Having Five Components Patents (Class 359/714)
  • Publication number: 20150070785
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. The first, second, and third lens elements have positive, negative, and negative refractive powers, respectively. The third lens element has an image-side surface having a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the third lens element. The fourth lens element has a concave object-side surface. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface that has a convex portion in a vicinity of an optical axis of the imaging lens, and an image-side surface that has a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the fifth lens element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: KUO-WEN CHANG, Poche Lee, Sheng-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8976466
    Abstract: An imaging optical system smaller than conventional systems yet with well-corrected aberrations, comprises five lenses L1-L5 having refractive powers, in order from the object side: positive, negative, positive, positive, and negative, with an aperture at an endmost object-side position. In one embodiment, L1 is biconvex, L2's object-side surface is convex, L5's object-side surface is convex, and 1.0?f3/f1?4.9, f1 and f3 being the focal lengths of L1 and L3, respectively. In a variant thereof, L2 is a meniscus lens and L5's object-side surface is concave. In another embodiment, L1 is glass, and ?4.0<(r6+r7)/(r6?r7)<?0.51, r6 and r7 being paraxial curvature radii of L3's object-and image-side surfaces, respectively. In another embodiment, L1 is glass, and ?1.5<f2 /f<?0.73, f2 being the focal length of L2 and f the focal length of the whole optical system. In yet another embodiment, L1 is glass, and ?11.2<r3/f1<?0.9, r3 being the paraxial curvature radius of L1's image-side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Otsu, Kenichiro Abe, Yoshihiro Uchida
  • Patent number: 8976454
    Abstract: A variable-magnification projection optical system substantially consists of a negative first lens group that is disposed at the most enlargement-side position and is fixed during magnification change, a positive last lens group that is disposed at the most reduction-side position and is fixed during magnification change, and a plurality of lens groups that are disposed between the first lens group and last lens group and are moved during magnification change. The lens groups that are moved during magnification change substantially consist of three lens groups, wherein the most enlargement-side lens group is a negative lens group. Predetermined conditional expressions relating to a back focus of the entire system on the reduction side at the wide-angle end, a focal length of the entire system at the wide-angle end, a focal length of the last lens group, and a focal length of the first lens group are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yukiko Nagatoshi, Akiko Nagahara
  • Patent number: 8976463
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements to allow the thickness of the second lens element and the sum of all air gaps between all five lens elements along the optical axis satisfying the relation: 0.20<T2<0.50 (mm) and 0.27<(T2/Gaa)<0.40, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Sheng Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8976462
    Abstract: An image pickup optical system made of five lenses, includes in order from an object side, an aperture stop, a first lens L1 having a positive refracting power, a second lens L2 having a negative refracting power, a third lens L3 having a positive refracting power, a fourth lens L4 having a positive refracting power, and a fifth lens L5 having a negative refracting power. Moreover, an image pickup apparatus includes this image pickup optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Ohtsu
  • Patent number: 8976455
    Abstract: A variable-magnification projection optical system substantially consists of a negative first lens group that is disposed at the most enlargement-side position and is fixed during magnification change, a positive last lens group that is disposed at the most reduction-side position and is fixed during magnification change, and a plurality of lens groups that are disposed between the first lens group and last lens group and are moved during magnification change. The most enlargement-side lens group (the second lens group) of the lens groups that are moved during magnification change has a negative refractive power. Predetermined conditional expressions relating to a back focus of the entire system on the reduction side at the wide-angle end, a focal length of the entire system at the wide-angle end, a focal length of the second lens group and a focal length of the last lens group are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Nagahara, Yukiko Nagatoshi
  • Publication number: 20150062722
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens is disclosed. The wide-angle lens includes a first lens element L1, a second lens element L2, a third lens element L3, an aperture diaphragm S, a fourth lens element L4 and a fifth lens element L5 arranged from an object plane to an image plane. The first element L1 is a meniscus lens element having a negative focal power and protruding toward the object plane, the second element L2 is a meniscus lens element having a negative focal power and protruding toward the object plane, the third element L3 is a meniscus lens element having a positive focal power and protruding toward the image plane, the fourth element L4 is a meniscus lens element having a negative focal power and protruding toward the object plane, and the fifth element L5 is a lens element having a positive focal power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi DO, C.S. CHENG
  • Publication number: 20150062723
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Though controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces and/or the refracting power of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: KUO-WEN CHANG, Poche Lee, Wei-Yu Lo
  • Patent number: 8970970
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to an imaging lens, the imaging lens including, in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having negative (?) refractive power, a third lens having positive (+) refractive power, a fourth lens having negative (?) refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative (?) refractive power, wherein the third lens takes a meniscus shape convexly formed at an object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyung Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 8970969
