US 12,235,508 B2
Electronic device including camera module
Seungyong Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Jul. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/224,663.
Application 18/224,663 is a continuation of application No. 16/842,975, filed on Apr. 8, 2020, granted, now 11,709,334, issued on Jul. 25, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0051288 (KR), filed on May 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0358993 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 7/02 (2021.01); G02B 7/04 (2021.01); G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); G02B 7/08 (2021.01)
CPC G02B 7/021 (2013.01) [G02B 7/022 (2013.01); G02B 7/04 (2013.01); G02B 13/001 (2013.01); G03B 30/00 (2021.01); H04M 1/0264 (2013.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); G02B 7/08 (2013.01); G02B 13/004 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a housing including a transparent cover having a camera-exposed region formed therein;
a display having a through-hole formed therein and disposed in an inner space of the housing and visible from outside the electronic device through at least a part of the transparent cover; and
a camera module disposed in the inner space of the housing and including:
a barrel having an opening disposed as substantially aligned with the camera-exposed region; and
a plurality of lenses disposed in an inner space of the barrel,
wherein the plurality of lenses comprises a first lens and a second lens, the first lens disposed closest to the opening and having a first outer diameter at a flange portion thereof, and the second lens disposed under the first lens farthest away from the opening among the plurality of lenses,
wherein the barrel includes:
a head portion disposed as at least partially protruding in the through-hole of the display toward the transparent cover, the head portion forming the opening and having a second outer diameter; and
a body portion at least partially accommodating the second lens, the body portion extended from a bottom part of the head portion such that a third outer diameter of the body portion is greater than the second outer diameter, and that a first engaging portion for the first lens is formed on an inner surface of the body portion,
wherein the first outer diameter of the first lens is greater than the second outer diameter of the head portion,
wherein the second outer diameter of the head portion is less than the diameter of the through-hole, and
wherein the diameter of the through-hole is less than the first outer diameter of the first lens,
wherein the first lens includes:
a lens portion is configured to be exposed to the opening; and
a connecting portion is configured to connect the lens portion and the flange portion, the connecting portion being inclined at an angle in a first direction away from the lens portion,
wherein the connecting portion forms a portion of an ineffective area of the first lens and is configured to engage to the body portion in the inner space of the barrel.