Patent ID: 8698951
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G02B,G02F,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera module comprising: a lens barrel mounted with a camera lens; a housing including an exposing hole and guide portions formed on the top thereof, the exposing hole being opposite to the camera lens; a printed circuit board fixed to the housing; and a liquid crystal (LC) lens module including an LC (liquid crystal) lens and guided to the guide portions of the housing to thereby be coupled to the housing so that the LC lens is positioned on the same axis as the center of the camera lens, wherein the LC lens module includes: the LC lens having liquid crystal layers of which an arrangement is controlled by an application of voltage; and an LC lens module body having the LC lens coupled thereto and a contact pin portion electrically connected to the printed circuit board, wherein the LC lens module body includes fixing grooves corresponding to the guide portions of the housing and further includes a flexible connecting portion positioned at the side of the housing to allow the extended direction of the LC lens module body to be switched such that the LC lens is positioned on top of the housing, corresponding to the camera lens, and the contact pin portion is in contact with the printed circuit board.