    Abstract: An image lens, in the order from the object side to the image side thereof, includes a first lens including a first surface and a second surface, a second lens including a third surface and a fourth surface, a third lens including a fifth surface and a sixth surface, a fourth lens including a seventh surface and a eighth surface, a fifth lens including a ninth surface and a tenth surface, and an image plane. The image lens satisfies the following formulas: (1) D/TTL>0.94; (2) D/L>1.21; wherein D is the maximum image diameter of the image plane; TTL is a total length of the image lens, and L is a distance from an outmost edge of the tenth surface to an optical axis of the image lens along a direction perpendicular to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Cheng Ko
  • Patent number: 8964307
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through surface designs of the lens elements, the imaging lens has a relatively short overall length while maintaining good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Sheng-Wei Hsu, Tzu-Chien Tang
  • Publication number: 20150049395
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system includes five non-cemented lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein both of the surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one inflection point is formed on the image-side surface thereof. The image capturing lens system has a total of five lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: WEI-YU CHEN
  • Patent number: 8958163
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface comprising a convex portion in the optical axis vicinity. The second lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface comprising a convex portion in the optical axis vicinity and an image-side surface comprising a concave portion in the optical axis vicinity. The third lens element has an image-side surface comprising a convex portion in the periphery. The fourth lens element has an image-side surface comprising a convex portion in the optical axis vicinity. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface comprising a convex portion in the optical axis vicinity and an image-side surface comprising a concave portion in the optical axis vicinity and a convex portion in the periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Wei-Yu Lo
  • Patent number: 8958164
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to an imaging lens, the imaging lens including, in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having negative (?) refractive power, a third lens having negative (?) refractive power, a fourth lens having positive (+) refractive power, and a fifth lens having negative (?) refractive power, wherein the imaging lens meets a conditional expression of 0.8<?T/((FLD)X2)<1.2, where ?T is a distance from an object side surface of the first lens to an image-forming surface, and FLD is a distance from an optical axis to a maximum image height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Duk Keun Kwon, Jong Ha Park
  • Patent number: 8953255
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. The first, second, and third lens elements have positive, negative, and negative refractive powers, respectively. The third lens element has an image-side surface having a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the third lens element. The fourth lens element has a concave object-side surface. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface that has a convex portion in a vicinity of an optical axis of the imaging lens, and an image-side surface that has a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery of the fifth lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Sheng-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8953256
    Abstract: An image pickup lens includes a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object side surface, an aperture stop, a second lens with negative refractive power having a convex image side surface, a third lens with positive refractive power having a concave image side surface, a fourth lens with positive refractive power having a convex image side surface, and a fifth lens with negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image side surface near the optical axis; wherein the first lens and the second lens satisfy following conditional expressions (1) and (2); 50<?1<85??(1) 20<?2<35??(2) where ?1 represents an Abbe number of the first lens, and ?2 represents an Abbe number of the second lens, and where the second lens satisfies a following conditional expression (3); 1.55<Nd2<1.70??(3) where Nd2 represents a refractive index of d-ray of the second lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sayuri Noda
  • Patent number: 8953257
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system includes five non-cemented lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein both of the surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one inflection point is formed on the image-side surface thereof. The image capturing lens system has a total of five lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8953258
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, an aperture stop, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chen-Cheng Liao
  • Publication number: 20150036229
    Abstract: A lens for projection substantially consists of a negative first lens with its concave surface facing a reduction side, a positive second lens with its concave surface facing the reduction side, a negative third lens with its concave surface facing a magnification side, a positive fourth lens with its convex surface facing the reduction side, a positive fifth lens and a positive sixth lens in this order from the magnification side. The reduction side is telecentric. The following conditional formulas (1) and (2) about refractive power P4 of a reduction-side surface of the second lens, refractive power P5 of a magnification-side surface of the third lens, and focal length f of an entire system are satisfied: ?3.0?1/(P4×f)??0.4 ??(1); and ?2.0?1/(P5×f)??0.2 ??(2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Chikara YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8947790
