US 12,242,031 B2
Lens assembly
Dong Shin Yang, Suwon-si (KR); Ju Sung Park, Suwon-si (KR); Ho Sik Yoo, Suwon-si (KR); and Sot Eum Seo, 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 Sep. 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/014,068.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0179878 (KR), filed on Dec. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0199925 A1, Jul. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 7/02 (2021.01)
CPC G02B 13/0045 (2013.01) [G02B 7/021 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A lens assembly, comprising:
a lens having a length in a first direction, perpendicular to an optical axis, shorter than a length in a second direction, perpendicular to both the optical axis and the first direction, on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis; and
a lens barrel accommodating the lens, and having an opening in a side of the lens barrel,
wherein a linear side of the lens facing the first direction is entirely exposed within the opening in the side of the lens barrel.