Having Four Components Patents (Class 359/715)
  • Patent number: 8896937
    Abstract: An image capturing 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 and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof and a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof and a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element with positive refractive power has a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof and a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The image capturing lens assembly has a total of four lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Hsueh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Publication number: 20140340767
    Abstract: An imaging lens is composed of a first lens having a negative meniscus shape with a convex surface on the object side, a negative second lens, a positive third lens, an aperture stop, a negative fourth lens, and a positive fifth lens disposed in order from the object side. The fourth and the fifth lens are cemented with an interface which is convex on the object side and has an aspherical shape. If the radius of curvature is taken as R9 and the focal length of the entire system is taken as f, the imaging lens satisfies a conditional expression given below: 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masao MORI, Ryoko OTOMO
  • Patent number: 8891178
    Abstract: This invention provides an optical lens system in order from an object side to an image side comprising: a first lens element having a convex object-side surface; a negative second lens element having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a positive third lens element having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a plastic negative fourth lens element having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, with both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric. By such arrangement, the incident angle of off-axis light projected onto the sensor can be suppressed for improving the sensitivity of the sensor effectively. Also, a sufficient back focal length can be retained for disposing other optical elements (e.g., an IR-pass filter), and thereby the system can be more suitable for the infrared aspect of optical imaging systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Hsu, Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Publication number: 20140327975
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly for image taking includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power includes a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region. The second lens element with negative refractive power includes a concave object-side surface at a paraxial region. The third lens element with refractive power includes a concave object-side surface at a paraxial region and a convex image-side surface at a paraxial region. The fourth lens element made of plastic with negative refractive power includes a concave object-side surface at a paraxial region and an image-side surface. Both of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric, and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave at a paraxial region and convex at a peripheral region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Tsung-Han TSAI, Wei-Yu CHEN
  • Patent number: 8879164
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a positive first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; a positive third lens unit; and a positive fourth lens unit, wherein the first lens unit includes a positive first lens subunit, which does not move for focusing, a positive second lens subunit, which moves during the focus adjustment, and a positive third lens subunit, which does not move for focusing; and focal lengths of the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, a magnification of the third lens unit U3 at a wide angle end, focal lengths of the first lens subunit, the second lens subunit appropriately satisfy certain relations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masao Hori
  • Patent number: 8879163
    Abstract: There is provided a zoom lens including, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group having negative refractive power, a second lens group having positive refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. In zooming from a wide-angle end to a telescopic end, the first lens group moves to the object side in a manner that a distance toward the second lens group shortens, and a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group lengthens. The third lens group includes a single lens or a single cemented lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Oohata, Hiroki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8879172
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens L1 that has a biconvex shape near an optical axis and has positive refractive power, a second lens L2 that has a biconcave shape near the optical axis and has negative refractive power, a third lens L3 that has a shape of a meniscus lens directing a concave surface thereof to an object side near an optical axis and has positive refractive power, and a fourth lens L4 that has a biconcave shape near the optical axis and has negative refractive power, arranged in this order from the object side. When the whole lens system has a focal length f and the fourth lens L4 has a focal length f4, the imaging lens of the invention satisfies the following expression: ?0.7<f4/f<?0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Optical Logic Inc., Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Ichiro Kurihara, Yoshio Ise, Sumio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 8879168
    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 and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element with positive refractive power has a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof and a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric, and the image-side surface thereof has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof. The image capturing lens system has a total of four lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Cheng-Chen Lin, Dung-Yi Hsieh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8879173
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens and a third lens having negative refractive power, and a second lens and a fourth lens having positive refractive power. Curvature radiuses of surfaces of the first lens on an object side and an image plane side are positive. A curvature radius of a surface of the second lens on the object side is positive. Curvature radiuses of surfaces of the third lens on the object side and the image plane side are negative. Curvature radiuses of surfaces of the fourth lens on the object side and the image plane side are positive. The first lens has a focal length f1 and the second lens has a focal length f2, so that the following conditional expression is satisfied: ?0.6<f2/f1<?0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Optical Logic Inc., Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Tomohiro Yonezawa
  • Patent number: 8873155
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes first to third lens units having positive, negative, and positive refractive power, respectively, and a rear lens group having positive refractive power. An aperture stop is arranged between a lens surface of the second lens unit closest to the image side and a lens surface of the third lens unit closest to the image side. The third lens unit includes first and second positive lenses each including an aspheric surface, and a negative lens. In the third lens unit, a refractive index of the first positive lens, and an Abbe number and relative partial dispersion of the second positive lens are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomonori Kimura
  • Patent number: 8873157
    Abstract: A zoom lens system has, in order from the enlargement side, a first lens group that remains stationary during zooming and that has a negative optical power and a plurality of lens groups that move during zooming. The first lens group includes three lens groups each having a negative optical power, namely a 1a-th lens group, a 1b-th lens group, and a 1c-th lens group. The 1a-th lens group remains stationary during focusing and includes at least one positive lens element. The 1b-th lens group moves toward the reduction side during focusing from infinity to a close distance. The 1c-th lens group moves toward the enlargement side during focusing from infinity to a close distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.
