Patent 7446965 was granted and assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute on November, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
This invention discloses an optical focusing device including a body, a sleeve pivotally connected to the body, a lens screwedly engaged with the sleeve, and a piezoelectric actuator fixedly disposed in the body for contacting and driving the sleeve to rotate. The body and the lens are provided with first and second guiding portions respectively for positioning and sliding, so as to drive the sleeve to rotate and thereby actuate focusing of the lens. The optical focusing device is structurally simple and configured to increase a driving force.