Patent Grant
11758255
The present invention relates to optical sensor, and more particularly to a camera module and manufacturing method thereof.
A highly qualified camera is necessary to be installed in a smart device these days. For example, a smart phone is sensing the world by at least one or two cameras for acquiring images. In pursing the thinner smart device, the smaller camera become more completive in marketing sales.
During the arranging processes of conventional camera module, a chip and a plurality of electronic elements are attached on a circuit board firstly, and a holder is formed on the circuit board by attaching or molding, and normally a filter assembly is attached on the holder. Then the optical lens is attached on the filter assembly to remain the optical lens on the light sensitive passage of the chip.
The thickness of the camera module mainly decided by the thickness of the circuit broad, the height of the holder, the thickness of the filter assembly and the height of the optical lens, in this arranging processes. In other words, with the conventional design structure, the height of the camera module is equally same as the sum of the thickness of the circuit broad, the height of the holder, the thickness of the filter assembly and the height of the optical lens, which is highly limitation of development of smaller camera module.
There is an avoiding space remained between the holder and the electronic elements in the conventional camera module. And the filter assembly is mounted on the arms of the holder. The arms mounted with the filter assembly has a minimum thickness, above 0.2 mm. Furthermore, a safety distance between the top surface of the filter assembly and the bottom surface of the optical lens is remained, so that the stacking accumulation in height in conventional camera module causes the difficulty to reduce the height of the holder.
A conventional camera module in a smart phone is disclosed in
Some kinds of the conventional camera module are trying to mount the filter element 21P under the optical assembly 10P directly without the filter supporter 22P to reduce the thickness of the camera module, but the optical assembly 10P is stressed on the filter element 21P directly and the filter element 21P can hardly bare the weight or the movement of the optical assembly 10P when activated in using. Also the glue of mounting the optical assembly 10P is easy to flow into the center of the filter element 21P to cover the transmitting area thereof. These kinds of broken filter elements 21P will cause the whole camera module too difficult to acquire images.
Other kinds of the conventional camera module are trying to attach the filter element 21P on the surface of the sensor 300P or the bottom surface of the lenses of the optical assembly 10P. But it requires more details to attach the filter element 21P on the surface to be like a film on a glass. For example, the flatness between the filter element 21P and the sensor 300P is very hard to ensure and both of the durability of the filter element 21P and the sensor 300P will be adversely effected. Once there is bubbles or wrinkles, the filtering effect of the filter element 21P is reduced and may fail to work so that the quality and reliability of the camera module are reduced.
In fact, the distances between the optical assembly 10P and the filter element 21P and between the filter element 21P and the sensor 300P are essential for the quality of imaging. After reflected by the filter element 21P, stray light goes into the sensor 300P. If the distance between the filter element 21P and the sensor 300P is too short, stray light goes into the center of the sensor 300P which is the sensing area for imaging. If the distance between the filter element 21P and the sensor 300P is a little further, stray light goes into the periphery of the sensor 300P which is easy to be ignored during calculating. So maybe attaching the filter element 21P on the surface of the sensor 300P or the bottom surface of the lenses of the optical assembly 10P can reduce the thickness of the camera module, but the validity of acquiring images has to be reduced, which means the filter element 21P did not achieve the best effect, which is not good enough for smart devices.
The invention is advantageous in that it provides a camera module and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the thickness of the camera module is mainly depended on the height of an optical lens and the thickness of a molded photosensitive assembly to save installation space in a smart device.
Another advantage of the invention is to provide a camera module and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the difficulty and complexity of manufacturing the optical lens and the molded photosensitive assembly are not increased for efficiently producing the small-sized camera module.
Another advantage of the invention is to provide a camera module and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the filter is well supported and has no needs to support the optical lens, so that the optical lens is supported stably without considering about damaging the filter.
Another advantage of the invention is to provide a camera module and manufacturing method thereof, wherein a lens glue adhered between the optical lens and the molded photosensitive assembly is away from the filter to keep the transmitting area of the filter to be uncovered.
Another advantage of the invention is to provide a camera module and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the distance between the filter and the optical lens is ensured to have less stray light into a photosensitive chip molded in the molded photosensitive assembly in order to enhance imaging quality.
Another advantage of the invention is to provide a camera module and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the distance between the filter and the photosensitive chip is ensured to have less stray light into the center of the photosensitive chip in order to increase imaging quality.
Another advantage of the invention is to provide a camera module and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the photosensitive chip can hardly be stressed by the filter and be capable of having better sensing ability.
Another advantage of the invention is to provide a camera module and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the optical lens is directly supported by the molded photosensitive assembly so that the optical lens has a strong support.
