US 12,105,278 B2
Spacer and camera module
Dong Shin Yang, Suwon-si (KR); In Gun Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Sot Eum Seo, Suwon-si (KR); and Ju Sung Park, 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. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/898,979.
Application 17/898,979 is a continuation of application No. 16/774,132, filed on Jan. 28, 2020, granted, now 11,460,692.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0138576 (KR), filed on Nov. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0413282 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 7/02 (2021.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 27/0018 (2013.01) [G02B 7/021 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A spacer, comprising:
an outer circumferential surface configured to be in contact with a lens barrel; and
an inner circumferential surface forming a hole;
wherein a first length of the hole in a first direction, intersecting an optical axis, and a second length of the hole in a second direction, intersecting the optical axis are different from each other,
wherein a first distance from the outer circumferential surface to the inner circumferential surface, extended in the first direction, is less than a second distance from the outer circumferential surface to the inner circumferential surface, extended in the second direction along an entire thickness of the spacer in an optical axis direction, and
wherein the inner circumferential surface comprises a plurality of inclination portions having different slopes with respect to the optical axis.