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes five lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein both of an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein at least one inflection point is formed on the image-side surface of the fifth lens element, and both of an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8947788
    Abstract: An image lens assembly system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element has refractive power. The sixth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic material, wherein at least one surface of the sixth lens element is aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power made of plastic material has a concave image-side surface changing from concave in a paraxial region to convex in a peripheral region, and at least one surface thereof is aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Publication number: 20150029383
    Abstract: An image lens assembly includes five lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has refractive power. The second lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the fifth lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han TSAI, Wei-Yu CHEN
  • Patent number: 8941929
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces and/or the refracting power of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-han Chen, Yita Chiang, Feng Chen
  • Publication number: 20150022701
    Abstract: This invention provides an imaging lens system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens having a concave image-side surface; a fourth lens with positive refractive power; a fifth lens with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, at least one surface thereof having at least one inflection point; and an aperture stop disposed between an imaged object and the third lens. The on-axis spacing between the first lens and second lens is T12, the focal length of the imaging lens system is f, and they satisfy the relation: 0.5<(T12/f)×100<15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: CHUN-SHAN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150022714
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system includes five lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface of the fifth lens element has at least one inflection point, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Publication number: 20150022700
    Abstract: This invention provides an imaging lens system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens having a concave image-side surface; a fourth lens with positive refractive power; a fifth lens with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, at least one surface thereof having at least one inflection point; and an aperture stop disposed between an imaged object and the third lens. The on-axis spacing between the first lens and second lens is T12, the focal length of the imaging lens system is f, and they satisfy the relation: 0.5<(T12/f)×100<15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: CHUN-SHAN CHEN
  • Patent number: 8934179
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes five lenses for a solid-state image sensor, arranged in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object side surface, a second lens with negative refractive power having a concave image side surface, a third lens with positive or negative refractive power, a fourth lens with positive refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image side surface near an optical axis, and a fifth lens with negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image side surface near the optical axis, wherein the first lens and second lens satisfy conditional expressions below: 45<?1<90??(1) 22<?2<35??(2) 2.0<?1/?2<2.6??(3) where ?1: first lens Abbe number ?2: second lens Abbe number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tohru Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 8934180
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The positive first lens element has a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region. Both of the positive second lens element and the negative third lens element have a concave object-side surface at a paraxial region and a convex image-side surface at a paraxial region. The positive fourth lens element has a convex image-side surface at a paraxial region. The fifth lens element has a concave image-side surface at a paraxial region, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric, and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element has at least one convex shape at an off-axis region. The image capturing lens system has a total of five lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: LARGAN Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8934181
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Though controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces and/or the refracting power of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: GeniuS Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Wei-Yu Lo
  • Publication number: 20150009392
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces and/or the refracting power of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yita CHIANG, Kailun WANG, Jiasin JHANG
  • Publication number: 20150009580
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly comprises a fixing diaphragm and an optical set including five lenses. An arranging order from an object side to an image side is: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens having a lens with a positive refractive power defined near the optical axis and a convex surface directed toward the image side; a fourth lens having a lens with a positive refractive power defined near the optical axis and a convex surface directed toward the image side; and a fifth lens having a concave surface with a corrugated contour directed toward the image side and disposed near the optical axis. At least one surface of the five lenses is aspheric. By the concatenation between the lenses and the adapted curvature radius, thickness, interval, refractivity, and Abbe numbers, the assembly attains a big diaphragm with ultra-wide-angle, a shorter height, and a better optical aberration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-wen LEE
