US 11,809,065 B2
Compact folded camera
Itay Jerby, Netanya (IL); Itay Yedid, Karme Yosef (IL); Gal Avivi, Haifa (IL); Ephraim Goldenberg, Ashdod (IL); Gil Bachar, Tel-Aviv (IL); and Gal Shabtay, Tel-Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Corephotonics Ltd., Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed by Corephotonics Ltd., Tel-Aviv (IL)
Filed on Dec. 3, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/110,344.
Application 17/110,344 is a continuation of application No. 16/332,946, granted, now 10,884,321, previously published as PCT/IB2017/058403, filed on Dec. 26, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/445,271, filed on Jan. 12, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0088882 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G03B 17/04 (2021.01); G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/64 (2006.01); G03B 3/02 (2021.01)
CPC G03B 17/04 (2013.01) [G02B 13/0035 (2013.01); G02B 27/646 (2013.01); G03B 3/02 (2013.01); G03B 2215/0507 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for assembling a folded camera, comprising:
a) providing an actuator for the folded camera, the actuator having a shield;
b) inserting a lens of the folded camera into the actuator through an opening in the shield, the lens having a lens optical axis;
c) inserting an optical path folding element (OPFE) into the actuator, wherein the OPFE folds light arriving from a first direction to a second direction, wherein the top surface of the shield faces the light from the first direction and wherein the lens optical axis is substantially parallel to the second direction;
d) covering the shield opening with a lid; and
e) attaching an image sensor of the folded camera to the actuator such that it lies in a plane substantially perpendicular to the optical axis.