Another advantage of the invention is to provide a camera module and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the molded photosensitive assembly provide a higher support for the optical lens and a lower support for the filter so that the optical lens and the filter are stably supported while the interfere between the optical lens and the filter is avoided effectively.
Another advantage of the invention is to provide a camera module and manufacturing method thereof, wherein the optical lens is capable of mounting on the molded photosensitive assembly to fit the peripheral shape of the smart device so that the imaging ability is ensured with better looking appearance.
Additional advantages and features of the invention will become apparent from the description which follows, and may be realized by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particular point out in the appended claims.
According to the present invention, the foregoing and other objects and advantages are attained by a camera module comprising:
an optical lens;
a filter; and
a molded photosensitive assembly adhered with the optical lens and the filter, wherein the molded photosensitive assembly comprises a main body, a plurality of electronic components, a photosensitive chip, and a circuit board connected with the electronic components and the photosensitive chip, wherein the electronic components, the photosensitive chip and the circuit board are positionally fixed with each other surrounded by the main body, wherein the main body comprises a container body supporting the optical lens thereon and a lower body supporting the filter thereon, wherein the photosensitive chip is surrounded by a bottom of the main body to keep a distance away from the filter.
Still further objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the ensuing description and drawings.
These and other objectives, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, the accompanying drawings, and the appended claims.
The following description is disclosed to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the present invention. Preferred embodiments are provided in the following description only as examples and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art. The general principles defined in the following description would be applied to other embodiments, alternatives, modifications, equivalents, and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
The present invention provides a camera module, as shown in
The filter 20 is mounted on the molded photosensitive assembly 30 at a lower place than where the optical assembly 10 is mounted on the molded photosensitive assembly 30, as shown in
Furthermore, in the embodiment, the photosensitive chip 33 is preferably fixed at the bottom of the molded photosensitive assembly 30. The optical assembly 10 is adhered on the top of the molded photosensitive assembly 30. And with the filter 20 is adhered between the optical assembly 10 and the photosensitive chip 33, the molded photosensitive assembly 30 is supporting the optical assembly 10 and the filter 20 with stable supporting force.
The optical assembly 10 comprises a lens-barrel 11 and a plurality of lenses 12 mounted therein. And the lens-barrel 11 comprises a leg 111 supported the lenses 12 away from the filter 20. The leg 111 of the lens barrel 11 is fixed on the molded photosensitive assembly 30 to support the lenses 12 in distance from the filter 20 and the photosensitive chip 33 to have imaging lights transmitted in required quality.
The filter 20 comprises a filtering portion 21 transmitted imaging light and a peripheral portion 22 extended from the filtering portion 21 and supported on the molded photosensitive assembly 30 so as to align the filtering portion 21 with the photosensitive chip 33. It is worth to mention that the filter glue 220 is between the peripheral portion 22 and the photosensitive assembly 30 which is not covering the filtering portion 21 and the photosensitive chip 33 of the molded photosensitive assembly 30. And the peripheral portion 22 of the filter 20 is directly supported on the molded photosensitive assembly 30 without any external supporting device. Especially, in one embodiment of the present invention, the peripheral portion 22 is integrally extended from the filtering portion 21, and the peripheral portion 22 is positioned to surround the filtering portion 21, so that the filter 20 is a one-piece element for easily being fixed in the supporting cavity 300 of the molded photosensitive assembly 30.
Especially, the molded photosensitive assembly 30 further comprises a main body 31, a plurality of electronic components 32 and a circuit board 35. The photosensitive chip 33 is electrically connected with the electronic components 32 through the circuit board 35. The main body 31 is embedding the electronic components 32 on the circuit board and forms the supporting cavity 300 to hold the filter 20 and the optical assembly 10 with a distance therebetween. In other words, the main body 31 covers part of the electronic components 32 and the circuit board 35, wherein the photosensitive chip 33 is surrounded by the bottom of the main body 31 and kept a distance with the filter 20.
In this embodiment, the photosensitive chip 33 is connected to the circuit board 35 with a set of wires 34. One end of the wire 34 is fixed on the circuit board 35, while the other end of the wire 34 is fixed on the photosensitive chip 33. One skilled in the art will understand that the photosensitive chip 33 is transferred light into images with connected electronic components 32 on the circuit board 35. The main body 31 is partly covered on the photosensitive chip 33 to fixed photosensitive chip 33 and the wires 34 on the circuit board 35 inside the main body 31. In other words, the wires 34 and the periphery of the photosensitive chip 33 are fully covered inside the main body 31 of the molded photosensitive assembly 30 to be protected. And the photosensitive chip 33 is surrounded with the electronic components 32, as shown in
Furthermore, the top of the periphery of the main body 31 is supporting the optical assembly 10 which is away from the filter 20 and the photosensitive chip 33 so that the filter 20 and photosensitive chip 33 are not under the stress of the optical assembly 10. Preferably, not only the places of the electronic components 32, the photosensitive chip 33 and the filter 20 are settled by the main body 31, the size of the main body 10 and the distance between the main body 10 and the filter 20 are designed accordingly for enhancing compactness, stability and reliably of the camera module and the detail numbers are disclosed in the following paragraphs. It is worth to mention that the drawings only illustrate positional relationships of the optical assembly 10, the filter 20 and the molded photosensitive assembly 30 without exact size proportion.