  • Patent number: 8928999
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly comprises a fixing diaphragm and an optical set including five lenses. An arranging order from an object side to an image side is: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens having a lens with a positive refractive power defined near the optical axis and a convex surface directed toward the image side; a fourth lens having a lens with a positive refractive power defined near the optical axis and a convex surface directed toward the image side; and a fifth lens having a concave surface with a corrugated contour directed toward the image side and disposed near the optical axis. At least one surface of the five lenses is aspheric. By the concatenation between the lenses and the adapted curvature radius, thickness, interval, refractivity, and Abbe numbers, the assembly attains a big diaphragm with ultra-wide-angle, a shorter height, and a better optical aberration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-wen Lee
  • Patent number: 8928998
    Abstract: A wide-angle image lens, in the order from the object side to the image side thereof, includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and an image plane. The wide-angle image lens satisfies the formulas: D/TTL>1.16;D/L>1.17;Z/Y>0, wherein D is the maximum image diameter of the wide-angle image plane; TTL is the total length of the wide-angle image lens; L is a distance from an outmost edge of an image surface of the fifth lens to an optical axis of the wide-angle image lens; Z is a distance from a central point of the objective surface of the fourth lens to an outmost edge of the image surface of the fourth lens, Y is a distance from the outmost edge of the image surface of the fourth lens to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Cheng Ko
  • Publication number: 20150002942
    Abstract: A miniature image pickup lens includes a first lens, a second lens, an aperture, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens arranged in sequence along an optical axis from an object side to an image side. The first lens is a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface towards the object side and a concave surface towards the image side. The second lens is a positive lens with a convex surface towards the object side. The third lens is a positive biconvex lens, and the fourth lens is a negative biconcave lens. The fifth lens has a convex surface towards the object side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Sze-Ying CHEN, Yi-Fang CHEN
  • Patent number: 8922910
    Abstract: An imaging lens consists of a first-lens having a meniscus-shape with its convex-surface facing an object-side and negative-refractive-power and second through fifth lenses, at least one of the surfaces of each of which is aspherical. An image-side surface of the second-lens has a concave-shape facing an image-side. The second-lens has negative-refractive-power. An object-side surface of the third-lens has a convex-shape facing the object-side. The third-lens has positive-refractive-power. An image-side surface of the fourth-lens has a convex-shape facing the image-side. The fourth-lens has positive-refractive-power. The fifth-lens has a meniscus-shape with its convex-surface facing the image-side and negative-refractive-power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 8922909
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an optical image capturing lens system comprising: a positive first lens element having a convex object-side surface, a negative second lens element, a positive third lens element having a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; and a positive fifth lens element having a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region thereof, both of the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric, and at least one inflection point is positioned on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof. When particular relations are satisfied, the angle at which light projects onto the image plane can be efficiently controlled for increasing the relative illumination and preventing the occurrence of vignetting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ming Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Publication number: 20140376109
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging lens, the imaging lens including , in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having negative (?) refractive power, a third lens having positive (+) refractive power, a fourth lens having positive (+) refractive power, and a fifth lens having negative (?) refractive power, wherein an aperture is interposed between the first and second lenses, and the imaging lens meets a conditional expression of 20<V2<30 and 50<V3,V4,V5<60, where Abbe' number of second lens is V2, Abbe's number of third lens is V3, Abbe's number of fourth lens is V4, and Abbe's number of fifth lens is V5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyejung Jeong
  • Publication number: 20140376110
    Abstract: An image pickup lens includes an aperture stop, a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second meniscus lens having a concave image-side surface, a third meniscus lens having a convex image-side surface, a fourth meniscus lens having a concave object-side surface near an optical axis, and a fifth meniscus lens having a concave image-side surface near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of the fourth lens has an aspherical shape in which a positive refractive power weakens toward the periphery, and wherein the following conditional expressions (1) and (7) are satisfied: 0.55<f1/f<1.0??(1) ?1.6<f2/f<?0.7??(7) where f represents a focal length of an overall image pickup lens, f1 represents a first lens focal length, and f2 represents a second lens focal length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Yonezawa
  • Patent number: 8917457
    Abstract: An imaging lens system has, from an object side, at least one positive lens element convex to the object side, a negative lens element, and at least one lens element having an aspherical surface. The positive and negative lens elements are arranged next to each other. The formulae 0.1<Ton/Dopn<7, 0.1<(Rona?Ronb)/(Rona+Ronb)<1.5, and 0.3<Y?/TL<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.
