US 11,815,790 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. 17/110,338.
Application 17/110,338 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 2021/0088880 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G03B 17/04 (2021.01); G03B 3/02 (2021.01); G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/64 (2006.01)
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)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A folded camera, comprising:
a movable lens positioned in an optical path between an optical path folding element (OPFE) and an image sensor, wherein the OPFE folds light from a first direction to a second direction and wherein the lens has a lens optical axis parallel to the second direction and a lens height substantially aligned with the first direction;
a shield partially surrounding the lens and having a shield thickness, wherein the shield is part of an actuator and includes top and bottom parts with respective top and bottom surfaces that lie in planes that are substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and wherein one of the shield top or bottom parts has a respective opening; and
a lid having a first lid thickness and covering the opening in the shield,
wherein the folded camera has a camera height substantially equal to a sum of the lens height, the first lid thickness, the shield thickness, the size of a first air gap between a first point on a surface of the lens facing the lid and the size of a second air gap being between a second point on a surface of the lens diametrically opposed to the first point and facing the shield,
wherein the respective opening is opposite the surface of the movable lens facing the lid.