    Inventor: Masayuki Imaoka
  • Publication number: 20140313598
    Abstract: A thin-type wide-angle imaging lens assembly comprises a fixing diaphragm and an optical set including four lenses. An arranging order from an object side to an image side is: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; and the fixing diaphragm disposed between an object and the second lens. 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: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Kuo-yu LIAO
  • Patent number: 8861096
    Abstract: An imaging lens including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. The first lens group is disposed between an object side and an image side. A surface closest to the object side in the first lens group is a first aspheric surface. A surface closest to the image side in the first lens group is a second aspheric surface. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the image side. A surface closest to the first lens group in the second lens group is a third aspheric surface. A surface closest to the image side in the second lens group is a fourth aspheric surface. The imaging lens satisfies: ?8<f2/f<?4, where f is an effective focal length (EFL) of the imaging lens, and f2 is an EFL of the second lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Chuan-Hui Yang
  • Patent number: 8848298
    Abstract: An image capturing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power, a third lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and a fourth lens element with refractive power having a concave image-side surface. The object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric. Either or both of the object-side surface and the image-side surface have at least one inflection point formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Publication number: 20140285908
    Abstract: An image capturing system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface. The third lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region and a convex image-side surface at a paraxial region. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface at a paraxial region, wherein the image-side surface of the fourth lens element has a convex shape at a peripheral region, and both of the surfaces of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The image capturing system has a total of four lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: LARGAN Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Wei-Yu Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 8842378
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; and a fourth lens having negative refractive power, arranged from an object side to an image plane side. In the first lens, a curvature radius on an object-side surface is positive and a curvature radius of an image-side surface is negative. In the third lens, curvature radii of an object-side surface and an image-side surface are both negative. In the fourth lens, curvature radii of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are both positive. When the whole lens system has a focal length f and a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to an image-side surface of the fourth lens is L14, the imaging lens satisfies the following expression: 0.5<L14/f<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignees: Optical Logic Inc., Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Ichiro Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20140268369
    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 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 aspheric surface toward the object side and a concave aspheric surface toward the image side. The second lens has both aspheric surfaces including a convex surface toward the object side. The third lens is a positive biconvex lens. The fourth lens is a positive biconvex lens. The fifth lens is a negative lens with a concave surface toward the object side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: KINKO OPTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sze-Ying CHEN, Yi-Fang CHEN
  • Patent number: 8837060
    Abstract: Image capture lens modules and wafer level packaged image capture devices are presented. The image capture lens module includes a compound lens with a first lens element and a second lens element molded on both sides of a substrate, and a field stop disposed at an interface between the first lens element and the substrate or at an interface between the second lens element and the substrate, wherein the field stop is a coating layer with a polygonal transparent area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignees: Visera Technologies Company Limited, Omnivision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Chi Lin, Jau-Jan Deng, Wei-Ping Chen
  • Publication number: 20140254031
    Abstract: An imaging 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 and a fourth lens element. The positive first lens element has a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region. The negative second lens element has a concave image-side surface at a paraxial region, wherein the image-side surface thereof has a convex shape at a peripheral region, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The positive third lens element has a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region and a convex image-side surface at a paraxial region. The negative fourth lens element has a concave image-side surface at a paraxial region, wherein the image-side surface thereof has a convex shape at a peripheral region, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The imaging lens assembly has a total of four lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin-Yao LIAO, Wei-Yu CHEN
  • Publication number: 20140253983
    Abstract: An image reading lens which reads an original image includes a front group lens system on an object side, and a back group lens system on an image side, the front group lens system including three lenses having two positive lenses and a negative lens, and the back group lens system including a plastic negative lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventor: Takuya NAGANO
  • Patent number: 8824062
    Abstract: A zoom lens consists of positive first lens group, which is fixed during changing magnification, negative second lens group, which is moved during changing magnification, negative third lens group for correcting a fluctuation of an image plane caused by changing magnification, and positive fourth lens group, which is fixed during changing magnification, which are in this order from an object side. The first lens group consists of negative lens and positive lens group consisting of three or less positive lenses in this order from the object side. Each of the negative lens and at least one of the positive lens or lenses in the first lens group has at least an aspherical surface. A predetermined formula is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Aoi, Shinkichi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8817387
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having negative refractive power; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; and a fourth lens having negative refractive power, arranged from an object side to an image plane side. In the first lens, a curvature radius of an image-side surface is positive. In the second lens, curvature radii of the object-side surface and the image-side surface are both negative. In the third lens, a curvature radius of the object-side surface is positive and a curvature radius of the image-side surface is negative. When a whole lens system has a focal length f and the first lens has a focal length f1, the imaging lens satisfies the following conditional expression: ?3.0<f1/f<?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Optical Logic Inc.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano
  • Patent number: 8817389
