Patents Examined by Evelyn A. Lester
  • Patent number: 11156805
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with small telephoto ratio and excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of the downsizing, the low-profileness and the low F-number. An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, a fifth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and a sixth lens having a convex surface facing the image side, and a below conditional expression is satisfied: 0.60<TTL/f<1.00 where TTL: a total track length, and f: a focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventor: Hisao Fukaya
  • Patent number: 11156807
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.00?f1/f?1.50; 25.00?R5/d5?35.03, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; R11 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the sixth lens; and d11 denotes an on-axis thickness of the sixth lens. The camera optical lens can achieve a high imaging performance while obtaining a low TTL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen Sun, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11150442
    Abstract: A zoom lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group having positive power; a second lens group having negative power; a third lens group having positive power; a fourth lens group having negative power; a fifth lens group having positive power; and a sixth lens group having power. During zooming from wide angle extremity to telephoto extremity, the distance between respective lens groups changes. The fifth lens group is composed of at most two lens elements, at least one of which is a concave meniscus lens element having a convex surface facing the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Genki Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11150387
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a planar metalens and a cover glass including the planar metalens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jonghwa Shin, Taeyong Chang
  • Patent number: 11143851
    Abstract: A variable magnification optical system comprising, in order from an object side, a first lens group having negative refractive power, a first intermediate lens group having positive refractive power, a second intermediate lens group having negative refractive power and a rear lens group; upon varying a magnification from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the first intermediate lens group being varied, a distance between the first intermediate lens group and the second intermediate lens group being varied, and a distance between the second intermediate lens group and the rear lens group being varied; the rear lens group comprising at least one focusing lens group which is moved upon carrying out focusing from an infinitely distant object to a closely distant object; and predetermined conditional expressions being satisfied, thereby the focusing lens group(s) being reduced in weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Kosuke Machida
  • Patent number: 11143848
    Abstract: The invention consists of a fixed focal length objective lens forming an image of an object with a plurality of lens elements and an aperture stop (114), wherein the aperture stop (114) defines an aperture stop proximity space (118) and at least one field proximity space (120, 122). The objective lens comprises at least three aspherical surfaces (124, 126, 128, 130) of a lens element. Either two aspherical surfaces (128, 130) are positioned in the aperture stop proximity space (118) and at least one aspherical surface (124, 126) is positioned in a field proximity space (120, 122). Or at least one aspherical surface (128, 130) is positioned in the aperture stop proximity space (118) and two aspherical surfaces (124, 126) are positioned in a field proximity space (120, 122). This distribution of aspherical surfaces provides for means of optimally correction aberrations leading to a very high level of aberration correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Austrian Capital Management GmbH
    Inventor: Aurelian Dodoc
  • Patent number: 11143852
    Abstract: To attain the above-described objective, a zoom lens according to the present invention includes sequentially from an object side, a front group which includes at least three lens groups and has positive refractive power as a whole, and a lens group disposed on an image side of the front group, a magnification is changed by a change of a distance on an optical axis between adjacent lens groups, the lens group includes sequentially from an image side, a lens component, a lens component, and a lens component, the lens group is moved to an object side at a time of changing a magnification from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, focusing is obtained by movement of a part of lens groups in the front group along an optical axis, and a predetermined condition expression is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hisayuki Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11137585
    Abstract: A lens module is provided, including: a lens barrel including first and second barrel walls; and a set of lenses received in the lens barrel and including at least a first lens and a second lens arranged from an object side to an image side. The first lens includes a first optical portion and a first peripheral portion surrounding the first optical portion. A surface of the first barrel wall close to the image side includes a first planar surface extending horizontally towards an optical axis from a position where the first barrel wall is connected to the second barrel wall; a first oblique surface extending obliquely from the first planar surface towards the optical axis and towards the image side; and a second planar surface extending horizontally from the first oblique surface towards the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jie Ma
  • Patent number: 11131835
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of the wide field of view, the low-profileness and the low F-number. An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a second lens having negative refractive power near the optical axis, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens with the negative refractive power having a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein an image-side surface of the fifth lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Inventor: Huang Yunbai
  • Patent number: 11125982
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element having refracting power arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side is provided. Twice of an Abbe number of the fourth lens element is greater than a sum of an Abbe number of the second lens element, an Abbe number of the third lens element, and an Abbe number of the fifth lens element. Other optical imaging lenses are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia-Sin Jhang, Maozong Lin, JianPeng Li
  • Patent number: 11119295
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens has six lens elements. A periphery region of the image-side surface of the first lens element is concave, an periphery region of the object-side surface of the third lens element is concave, an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave, a periphery region of the object-side surface of the sixth lens element is convex, an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave and a periphery region of the image-side surface of the sixth lens element is convex. AAG is a sum of five air gaps, T6 is a thickness of the sixth lens element and the Abbe number of the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth is ?2, ?3, ?4 and ?5 to satisfy ?2+?3+?4+?5?135.000 and AAG/T6?2.900.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia-Sin Jhang, Baina Chen, Ming Yang