Furthermore, as shown in
It is worth to mention that the peripheral bottom surface 223 of the peripheral portion 22 of the filter 20 is adhered by the filter glue 220 to the main body 31 of the molded photosensitive assembly 30, so that the filtering portion 21 is clear to be transmitted the imaging light. And the filtering portion 21 and the peripheral portion 22 have no needs to support anything on the in-light surface 211 or the peripheral top surface 221, which provides more reliability for the filter 20.
Particularly, the main body 31 of the molded photosensitive assembly 30 comprises a container body 311 and a lower body 312 integrally extended from inner side of the container body 311. Both of the container body 311 and the lower body 312 are formed and molded on a connecting surface 350 of the circuit board 35 to cover the electronic components 32, the wires 34 and the photosensitive chip 33. In the first embodiment, the electronic components 32 are mainly embedded inside the container body 311, and the wires 34 and the photosensitive chip 33 are mainly embedded inside the lower body 312. In other embodiments, the electronic components 32 can be embedded under the lower body 312.
Especially, the container body 311 has a certain distance in highest with the lower body 312 to form a square slot inside the main body 31, so that the filter 20 is provided inside the square slot of the main body 31. In other words, the container body 311 has a higher top surface 3111 and a higher side surface 3112, wherein the higher top surface 3111 of the container body 311 is supporting the optical assembly 10 thereon. The lower body 312 has a lower top surface 3121 and a lower side surface 3122, wherein lower top surface 3121 of the lower body 312 is supporting the filter 20 thereon, wherein the higher side surface 3112 of the container body 311 and the lower side surface 3122 of the lower body 312 forms the supporting cavity 300 of the molded photosensitive assembly 30 inwardly. The distance between the higher top surface 3111 of the container body 311 and the connecting surface 350 of the circuit board 35 is larger than the distance between the lower top surface 3121 of the lower body 312 and the connecting surface 350 of the circuit board 35. In other words, the higher side surface 3112 and the lower top surface 3121 are shaped groovedly to receive the filter 20 therein without protruding the filter 20 above the higher top surface 3111. It is appreciated that the container body 311 has a higher outer surface 3113, so as to form the outer surrounding surface of the main body 31.
In this embodiment, as shown in
And the thickness H of the filter glue 220, which has to be considered, is less than 0.03 mm. The thickness of the filter glue 220 is adapted to be reduced with the adhesion strong enough while using a thermosetting glue in this embodiment.
It is worth to mention that the length C of lower top surface 3121 of the lower body 312, which is from the higher side surface 3112 to lower side surface 3122, or can be named as the thickness of the lower body 312, is equal or greater than 0.4 mm, so that with ensuring the container body 311 and the lower body 312 can be L-shaped slotedly, the length C ensures enough mounting area on the lower top surface 3121 of the lower body 312 for the filter 20, which is adapted to allow deviation of mounting the filter 20 to avoid adverse affect. There is enough area on the lower top surface 3121 for the filter glue 220 to draw, which increases the contact area of the filter 20 and the filter glue 220 to improve adhesion of glue.
The filter glue 220 is applied between the peripheral bottom surface 223 of the peripheral portion 22 of the filter 20 and the lower top surface 3121 of the lower body 312 to connect the peripheral portion 22 of the filter 20 with the lower body 312 via the filter glue 220. The filter glue 220 is applied in an approximate square shape which is smaller than an approximate square shape of the lens glue 110.
Preferably, the width of the filter glue 220, between the peripheral bottom surface 223 and the lower top surface 3121 of the lower body 312, has maximum which equally to the width B of the peripheral portion 22 which is equal or greater than 0.25 mm, so that the filter 20 is stably supported on the peripheral portion 22 to ensure enough mounting area on the lower top surface 3121 of the lower body 312 for the filter 20, which is adapted to allow deviation of mounting the filter 20 to avoid adverse effect with the filtering portion 21 aligned to the photosensitive chip 33.