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly for image taking includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power includes a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region. The second lens element with negative refractive power includes a concave object-side surface at a paraxial region. The third lens element with refractive power includes a concave object-side surface at a paraxial region and a convex image-side surface at a paraxial region. The fourth lens element made of plastic with negative refractive power includes a concave object-side surface at a paraxial region and an image-side surface. At least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is aspheric, and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave at a paraxial region and convex at a peripheral region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: LARGAN Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8817391
    Abstract: An optical system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group includes a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; and a second lens group in order from the object side to the image side includes a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface, and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface of the fourth lens element changes from concave at a paraxial region to convex at a peripheral region, and both of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8817388
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device for mobile devices such as a mobile phone, using a high resolution image sensor such as a charge coupled device (CCD) and a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Jo Kim, Moon Joon Kim, Hyun Woo Ji, Jeong Soon Kang, Beom Sik Kim, Jun Su Kim
  • Patent number: 8817390
    Abstract: An image pickup lens having a relatively wide angle of field with various aberrations preferably corrected and having a small F-value is achieved. The image pickup lens is composed of, in order from an object side, an aperture stop, a first lens of a biconvex shape having a refractive power, a second lens of a meniscus shape having a negative refractive power with a concave surface facing the object side near the optical axis, a third lens of a meniscus shape having a positive refractive power with a concave surface facing the object side near the optical axis, and a fourth lens of a biconcave shape having a negative refractive power near the optical axis, wherein the image pickup lens satisfies a following conditional expression (1): 0.6<f1/f<0.8??(1) where f1 represents a focal length of the first lens, and f represents a focal length of the overall image pickup lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8817386
    Abstract: This invention provides an image capturing lens system in order from an object side to an image side comprising four non-cemented lens elements with refractive power: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface; a plastic third lens element having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a plastic fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric, and at least one inflection point is formed on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof; wherein the image capturing lens system comprises a stop positioned between the first lens element and the second lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Hsu, Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8810926
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an imaging lens. The imaging lens according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a first lens having positive (+) power and having both sides formed to be convex, a second lens having negative (?) power and formed to be concave toward a top side, a third lens having positive power and having both sides formed to be convex, a fourth lens having positive (+) power and formed to be convex toward a top side, and a fifth lens having negative (?) power and formed to be concave toward the top side, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens are disposed in order from an object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Young Kim
  • Patent number: 8804252
    Abstract: An optical 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 and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power, wherein an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the third lens element are aspheric. The fourth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic material and has a concave image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric, and the fourth lens element has at least one inflection point formed on at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dung-Yi Hsieh, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8804024
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises four lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Though controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces, the refracting power and/or the ratio or difference among the parameters of the lens element(s), the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih Han Chen, Chung Chih Chang, Hung Chien Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8797658
    Abstract: This invention provides a capturing lens system in order from an object side to an image side comprising: a first lens element with positive refractive power; a plastic second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a plastic third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric, and at least one inflection point is formed on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof. Additionally, the central thickness of the second lens element is controlled favorably for the efficient spatial arrangement of the lens assembly and the simpler individual lens production while assuring suitable thickness of the second lens element, thereby assuring high image quality and improving yield rate of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Publication number: 20140211329
    Abstract: An optical system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group includes a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; and a second lens group in order from the object side to the image side includes a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface, and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface of the fourth lens element changes from concave at a paraxial region to convex at a peripheral region, and both of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8792187
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes plastic-made first, second, third, and fourth lens elements arranged in the given order from an object side to an imaging side. The first lens element has a positive focusing power and is biconvex. The second lens element has a negative focusing power, is biconcave, and has an abbe number not greater than 30. The third lens element has a positive focusing power and has a convex imaging-side surface facing toward the imaging side. The fourth lens element has an imaging-side surface formed with a concave area in a vicinity of an optical axis of the fourth lens element. The imaging lens further includes an aperture stop disposed between the first and second lens elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Poche Lee, Kuo-Wen Chang, Long-Sheng Liao
  • Patent number: 8792182
    Abstract: A zoom lens including a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative reflective power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear lens group including one or more lens units in this order from an object side to an image side, wherein distances between the respective lens units vary during the zooming operation, wherein the first lens unit consists of three lenses including one negative lens, and a partial dispersion ratio of a material for the negative lens of the first lens unit, an Abbe number of the same, a focal length of the entire system at a wide angle end and a focal length of the first lens unit are set individually and adequately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Daisuke Ito
