Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Passive damping solution to optical image stabilization for voice coil motors
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Application No.: US15893530Application Date: 2018-02-09
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Publication No.: US10302961B2Publication Date: 2019-05-28
- Inventor: Scott W. Miller , Aurelien R. Hubert , Ryan J. Dunn , Douglas S. Brodie
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kkowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Robert C. Kowert
- Main IPC: H04N5/228
- IPC: H04N5/228 ; H04N5/225 ; G02B27/64 ; H04N5/232 ; G02B7/02 ; F16F15/02

Abstract:
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an optics assembly housing an optics component. In some embodiments, the optics assembly is configured to move within the apparatus. In some embodiments, the optics assembly is suspended by a plurality of wires on a base component of the apparatus. In some embodiments, one or more passive dampers disposed around the plurality of wires. In some embodiments, the passive dampers are configured to passively dampen motions of the optics assembly within the apparatus, and each of the one or more passive dampers radially surrounds a portion of a length of a respective one of the plurality of wires over a portion of the length of the respective one of the plurality of wires.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180246342A1 PASSIVE DAMPING SOLUTION TO OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION FOR VOICE COIL MOTORS Public/Granted day:2018-08-30
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