Furthermore, there is a gap between the side of the filter 20 to the inner side of the container body 311 of the main body 31. In other words, the filter 20 is not touching the main body 31 to reduce vibration transferred by the main body 31 from the optical assembly 10. Also the lens glue 110 is away from the in-light surface 211 of the filtering portion 21 because of the gap between the side of the filter 20 to the inner side of container body 311 of the main body 31 can receive the extra lens glue 110 inside, which can effectively prevent the lens glue 110 from flowing on in-light surface 211 of the filtering portion 21. Preferably, the distance A between the peripheral side surface 222 of the peripheral portion 22 of the filter 20 and the higher side surface 3112 of the container body 311 is equal or greater than 0.15 mm, which is beneficial to be aside between the filter 20 and the container body 311, like leaving a space.
It is worth to mention that the lens glue 110 is connected the leg 111 of the lens-barrel 11 and the higher top surface 3111 of the container body 311 of the main body 31 to support the optical assembly 10 mainly on the container body 311 to reduce stress on the photosensitive chip 33. Preferably, the height K of the container body 311 is equal or greater than 0.5 mm, so that the container body 311 covering the electronic components 32 can be effectively molded, and also the electronic components 32 can be protected from being over stressed by the leg 111 of the optical assembly 10. And since the filter 20 is supported on the lower body 312, the filter 20 has no needs to afford the weight and movement of the optical assembly 10 to enhance reliability. Especially, the lens-barrel 11 is directly on the main body 31, so that the thickness of the camera module is decided by the height of the optical assembly 10 and the thickness of the molded photosensitive assembly 30 to reduce the thickness of the whole camera module.
It is worth to mention that, the capacitors of the electronic components 32 normally have biggest size. Therefore, the distance D between the capacitor of the electronic components 32 and the peripheral side surface 222 of the peripheral portion 22 of the filter 20 is preferably equal or greater than 0.2 mm, for avoiding the interference between the manufacturing mold and the electronic components 32 and having enough space to optimize structure between the electronic components 32 and the filter 20, which benefits forming complicate mold structure therebetween to increase function of mold structure. Preferably, the distance D between each of the electronic components 32 and the peripheral side surface 222 of the peripheral portion 22 of the filter 20 is equal or greater than 0.25 mm.
According to the embodiment, the container body 311 and the lower body 312 are also shaped as an approximated square with rounded corners which the inradius F of the inscribed circle of the rounded corners are is equal or greater than 0.3 mm. It is worth to mention that the rounded corners of the container body 311 and the lower body 312 needs to be aside with the filter 20, like leaving a space, to reduce opportunities of interference between the rounded corners of the container body 311 and the lower body 312. Of course, in other embodiments of the present invention, the rounded corners of the container body 311 and the lower body 312 can be designed as the rounded corners of the filter 20.
With the photosensitive chip 33 fixed at the bottom of the lower body 312 of the main body 31, the filter 20 is kept distance with the photosensitive chip 33 by the lower body 312. Preferably, the distance I between the lower top surface 3121 of the lower body 312 and the photosensitive chip 33 is preferred to be equal or greater than 0.15 mm, which ensures the mold structure is thick enough to block stray light reflected from the optical lens, the filter and other structure to reduce useless light and improve the quality of imaging, also can avoid the photosensitive chip 33 from being stressed or broken. Meanwhile, the distance I is equal or greater than 0.15 mm to avoid interference between the manufacturing mold and the wires 34 and prevent exposing the wires 34. It is appreciated that if the rear focal length meets requirement, the distance I can be as large as possible to avoid black point formed by the dirt of the filter 20. Especially, if the distance I between the lower top surface 3121 of the lower body 312 and the photosensitive chip 33 is larger than 0.25 mm. And the capacitor can be placed under the lower body 312 to reduce the size in XY direction of the camera module.
Thus, in this embodiment, the main body 31 is not only covering the electronic components 32 and the wires 34 to protect, but also provide the supporting cavity 300 to hold the optical assembly 10 and the filter 20 respectively without over stressed on the electronic components 32 or the photosensitive chip 33.
It is worth to mention that, on the one hand, in order to improve screen ratio of mobile phone (e.g. smart phone), the fitness between the side surface of the camera module and the side surface of the smart phone is more and more highly required, that is user want the camera module close to the casing of the smart phone. On the other hand, in other to have good touching and holding feelings, the casing of the smart phone has an arc-shaped curve (e.g. curved frame). The side walls of the module of the camera module are generally flush, which causes the flush sidewalls of the camera module to not fit well with the curved outer frame of the smart phone, so that there is a large gap between them, which greatly limits the fitness of the camera module to the smart phone. It can be understood that although the camera module of the present invention can reduce the height of the camera module by reducing the height of the container body 311, it is limited by the height of the electronic component 32 itself. The degree of reduction of the height of the container 311 is limited. Therefore, the fitness between the camera module and the smart phone of the above embodiment of the present invention is still not good enough.