    Inventors: Keiji Matsusaka, Hiroaki Tanaka, Eigo Sano
  • Patent number: 8917458
    Abstract: An image capturing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface, wherein the object-side surface and an image-side surface of the third lens element are aspheric. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power which is made of plastic material, wherein an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the fifth lens element are aspheric, and the fifth lens element has inflection points formed on at least one surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Publication number: 20140368929
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an optical system for a camera. The optical system for a camera includes: a first lens having positive refractive power and a meniscus shape concave toward an image; a second lens having negative refractive power and a shape concave toward the image; a third lens having the positive refractive power and a shape convex toward an object; a fourth lens having the positive refractive power and a shape convex toward the image; and a fifth lens having the negative refractive power, a shape convex toward the object and concave to the image, and one or more inflection point provided on an image surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyu Min Chae
  • Publication number: 20140368928
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an imaging lens, including: a first lens having positive (+) power and being biconvex; a second lens having negative (?) power and being concave toward an image side; a third lens having positive (+) power and being biconvex; a fourth lens having positive (+) power and being convex toward the image side; and a fifth lens havign negative (?) power and being concave toward the image side, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens are sequentially disposed from an object side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Joo Jo
  • Publication number: 20140368930
    Abstract: There is provided a lens module, including: a first lens having positive refractive power, an object-sided surface thereof being convex; a second lens having negative refractive power, an image-sided surface thereof being concave; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens having negative refractive power, an image-sided surface thereof being convex; and a fifth lens having negative refractive power, an image-sided surface thereof being concave, wherein the fourth lens satisfies Conditional Expression 1, f4/f<?3.0??[Conditional Expression 1] where f is an overall focal distance of an optical system and f4 is a focal distance of the fourth lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Phil Ho Jung, Young Gi Kim
  • Patent number: 8913330
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements to allow the thickness of the second lens element and the sum of all air gaps between all five lens elements along the optical axis satisfying the relation: 0.20<T2<0.50 (mm) and 0.27<(T2/Gaa)<0.40, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Sheng Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8913332
    Abstract: A lens optical system including first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lenses that are sequentially arranged between an object and an image sensor on which an image of the object is formed. The first lens may have a positive refractive power and may be biconvex. The second lens may have a negative refractive power and may have a meniscus shape that is convex toward the object. The third lens may have a positive refractive power. The fourth lens may have a positive refractive power and may have a meniscus shape that is convex toward the image sensor. The fifth lens may have a negative refractive power, and at least one of an incident surface and an exit surface of the fifth lens may be an aspherical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Kolen Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pil Sun Jung, Hyoung Bae Park, Chi Ho An, Jae Hoon Cho, Ji Eun Kim
  • Patent number: 8913329
    Abstract: An image lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial. The second lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The third lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dung-Yi Hsieh, Tsung-Han Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Publication number: 20140362454
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes five lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein both of an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein at least one inflection point is formed on the image-side surface of the fifth lens element, and both of an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Tsung-Han TSAI, Hsin-Hsuan HUANG
  • Patent number: 8908288
    Abstract: An image capturing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power is made of plastic material, and has an image-side surface being concave at a paraxial region and being convex at a peripheral region, wherein at least one of an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element is aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Hsu, Tsung-Han Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8908285
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes a front unit including a first positive lens unit and a second positive or negative lens unit, a reflective mirror and a rear unit including two or more lens units. During zooming, the reflective mirror is not moved, and the first lens unit and at least two lens units of the rear unit are moved. When the zoom lens is retracted into a body of an image pickup apparatus, at least one of rotation of the reflective mirror such that a normal line thereto is brought closer to parallel to an optical axis of the rear unit and axial movement thereof in a direction of the optical axis of the rear unit is performed. The front unit is moved into a space formed by the at least one of the rotation and the axial movement. Conditions of 10.5<ft/|fn|<30.0 and 0.80<(Lf?L)/Lm<1.30 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Wada
  • Patent number: 8908289
    Abstract: Arranging a negative first lens, a positive second lens, a negative third lens, a positive fourth lens, and a negative fifth lens from the object side, in which the image side surface of the fifth lens has an aspherical shape with one or more inflection points and a concave shape toward the image side in a paraxial region, and, when the focal length of the entire lens system, radius of curvature of the image side surface of the first lens, radius of curvature of the image side surface of the second lens, overall optical length, focal length of jth lens, and Abbe number of jth lens are taken as f, R2, R4, TL, fj, and ?j respectively, the image capturing lens is configured to simultaneously satisfy conditional expressions (1a): ?1.5<f/R2<1.6, (2a): ?1.6<f/R4<0.05, (3a): 0.95?f4/f?4.3, (5a): 1.0?TL/f?2.2, and (12b): ?2.0<?(fj/?j)/f<0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Noda