  • Patent number: 11119301
    Abstract: The invention relates to an immersion matrix (5), designed for adjusting optical properties at interfaces of optical arrangements, having a porosity with pores of at least one pore size selected from a range from >20 nm to 200 ?m and/or nanopores in the material of the immersion matrix (5), wherein the nanopores have at least one average pore size selected from a range of 0.5 nm to 20 nm, and an elasticity modulus E selected from a range of 0.1-100 MPa. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the immersion matrix (5), an arrangement with the immersion matrix and an immersion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Ohrt, Thomas Kalkbrenner
  • Patent number: 11112586
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens assembly is provided. The optical imaging lens assembly includes, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. The first lens has a positive refractive power, an object-side surface of the first lens is a convex surface; each of the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power; the sixth lens has a positive refractive power; the seventh lens has a negative refractive power; an image-side surface of the first lens, an image-side surface of the third lens, and an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the seventh lens are concave surfaces; and TTL and ImgH satisfy: TTL/ImgH?1.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Biao Xu, Kaiyuan Zhang, Jianke Wenren
  • Patent number: 11106008
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 1.51?f1/f?2.50; 1.70?n7?2.20; ?2.00?f3/f4?2.00; ?10.00?(R13+R14)/(R13?R14)?2.00; and 0.01?d13/TTL?0.08; where f, f1, f3 f4 denote a focal length of the camera optical lens, a focal length of the first lens, a focal length of the third lens, a focal length of the fourth lens respectively; n7 denotes a refractive index of the seventh lens; d13 denotes an on-axis thickness of the seventh lens; TTL donates a total optical length; R13 and R14 denote a curvature radius of an object-side surface and a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the seventh lens respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia Chen, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11106012
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, six lens elements. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region of the object-side surface thereof, and both the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. The fifth lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region of the image-side surface thereof. Both an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 11106020
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a lens module and an electronic device. The lens module includes a lens barrel, a first lens and a second lens accommodated in the lens barrel. The first lens includes a first optical portion and a first supporting portion wound around a periphery of the first optical portion, the second lens includes a second optical portion corresponding to the first optical portion and a second supporting portion wound around a periphery of the second optical portion. An image side of the first supporting portion is provided with a first inclined surface, and an object side of the second supporting portion is provided with a second inclined surface for adhering with the first inclined surface. The lens module of the present disclosure can improve the assembly precision of the first lens and the second lens, and thereby improving the imaging quality of the lens module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ACC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jie Ma
  • Patent number: 11099363
    Abstract: A lens device consists essentially of a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. The first lens is with negative refractive power and includes a convex surface facing an object side and a concave surface facing an image side. The second lens is a biconcave lens with negative refractive power. The third lens is with positive refractive power. The fourth lens includes a concave surface facing the object side. The fifth lens is with refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side. The sixth lens is with refractive power. The seventh lens is with positive refractive power. The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh lenses are arranged in order from the object side to the image side along an optical axis. The third lens and the fourth lens are cemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: SINTAI OPTICAL (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., ASIA OPTICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Bo-Yan Chen, Hsi-Ling Chang
  • Patent number: 11099366
    Abstract: A zoom lens, comprises: in order from an object, a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power; a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group (G4) having negative refractive power; and a fifth lens group (G5) having positive refractive power, wherein, upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between each of lens groups and a lens group adjacent thereto changes to satisfy the following conditional expression: 2.90<|MV5/MV2|<11.50 where, MV5 denotes, upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a moving amount of the fifth lens group with an image surface as a reference; and MV2 denotes, upon zooming from the wide-angle end state to the telephoto end state, a moving amount of the second lens group with the image surface as the reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Saburo Masugi
  • Patent number: 11092790
    Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from an object side, a first lens group, a stop, and a positive second lens group. The second lens group has a negative lens on a side closest to an object and has a single lens or a cemented lens having a positive refractive power on a side closest to an image. Predetermined conditional expressions relating to a back focus, an incidence angle of a principal light ray on the image plane, a maximum image height, a distance from a lens surface on the side closest to the object to a lens surface on the side closest to the image, a distance from an object side principal point of the second lens group to a stop, and a focal length of the second lens group are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Taro Asami
  • Patent number: 11092788
    Abstract: The imaging lens consists of, in order from an object side, a positive first lens group and a positive second lens group. During focusing, the first lens group does not move and the second lens group moves. First and second lenses from an object side in the first lens group are a negative lens. The second lens group consists of a stop disposed on the most object side, two negative lenses, and three or four positive lenses. A lens on the most object side of the second lens group is a negative lens. A lens on the most image side of the second lens group is a positive lens. Predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Okada, Taro Asami