In order to solve above mentioned problems, as shown in
In other words, the optical assembly 10 can be slightly bias placed with the molded photosensitive assembly 30 to adapt the mounting casing 51 of the smart phone. And the optical assembly 10 is capable of being slightly non-aligned with the molded photosensitive assembly 30 to fit the case of the smart device, as shown in
It is worth to mention that when the camera module is mounted on the top side of the mounting casing 51 of the smart device, the leg 111 of the lens-barrel 11 only needs to have a side slightly protruding from the higher top surface 3111 of the container body 311. And when the camera module is mounted on a corner of the mounting casing 51 of the smart device, the legs 111 of the lens-barrel 11 need to have adjacent sides protruded outwardly from the top surface 3111 of the container body 311, so that the camera module is in contact with the corner of the mounting casing 51 of the device.
A manufacturing method of the camera module is illustrated in
I. connecting the photosensitive chip 33 with the wires 34 and the electronic components 32 on the circuit board 35;
II. placing the connected circuit board 35 between an upper mould 41 and a lower mould 42; and
III. embedding the electronic components 32 on the circuit board 35 by the main body 31 which comprises the container body 311 and the lower body 312 to form the molded photosensitive assembly 30.
Furthermore, as shown in
IV. mounting the filter 20 on the lower top surface 3121 of the lower body 312; and
V. mounting the optical assembly 10 on the higher top surface 3111 of the container body 311.
Furthermore, in the step III, the lower top surface of the lower body is lower the higher top surface of the container body, and the lower top surface of the lower body is lower than the highest component of the electronic components 32.
In one embodiment, the electronic components 32, the wires 34 and the periphery of the photosensitive chip 33 is embedded in the main body 31.
Illustratively, as shown in
III.1. injecting molding material between the upper mould 41 and the lower mould 42;
III.2. solidifying molding material to form the main body 31; and
III.3. demolding the upper mould 41 and the lower mould 42 from the molded photosensitive assembly 30.
It is worth to mention that, as shown in
It is worth to mention that the draft angle of the higher side surface 3112 of the lower body 312 is preferably implemented between 5 and 10. In particular, the draft angle of the outer side surface of the container body 311 (ie, the outer side surface of the main body 31) is also implemented to be between 5 and 10, which facilitates the successful completion of the drafting operation after molding.
The step IV, as shown in
IV.1. applying the filter glue 220 in a C-shape on the lower top surface 3121, so that a gap between two ends of the filter glue 220 is formed;
IV.2. mounting the filter 20 on the filter glue 220;
IV.3. solidifying the C-shape filter glue 220; and
IV.4. filling the filter glue 220 into the gap of the C-shape to form the filter glue 220 in an approximate square shape.
Furthermore, as shown in
It is worth to mention that the upper mould 41 is shaped similar as the supporting cavity 300, so that after demolding the upper mould 41, the supporting cavity 300 is formed between the main body 31 and the photosensitive chip 33.
An alternative mode of the embodiment is illustrated as in
The other alternative mode of the embodiment is illustrated as in
The other alternative mode of the embodiment is illustrated as in
It is worth to mention that second embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in
In this embodiment, the filter 20 A is mounted on top of the lower body 312A and the optical assembly 10A is mounted on top of the container body 311A. With the electronic components 32A mainly embedded by the lower body 312A, the electronic components 32A are only stressed under the filter 20A without bearing the weight and movement of the optical assembly 10A, so that the electronic components 32A can have longer service time. It can be understood that, in this embodiment of the invention, the filter 20A is firmly bonded to the lower top surface 3121A of the lower body 312A by the filter glue 220A; the optical assembly 10A passes the lens glue 110A is firmly bonded to the higher top surface 3111A of the container body 311A to ensure the relative positions of the filter 20A and the optical assembly 10A and the photosensitive chip 33A respectively remain unchanged.
It is worth to mention that the height of the different electronic components 32A in the camera module of the present invention may be different, and in order to ensure that the height of the lower body 312A is not too large, the electronic components 32A embedded in the lower body 312A is preferably less than 0.3 mm in height. In other words, in the present invention, an electronic component having a height of less than 0.3 mm is referred to as a low component 321A in the electronic component 32A, and an electronic component having a height of 0.3 mm or more is referred to as a high component 322A in the electronic component 32A. The low component 321A in the electronic components 32A is embedded by the lower body 312A, and the high component 322A in the electronic components 32A is embedded by the container body 311A. It will be appreciated that the low component 321A in the electronic components 32A of the present invention may all be embedded by the lower body 312A (i.e., in the top view direction, all of the low components 321A are disposed on the lower body 312A). Alternatively, the low component 321A in the electronic component 32A may be partially embedded by the lower body 312A (ie, a part of the low component 321A is disposed within the lower body 312A in a top view direction).
