US 12,242,172 B2
Camera module
Jin Se Kim, Suwon-si (KR); So Mi Yang, Suwon-si (KR); and Young Suk Kang, 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 Apr. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/226,395.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0119074 (KR), filed on Sep. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0082903 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G03B 17/12 (2021.01); G02B 7/02 (2021.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01)
CPC G03B 17/12 (2013.01) [G02B 7/022 (2013.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera module, comprising:
a first lens barrel comprising a first support portion supporting a lens accommodated in the first lens barrel on an object side of the first lens barrel; and
a second lens barrel comprising a second support portion supporting a rearmost lens accommodated in the second lens barrel, the second support portion being formed integrally with the second lens barrel and protruding toward an internal space of the second lens barrel and supporting an image-side surface of the rearmost lens,
wherein the first lens barrel and the second lens barrel are configured to be adjustably coupled to each other in an optical axis direction by press-fitting a protrusion and a groove,
wherein a gap is provided between a top surface of the protrusion and a bottom surface of the groove, and
wherein the groove is formed in a lower portion of the first lens barrel, and the protrusion is formed on an upper portion of the second lens barrel.