  • Publication number: 20140198397
    Abstract: Arranged in order from an object side are: an aperture stop; a positive (refractive power) first lens having convex object-side and image-side surfaces; a double-sided aspheric negative second lens having a concave object-side surface; a meniscus double-sided aspheric positive third lens having a convex image-side surface; and a meniscus double-sided aspheric negative fourth lens having a concave image-side surface. All the lenses are made of plastic material and conditional expressions below are satisfied: 0.56<r1/f<1.10??(1) 0.86<f1/f3<1.41??(2) ?5.0<r3/r4<0.1??(3) 2.0<r7/r8<4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio Sekine
  • Patent number: 8780254
    Abstract: There is provided an eyepiece optical system including a lens, a surface nearest to an observer side of the lens disposed nearest to the observer side being formed in a convex shape on the observer side, and the eyepiece optical system satisfying a conditional expression (1) |RL/DH|<1.7, where RL is a radius of curvature of the surface nearest to the observer side, and DH is a shortest distance in a radial direction from an optical axis to an edge surface of the lens nearest to the observer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Chiharu Hiyori
  • Patent number: 8773771
    Abstract: An image pickup optical system having four lenses includes in order from an object side, a first lens having a biconvex shape, and a positive refractive power, a second lens having a biconcave shape, and a negative refractive power, a third lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface thereof directed toward the object side, and a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens having a biconcave shape, and a negative refractive power, and a diaphragm is disposed nearest to the object side, and the surface on the object side of the fourth lens does not have a point of inflection as well as the optical system satisfying the recited numerical conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro Abe
  • Patent number: 8773782
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly with a filter member for image taking, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, comprises: a filter member and a lens assembly. The lens assembly is set at the object side of the filter member. The lens assembly comprises at least three lens elements with refractive powers, wherein at least two lens elements are made of plastic, and have at least one aspheric object-side surface or image-side surface. By such arrangements, the optical lens assembly with a filter member for image taking can have good chromatic aberration correction and reduce the total length for applications to electronic products such as cameras and mobile phones requiring high resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co.
    Inventors: Ming-Ta Chou, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 8773772
    Abstract: A lens optical system includes first, second, third, and fourth lenses that are arranged between an object and an image sensor, in order from an object side, wherein the first lens has positive refractive power and an incident surface that is convex toward the object, the second lens has negative refractive power and both surfaces of which are concave, the third lens has positive refractive power and a meniscus shape that is convex toward the image sensor, and the fourth lens has negative refractive power and at least one of an incident surface and an exit surface of which is an aspherical surface, wherein the system satisfies the inequality, 3.0<TTL/BL<3.4, wherein TTL is a distance from the incident surface of the first lens to the image sensor and BL is a distance from the exit surface of the fourth lens to the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kolen Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi Ho An, Pil Sun Jung, Jae Hoon Cho, Ji Eun Kim, Chan Goo Kang
  • Publication number: 20140184900
    Abstract: Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises four 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 refractive 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: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicants: Opto Optics Corp., GeniuS Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jih-Chung HUANG
  • Patent number: 8767298
    Abstract: An imaging lens with large aperture ratio, high-performance and low-cost is provided, which is applied to an imaging element of a small-size and high resolution, in which aberration is corrected satisfactorily and sufficient diffraction resolution is achieved. An imaging lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens arranged in sequence from an object side, wherein both surfaces of each lens are formed from aspheric surface, a diffraction optics surface exerting chromatic dispersion function is arranged on a surface on an image side of the second lens, each lens is configured from plastic material, and an aperture ratio is equal to or smaller than F/2.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisanori Suzuki, Shingo Watanabe, Kenichi Kamada, Kazuo Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8760776
    Abstract: This invention provides an optical image capturing lens assembly comprising four lens elements, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a plastic third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a plastic fourth lens element with negative refractive power, an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric, at least one inflection point being formed on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof. With the aforementioned arrangement, the total track length of the lens assembly can be effectively reduced, the sensitivity of the system can be attenuated and the image quality can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dung-Yi Hsieh, Hsiang-Chi Tang, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8755131
    Abstract: The invention is an optical lens assembly for capturing images and an image capture device therewith. The optical lens assembly for capturing images includes, along an optical axis, a total reflection prism, a first lens group having negative focal power, wherein the first lens group comprises a lens having negative focal power, a second lens group having positive focal power, wherein the second lens group comprises at least one lens having an aspherical optical surface, a third lens group having positive focal power, wherein the third lens group comprises at least one lens having positive focal power and at least one lens having negative focal power, and a fourth lens group having positive focal power, wherein the fourth lens group comprises at least one lens having an aspherical optical surface. Thereby, the aberration can be improved and a thin lens module for capturing images can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Altek Corporation
    Inventor: Jui-Hsiung Kuo
  • Publication number: 20140153116
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having negative refractive power; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a stop; and a fourth lens having positive refractive power arranged in the order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens has an image plane-side surface having a positive curvature radius. The second lens has an image plane-side surface having negative curvature radius. The third lens has an image plane-side surface having a negative curvature radius. The fourth lens has an object-side surface having a positive curvature radius and an image plane-side surface having a negative curvature radius. The first lens has a specific focal length and a specific Abbe's number to satisfy specific conditional expressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicants: KANTATSU CO., LTD., OPTICAL LOGIC INC.