More preferably, the periphery of the photosensitive chip 33A is provided with the wires 34A or the electronic component 32A (ie, the low component 321A) embedded in the short body 312A, and the wires 34A and the low components 321A are respectively located on different sides of the photosensitive chip 33A. That is, the wires 34A and the electronic component 32A embedded in the short body 312A are not disposed in order from the inside to the outside surrounding the photosensitive chip 33A. In other words, the low component 321A in the electronic component 32A may be distributed according to the position of the wires 34A, and not all of the sides of the photosensitive chip 33A have the wires 34A, so the low component 321A in the electronic component 32A may preferably be placed on the photosensitive chip 33A one side or both sides without the wires 34A, so that the area of the wiring board can be reduced, the area of the molding in the XY direction can be reduced, and the area of the camera module can be reduced. It should be understood that since the width of the low component 321A in the electronic component 32A is usually about 0.25 mm, which is similar to the thickness of the lower body 312A, if the low component 321A in the electronic component 32A is desired to be integrated into the short body 312A, and the low component 321A in the electronic component 32A can only be disposed on the side of the photosensitive chip 33A where the wires are not provided. That is, the low component 321A in the electronic component 32A is not compatible with the arrangement position of the wires 34A, so that the portion of the short body 312A where the low component 321A is disposed cannot be wiring golded (i.e., the wires 34A cannot be provided).
It is worth to mention that the high component 322A of the electronic component 32A is preferably disposed on the side of the photosensitive chip 33A having the wires 34A, so that the side of the container body 311A on the photosensitive chip 33A without the wires 34A is need not cover the electrical component 32A. That is, the container body 311A does not have to be emptied from the electronic component 32A, and therefore, the thickness of the container body 311A can be reduced, and the thickness of the lower body 312A can be slightly increased. Preferably, the thickness of the container body 311A is smaller than the lower body 312A. The lower body 312A provides larger the lower top surface 3121A to supporting the peripheral portion 22A of the filter 20A than the first embodiment. The filter 20A is stably mounted on the lower body 312A.
The angle G between the higher side surface 3112A and the lower top surface 3121A can be equal or greater than 100° in this embodiment. In other words, the container body 311A is inclinedly extended from the top of the lower body 312A, so that the container body 311A is well supported and capable of supporting the optical assembly 10A without effecting the filter 20A. In other words, the angle G is formed while demolding in manufacturing. Also the lower side surface 3122A is inclinedly with the photosensitive chip 33A, which is similar as the angle G, so as to provide supporting force stably.
In this embodiment, the container body 311A is designed to support the optical assembly 10A. The higher top surface 3111A of the container body 311A is asymmetrical on four sides. In other words, four sides of the higher top surface 3111A of the container body 311A are in different thickness, so that the optical assembly 10A is protruded from less thick portion of the container body 311A, which benefits to improve fitness between the camera module and the mounting casing 51 of the smart device. In other words, in order to fit the mounting casing 51 of the smart device, the portion of the container body 311A near the mounting casing 51 is in less thickness, so that the optical assembly 10A is slightly non-aligned with the molded photosensitive assembly 30A. The optical assembly 10 A is biased to the mounting casing 51, for easily improving the fitness between the camera module and the mounting casing 51 of the smart device. As shown in
A manufacturing method of the camera module in above embodiment comprises steps of:
I. connecting the photosensitive chip 33A with the wires 34A and the electronic components 32A on the circuit board 3A5;
II. placing the connected circuit board 35A between an upper mould and a lower mould; and
III. embedding the electronic components 32A on the circuit board 35A by the main body 31A which comprises the container body 311A and the lower body 312A shorter than the container body 312A, and at least part of the electronic components 32A is embedded under the lower body 312A.
Furthermore, the method further comprises steps of:
IV. mounting the filter 20A on the lower top surface 3121A of the lower body 312A; and
V. mounting the optical assembly 10A on the higher top surface 3111A of the container body 311A.
In one embodiment, the electronic components 32A comprises at least a low component 321A, wherein at least part of the low component 321A is embedded under the lower top surface 3121A of the lower body 312A, and each of the low component 321A is shorter than 0.3 mm.
In one embodiment, the wires 34A is embedded by the lower body 312A, wherein the wires 34A and the low component 321A are all provided surrounding the photosensitive chip 33A, and the wires 34A and the low component 321A are positioned on different sides of the photosensitive chip 33A.
In one embodiment according to the present invention, the thickness of the container body 311A is smaller than that of the lower body 312A at one side thereof, such that the optical assembly 10A is extended from the one side of the container body 311A and protruded beyond the molded photosensitive assembly 30A.
In one embodiment according to the present invention, the electronic components 32A further comprises one or more higher electronic components 322A, wherein the higher electronic components 322A are encapsulated in the container body 311A and the height of the higher electronic component 322A is greater or equal to 0.3 mm.
