US 11,914,218 B2
Camera module
Sang Hyun Lee, Seoul (KR); Jung Hoo Seo, Seoul (KR); and Dae Hwan Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG INNOTEK CO., LTD., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG INNOTEK CO., LTD., Seoul (KR)
Filed on May 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/870,218.
Application 16/870,218 is a continuation of application No. 15/753,125, granted, now 10,684,444, previously published as PCT/KR2016/009001, filed on Aug. 17, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2015-0115467 (KR), filed on Aug. 17, 2015; and application No. 10-2015-0119105 (KR), filed on Aug. 24, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2020/0271889 A1, Aug. 27, 2020
Int. Cl. G03B 17/02 (2021.01); G02B 7/02 (2021.01); H05B 3/84 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); H04N 23/00 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01)
CPC G02B 7/028 (2013.01) [G02B 27/00 (2013.01); G02B 27/0025 (2013.01); G03B 17/02 (2013.01); H04N 23/00 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H05B 3/84 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera module, comprising:
a lens including an incident surface upon which an outside light is incident and a light emitting surface to emit the light having passed the incident surface, wherein the lens comprises a plurality of lenses;
a heating layer disposed on and in physical contact with a surface of the lens to generate heat when power is supplied thereto, comprising two or more heating layer units spaced apart from each other;
a heating wire, which is positioned on a surface of the lens or of the heating layer, configured to generate heat when a current is supplied thereto from an external power supply, comprising two or more heating wire units spaced apart from each other and being electrically connected to the heating layer; and
a lens barrel accommodating some of the plurality of lenses;
wherein the two or more heating layer units and the two or more heating wire units are disposed alternately in an interleaved pattern, and bottom surfaces of the two or more heating layer units and bottom surfaces of the two or more heating wire units are disposed on a same surface;
wherein the heating layer and the heating wire are disposed on a surface of an outermost lens closest to a subject among the plurality of lenses, and
wherein the outermost lens is located above the lens barrel and is exposed to the outside.