    Inventors: Yoji KUBOTA, Kenichi KUBOTA, Hitoshi HIRANO, Tomohiro YONEZAWA
  • Publication number: 20140146401
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an image capturing lens system, in order from an object side to an image side comprising: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a second lens element with positive refractive power; a third lens element with positive refractive power; and a fourth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a concave at a paraxial region and convex at a peripheral region image-side surface, and both of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; wherein the lens elements of the image capturing lens system with refractive power are the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element and the fourth lens element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Chun-Che Hsueh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Publication number: 20140146400
    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 and an image plane. The image lens satisfies the following formulas: D/TTL>0.45; CT4/ET4<2.11; Z/Y>0.06; wherein D is the maximum image diameter of the image plane; TTL is a total length of the wide-angle image lens; CT4 is a distance along an optical axis from the seventh surface to the eighth surface; ET4 is a distance along the optical axis from an outmost edge of the seventh surface to an outmost edge of the eighth surface; Z is a distance from a central point of the fifth surface to an outmost edge of the sixth surface along the optical axis; Y is a distance from the outmost edge of the sixth surface to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: CHUN-CHENG KO
  • Patent number: 8736985
    Abstract: A lens optical system includes first to fourth lenses that are sequentially arranged from an object, and which are between the object and an image sensor on which an image of the object is formed. The first lens has a positive refractive power and an incident surface that is convex toward the object. The second lens has a negative refractive power and both surfaces that are concave. The third lens has a positive refractive power and has a meniscus shape that is convex toward the image sensor. The fourth lens has a negative refractive power and at least one of an incident surface and an exit surface thereof is an aspherical surface. The lens optical system may satisfy an inequality that 0.5<|tan ?|/f<1.5, where “?” denotes an angle of view of the lens optical system and “f” denotes a focal length of the lens optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Kolen Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae Hoon Cho
  • Patent number: 8736984
    Abstract: An image capturing 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 at a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being convex at a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave at a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex at a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave at a paraxial region thereof and being convex at a peripheral region thereof, wherein the surfaces of the fifth lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dung-Yi Hsieh, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8730589
    Abstract: An image lens, in order from an object side to an 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, and an image plane. The image lens satisfies the following formulas: D/TTL>1.11; D/L>1.13; Z/Y>0.076; wherein D is the maximum image diameter of the image plane; TTL is a total length of the image lens; L is a distance from an outermost edge of the eighth surface to an optical axis of the image lens; Z is a distance from a central point of the sixth surface to an outermost edge of the sixth surface; and Y is a distance from the outermost edge of the sixth surface to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Cheng Ko
  • Patent number: 8730594
    Abstract: An image pickup lens for a solid-state image pickup element includes a first lens having a positive refractive power with a convex surface facing the object side, a second lens with concave surfaces facing the object side and an image side, a third lens of a meniscus shape having a positive refractive power with a convex surface facing the image side, and a fourth lens with concave surfaces facing the object side and the image side, wherein the image pickup lens satisfies the following conditional expressions (1),(2),(5),and(7); ?1.3<r1/r2<0.03 ??(1) 0.09<r6/r5<1.0 ??(2) ?0.16270?r8/r7??0.0049871 ??(5) 0.38659694?f3/f?0.565293 ??(7) where r1, r2: curvature radius of the first lens; r5, r6: curvature radius of the third lens; r7, r8: curvature radius of the fourth lens; f: composite focal length of an overall image pickup lens system; and f3: focal length of the third lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ise, Masaya Hashimoto