In one embodiment according to the present invention, the higher electronic components 322A and the wires 34A are located at the same side of the photosensitive chip 33A.
In one embodiment according to the present invention, the angle formed between the higher inner side of the container body 311A and the lower top surface 3121A of the lower body 312A is greater than or equal to 100°.
It is worth mentioning that regarding to the structure of the TOM product, the optical leas 10A of the camera module can be eccentrically provided at the molded photosensitive assembly 30 (30A) for allowing at least one side of the optical assembly 10A outwardly protrudes from the main body 31 (31A) of the molded photosensitive assembly 30 (30A), although the structure of the camera module is designed as the ones illustrated in the
In addition, an assembly cavity should be reserved between the higher side surface 3112 (3112A) of the container body 311 (311A) and the filter 20 (20A), such that the adjusting range of the thickness of the container body 311A (311A) gets very smaller. In other words, the thickness of the container body 311A (311A) is hard to decrease, which is not beneficial to improve the engagement between the camera module and the outer casing of the smart device. In order to solve the above problems, as illustrated in the
In other words, the container body 311B of the molded photosensitive assembly 30B is discontinuous (that is, the top surface of the container body 311B is discontinuous), that comprises the higher top surface 3111B and the lower top surface 3110B lower than the higher top surface 3111B, such that while a portion of the optical assembly 10B is attached to the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B via the lens glue 110B, the other portion of the optical assembly 10B is attached to the lower top surface 3110B thereof via the lens glue 110B.
In certain examples according to the present invention, the lens glue 110B of the camera module may comprises an adhesion layer 1101B and a addition adhesion layer 1102B, wherein the adhesion layer 1101B is applied between the optical assembly 10B and the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B for affixing the optical assembly 10B to the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B via the adhesion layer 1101B. The adhesion layer 1101B is provided between the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B and the optical assembly 10B for affixing the optical assembly 10B to the container body 311B more securely.
Preferably, the lens glue 110 is applied at the container body 311 along the higher top surface 3111B thereof to form the adhesion layer 1101B having a same with shape of the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B, so as to maximize the bonding strength between the optical assembly 10B and the molded photosensitive assembly 30B. After the lens glue 110B is cured and forms the adhesion layer 1101B, additional lens glue 110B is applied between the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B and the optical assembly 10B to form the addition adhesion layer 1102B having a same shape with the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B, such that the addition adhesion layer 1102B is not only able to strengthen the bonding between the optical assembly 10B and the container body 311B, but also able to seal the space between the optical assembly 10B and the container body 311B so as to prevent external contaminant polluting the optical assembly 10B and/or the filter 20B.
It is appreciated that, since the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B is lower than the higher top surface 3111B thereof, the gap formed between the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B and the legs 111B of the optical assembly 10B is larger than the gap formed between the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B and the legs 111B of the optical assembly 10B. In other words, the addition adhesion layer 1102B applied between the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B and the optical assembly 10B is thicker than that applied between the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B and the optical assembly 10B. In this way, the bonding between the optical assembly 10B and the molded photosensitive assembly 30B can be reinforced while the thickness of the container body 311B at the lower top surface 3110B can be decreased for improving the engaging between the camera mould and the outer casing of the smart device.
More specifically, as shown in the
Preferably, the adhesion layer 1101B of the lens glue 110B may have a U-shape matching with the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B. The addition adhesion layer 1102B of the lens glue 110B may have a linear shape matching with the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B. In this way, the adhesion layer 1101B and the addition adhesion layer 1102B are incorporated with each other to form the lens glue 110 with an open-mouth shape, so as to seal the space between the optical assembly 10B and the molded photosensitive assembly 30B for preventing external contaminant polluting the optical assembly 10B and/or the filter 20B.
It is worth mentioning that in certain examples according to the present invention, the electronic components 321B, because of its larger height, is suitable to be encapsulated in the main body 31B and located below the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B. In other words, the electronic components 321B are suitable to arrange at three sides of the photosensitive chip 33B and corresponding to the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B.
Further, the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B is aligned with the lower top surface 3121B of the lower body 312B. In other words, the container body 311 has a height at the lower top surface 3110B thereof equal to the height of the lower body 312B. In this way, there is no need to reserve an avoiding space for filter 20B at the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B and the thickness of the container body 311 at the lower top surface 3110B thereof can be decreased, so that the optical assembly 10B is more outwardly protruded from the lower top surface 3110B of the container body container body 311, for improving the engagement between the camera module and the outer casing of the smart device.
