US 11,726,391 B2
Camera module
Seung Hyeon Jeong, Suwon-si (KR); Nam Ki Park, Suwon-si (KR); Yeun Ho Jung, Suwon-si (KR); Young Bok Yoon, Suwon-si (KR); Sung Hoon Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Yoo Chang Kim, Suwon-si (KR); and Jae Hyuk Kim, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/368,106.
Application 17/368,106 is a continuation of application No. 16/365,986, filed on Mar. 27, 2019, granted, now 11,086,195.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0091939 (KR), filed on Aug. 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0333689 A1, Oct. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. G03B 13/34 (2021.01); G02B 7/04 (2021.01); H02K 41/035 (2006.01)
CPC G03B 13/34 (2013.01) [G02B 7/04 (2013.01); H02K 41/0354 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera module comprising:
a housing accommodating a lens module;
a driving unit comprising a magnet disposed on the lens module and a coil disposed to face the magnet;
a yoke disposed to face the magnet;
a first ball member disposed between the lens module and the housing; and
a second ball member disposed between the lens module and the housing,
wherein the housing comprises a first protrusion protruding toward the first ball member and a second protrusion protruding toward the second ban member, and
wherein a length of the first protrusion is different from a length of the second protrusion in an optical axis direction.