	US 12,474,507 B2
	Lens, lens assembly, and mobile electronic device
Tae Kyung Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Ji Hye Nam, Suwon-si (KR); Hye Lee Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jong Hyouk Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jong Won Yun, Suwon-si (KR); Seong Ho Eom, Suwon-si (KR); Seong Chan Park, Suwon-si (KR); and Yong Joo Jo, 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 May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/750,643.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0092980 (KR), filed on Jul. 15, 2021; and application No. 10-2022-0016935 (KR), filed on Feb. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0022852 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 1/115 (2015.01); G02B 1/18 (2015.01)

CPC G02B 1/115 (2013.01) [G02B 1/18 (2015.01)]

32 Claims

1. A lens, comprising:

a lens unit;

an uneven layer disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the lens unit;

a buffer layer covering the uneven layer and having a shape conforming to an uneven surface of the uneven layer; and

a water-repellent layer covering the buffer layer,

wherein the uneven layer has a reflectivity of 0.2 or less in the visible light region at least in a range of 400 nm to 780 nm,

wherein the uneven layer comprises an uneven structure having an irregular shape, and

wherein the uneven layer comprises a cavity, edges of the cavity are comprised of the uneven structure, and the uneven structure surrounds the cavity.