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The manufacturing method of the camera module is illustrated in
I. connecting the photosensitive chip 33B with the wires 34B and the electronic components 32B on the circuit board 35B;
II. placing the connected circuit board 35B between an upper mould 41B and a lower mould 42B;
III. embedding the electronic components 32B on the circuit board 35B in the main body 31B which comprises the container body 311B and the lower body 312B to form the molded photosensitive assembly 30B;
IV. mounting the filter 20B on the lower top surface 3121B of the lower body 312B; and
V. biased mounting the optical assembly 10B on the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311, so that the optical assembly 10B is closed to at least one side of a mounting casing 51.
Furthermore, the step V further comprises steps of:
V.1 fixing the optical assembly 10B with the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B;
V.2 firming the optical assembly 10B on the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B, wherein the lower top surface 3110B is shorter than the higher top surface 3111B.
In one embodiment, the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B in step III is U-shaped, so that the optical assembly is supported on the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B on three sides, and on lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B on one side.
In one embodiment, lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B is extended from one of the higher side surface 3112B of the container body 311B to the other higher side surface 3112B.
It is worth to mention that, in step V.1, applying the lens glue 110B on the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B, to form a adhesion layer 1101B between the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311 B and the optical assembly 10B.
Furthermore, the step V.2 further comprises steps of:
V.21 placing the optical assembly 10B and the molded photosensitive assembly 30B upside down to position the optical assembly 10B under the molded photosensitive assembly 30B; and
V.22 applying the lens glue 110B between the leg 111B of the optical assembly 10 B and the lower top surface 3110 B of the container body 311B, to form an addition adhesion layer 1102B
With the optical assembly 10B and the molded photosensitive assembly 30B are upside down, the lens glue 110B has no chance to flow into the in-light surface 211B of the filtering portion 21B so that the filter 20B is maintained clear and well supported.
In one embodiment, the adhesion layer is U-shaped, and the addition fixing layer 1102B is straight line shaped.
In one embodiment, the adhesion layer is L-shaped, and the addition fixing layer 1102B is L-shaped.
In particular, in an embodiment of the invention, the angle between the high side surface 3112B of the container body 311B and the lower top surface 3121B of the lower body 312B is between 95° and 100°.
It is worth mentioning that when the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B is U-shaped, the lower top surface 3110B of the container body 311B will be linear and located one side of the main body 31B, such that the optical assembly 10B of the camera module can protrude outward from the side where the lower top surface 3110B to outside of the molded photosensitive member 30B, contributing the optical assembly 10B extremely close to the mounting casing of the smart device on the side of the lower top surface 3110B, such that the camera module is adapted to be mounted to a non-corner region of the mounting casing to be unilaterally adjacent to the mounting casing. However, when the camera module is mounted on a corner area of the mounting casing of the smart device, the optical assembly 10B cannot be on both sides at the same time close to the mounting casing because the optical assembly 10B is only on one side of the lower top surface 3110B of the main body 31B, resulting in insufficient fitness between the camera module and the mounting casing.
Therefore, in order to solve the above problems, the present invention further provides another alternative embodiment of the camera module, as shown in
Preferably, the adhesion layer 1101B of the lens glue 110B may be L-shaped to match the higher top surface 3111 B of the container body 311B. The addition adhesion layer 1102B of the lens glue 110B may also be L-shaped to match the lower top surface 3112B of the container body 312B. The adhesion layer 1101B and the addition adhesion layer 1102 B are combined to form the lens glue 110B having a square-shaped structure to seal a space between the optical assembly 10B and the molded photosensitive member 30B to prevent external dust from entering and contaminating the optical assembly 10B and/or the filter 20B.
It is worth to mention that, in some embodiments of the present invention, the electronic components 321B are adapted to be embedded by the container body 311B of the main body 31B due to a large height, and is located under the higher top surface 3111B of the container body 311B. In other words, the electronic components 321B are adapted to be disposed on both sides of the photosensitive chip 33B, and the electronic components 321 B are corresponded to the upper top surface 3111B of the container body 311B.
One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting.
It will thus be seen that the objects of the present invention have been fully and effectively accomplished. The embodiments have been shown and described for the purposes of illustrating the functional and structural principles of the present invention and is subject to change without departure from such principles. Therefore, this invention includes all modifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the following claims.
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This application is a Continuation application that claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 120 to a non-provisional application, application Ser. No. 16/547,537, filed Aug. 21, 2019, which is a non-provisional application that claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 to Chinese application number 2018109527704, filed Aug. 21, 2018, Chinese application number 2018213515512, filed Aug. 21, 2018, Chinese application number 2019104389172, filed May 24, 2019, Chinese application number 2019207651660, filed May 24, 2019, Chinese application number 2019104392851, filed May 24, 2019, Chinese application number 2019207646893, filed May 24, 2019, Chinese application number 2019104388856, filed May 24, 2019, and Chinese application number 2019207664410, filed May 24, 2019, which are incorporated herewith by references in their entirety.
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