Design and characterization of miniature auto-focusing voice coil motor actuator for cell phone camera applications

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 155-159

  Liu, Chien Sheng ^a   Lin, Psang Dain ^a   Lin, Po Heng ^b   Ke, Shun Sheng ^b   Chang, Yu Hsiu ^b   Horng, Ji Bin ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Actuators; Cameras; Linear motors; Self focusing; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CAMERAS; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FOCUSING; POSITION CONTROL;

AUTO-FOCUSING; CELL PHONE CAMERA; CLOSED-LOOP FEEDBACK; DEVICE SIZES; FEEDBACK SIGNAL; FOCUSING ACTUATORS; HALL ELEMENTS; SELF-FOCUSING; SIMULATION; VOICE-COIL MOTOR ACTUATORS;

LINEAR MOTORS;

EID: 85167482655     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.2006564     Document Type: Article

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