating shaft of the unit 20 as an axis and flip back and forth. The lens 13 of the rotatable camera module 1 can simultaneously serve as the camera 13 The phone 9 is before or after the lens. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, when the object to be photographed and the user are respectively located on opposite sides of the mobile phone 9, the user can make the lens 13 of the rotatable camera module 1 face the object to be photographed. The front camera 11 of the camera module 1 that can be rotated is opposite to the touch screen of the mobile phone 9, so that the lens 13 of the rotatable camera module 1 is used as a rear lens; as shown in FIG. When the object to be photographed and the user are on the same side of the mobile phone 9, the user can flip the lens 13 of the rotatable camera module 1 back and forth, that is, the rear shooting surface of the rotatable camera module 1 and the mobile phone The touch screen of 9 is opposite to the lens, whereby the lens 13 of the rotatable camera module 1 is used as a front lens. Accordingly, the use of the rotatable camera module can improve the situation that the pixels of the front lens in the current mobile phone are lower than the rear lens, and can also reduce the problem that the mobile phone 9 needs to configure two kinds of lenses at the same time and increase the manufacturing cost.

It should be particularly noted that the present rotatable camera module 1 is applied to only an exemplary application in the mobile phone 9, and the rotatable camera module 1 can also be applied to, for example, a tablet computer, a laptop computer or the like. Used on a smart mobile device.

Second embodiment

As shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 , the rotatable camera module 1A provided by the second embodiment of the present invention is substantially the same as the rotatable camera module 1 of the first embodiment of the present invention, except that The first rotating member 21A of the driving unit 20A is a worm wheel. The first rotating member 21A has a first worm wheel portion 211A and an affixing surface 212A. The first worm wheel portion 211A is located outside the first rotating member 21A. The first worm wheel portion 211A is connected to the attachment surface 212A, and the attachment surface 212A of the first rotation member 21A is fixed to the connection surface 12A of the camera body 10A, and the rotation axis and the attachment The second rotating member 23A is a worm. The second rotating member 23A is mounted on the driving shaft 221A and has a first worm portion 231A. The first worm portion 231A of the second rotating member 23A is The first worm wheel portions 211A of the first rotating member 21A are in mesh with each other.

The rotatable camera module 1A rotates the driving shaft 221A of the driving member 22A to rotate the second rotating member 23A, and the first worm portion 231A and the first worm wheel portion 211A intermesh with each other to make the second When the rotating member 23A rotates, the first rotating member 21A is rotated, so that the lens 13A of the camera body 10A is turned back and forth with the rotating shaft of the driving unit 20A as an axis.

Third embodiment

As shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 , the rotatable camera module 1B provided by the third embodiment of the present invention is substantially the same as the rotatable camera module 1 of the first embodiment of the present invention, except that The driving unit further includes a linking member 24B. The second gear portion 231B of the second rotating member 23B and the first gear portion 211B of the first rotating member 21B are not in mesh with each other.

The connecting member 24B is a belt, and the inner edge of the linking member 24B is formed with a gear structure. The linking member 24B is simultaneously sleeved on the first gear portion 211B of the first rotating member 21B and the second rotating member 23B. The gear portion 231B and the gear structure of the link member 24B are simultaneously meshed with the first gear portion 211B and the second gear portion 231B.

The rotatable camera module 1B rotates the driving shaft 221B of the driving member 22B to rotate the second rotating member 23B, and the second rotating member 23B rotates while driving the second rotating member 23B by the linking member 24B. A rotating member 21B is rotated so that the lens 13B of the camera body 10B is turned back and forth with the rotation axis of the driving unit 20B as an axis.

The above description is only an illustration of the creation of the creation, and is not intended to limit the scope of the creation. The scope of the claims claimed herein is based on the scope of the patent application, and is not limited to The above embodiment. Any equivalents of the above-disclosed technical contents may be modified or modified to equivalent variations, without departing from the scope of the present invention. The content of the technical solution, any simple modification, equivalent change and modification of the above embodiment according to the technical essence of the present invention are still within the scope of the technical solution of the present invention.

1‧‧‧ Rotatable camera module

10‧‧‧ camera body

11‧‧‧Previous shooting surface

12‧‧‧ Connection surface

13‧‧‧ lens

20‧‧‧Drive unit

21‧‧‧First rotating part

211‧‧‧First gear department

212‧‧‧ affixed

22‧‧‧ Drives

23‧‧‧Second rotating parts

231‧‧‧Second gear department

Claims (8)

A rotatable camera module, comprising: a camera body, comprising a front shooting surface, a connecting surface and a lens, wherein the front shooting surface is connected to the connecting surface, the lens is mounted on the front shooting surface; a driving unit, the driving unit is mounted on a connecting surface of the camera body, and the driving unit has a rotating shaft transversely extending through the camera body, and the camera body is selectively flipped back and forth with the rotating shaft as an axis . The rotatable camera module of claim 1, wherein the driving unit comprises a first rotating member, a second rotating member and a driving member, and the first rotating member is mounted on the connecting surface of the camera body. The second rotating member is mounted on the driving member, and the driving member is rotated by the second rotating member interlocking the first rotating member. The rotatable camera module of claim 2, wherein the first rotating member is a first gear, the second rotating member is a second gear, and the second gear train is in mesh with the first gear. The rotatable camera module of claim 3, wherein the first gear has a first gear portion and an attachment surface, the first gear portion is located on an outer side edge of the first gear, the first gear The portion is connected to the attachment surface, the attachment surface is fixed on the connection surface of the camera body; the second gear has a second gear portion, and the second gear portion is located on the outer edge of the second gear, the The two gear portions are in mesh with the first gear portion, and a rotation axis of the driving unit is perpendicular to the attachment surface. The rotatable camera module of claim 2, wherein the first rotating member is a worm gear, and the second rotating member is a worm, the worm is in mesh with the worm wheel. The rotatable camera module of claim 5, wherein the worm wheel has a first worm wheel portion and an attachment surface, the first worm wheel portion is located on an outer side edge of the worm wheel, the first worm wheel portion and the sticker The affixing surface is fixed to the connecting surface; the worm has a first worm portion, the first worm portion and the first worm wheel portion are in mesh with each other, and the rotating shaft of the driving unit is perpendicular to the affixing surface . The rotatable camera module of claim 2, wherein the first rotating member is a first gear, the second rotating member is a second gear, and the driving unit further comprises a belt, and the belt is simultaneously sleeved And on the first gear and the second gear. The rotatable camera module of claim 7, wherein the first gear has a first gear portion and an attachment surface, the first gear portion is located on an outer side edge of the first gear, the first gear The portion is connected to the attachment surface, the attachment surface is fixed on the connection surface of the camera body; the second gear has a second gear portion, and the second gear portion is located on the outer edge of the second gear, the belt At the same time, the first gear portion and the second gear portion are sleeved, and the belt system simultaneously meshes with the first gear portion and the second gear portion, and the rotation axis of the driving unit is perpendicular to the attachment surface.