Patent ID: 7830626

Claim:
A lens actuator comprising: a lens barrel for accommodating the lens, a coil wrapped around the lens barrel, a plurality of magnets, a bracket for mounting the magnets thereon and accommodating the lens barrel therein, and a resilient plate connected between the bracket and the lens barrel to hold the lens barrel on the bracket, wherein the resilient plate comprises a plate shaped body, a through hole defined in the center of the plate shaped body, a plurality of slots defined in the plate shaped body and, the slots cooperatively surrounding the through hole, wherein each of the slots includes a first substantially straight slot portion, a second substantially straight slot portion and a third substantially straight slot portion, the second substantially straight slot portion interconnect between and substantially perpendicular to the first and second substantially straight slot portions, the slots being oriented about 90 degrees with respect to each other, wherein the resilient plate further comprises a plurality of pinholes defined in the periphery portion of the plate shaped body, the bracket comprises a plurality of first positioning pins corresponding to the pinholes and protruded out from the bracket, and the resilient plate is fastened to the bracket by engagement of the pinholes with the respective first positioning pins.