US 11,982,924 B2
Camera module
Ah Hyeon Im, Suwon-si (KR); Ta Kyoung Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Jung Woo Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Kyeong Jun Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jae Hyuk Kim, Suwon-si (KR); and Do Seop Hwang, 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 Aug. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/397,014.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0127467 (KR), filed on Sep. 29, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0010811 (KR), filed on Jan. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0099947 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 7/02 (2021.01); G02B 7/08 (2021.01); G02B 7/09 (2021.01); G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/64 (2006.01); G03B 5/00 (2021.01); G03B 13/36 (2021.01); G03B 17/17 (2021.01)
CPC G03B 17/17 (2013.01) [G02B 7/021 (2013.01); G02B 7/08 (2013.01); G02B 7/09 (2013.01); G02B 13/0065 (2013.01); G02B 27/646 (2013.01); G03B 5/00 (2013.01); G03B 13/36 (2013.01); G03B 2205/0007 (2013.01); G03B 2205/0046 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera module comprising:
a housing;
a lens holder configured to move in the housing in an optical axis direction; and
a lens barrel coupled to the lens holder,
wherein the lens holder comprises a first support structure extending from one side surface in the optical axis direction; and a second support structure located on a side surface opposite to the first support structure and extending in the optical axis direction, and wherein the first support structure comprises an extension protruding beyond the second support structure in the optical axis direction.