Five Components Patents (Class 359/763)
  • Patent number: 8842376
    Abstract: This invention provides an injection-molded plastic optical lens comprising from a center to an edge thereof an optical effective portion, a connecting portion and a peripheral portion that are concentrically formed. The plastic optical lens has an outer diameter D. The optical effective portion has an edge thickness ET1 and a central thickness CT, the connecting portion has a minimum thickness ET2, and the plastic optical lens satisfies the following relations of CT?0.30 mm and ET2/ET1<1.0. At least one lens element with refractive power can be disposed at each of the object side and the image side of the plastic optical lens of the present invention to form an optical lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sheng-Yu Yang, Yeo-Chih Huang
  • Patent number: 8830597
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, an aperture stop, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power. During zooming, the first lens unit and the aperture stop do not move and the second, third, and fourth lens units move along different loci. Lateral magnifications of the second lens unit at a wide angle end and at a telephoto end and lateral magnifications of the third lens unit at the wide angle end and at the telephoto end are each appropriately set based on predetermined mathematical conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8810922
    Abstract: Providing for a fixed focus optical system exhibiting extended depth of field is provided herein. By way of example, a compact and fast optical system that yields an asymmetric modulation transfer function (MTF) is disclosed. In some aspects, the asymmetric MTF results in extended depth of field for near field objects. Such a response can be particularly beneficial for small handheld cameras or camera modules having high resolution. According to some disclosed aspects, the resolution can be about 8 mega pixels. Additionally, the optical system can comprise four lenses in one aspect and five lenses in another, while remaining below about 5.3 mm total track length (TTL) for the respective systems. In at least one application, the disclosed optical systems can be employed for a high resolution compact camera, for instance in conjunction with an electronic computing device, communication device, display device, surveillance equipment, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Fotonation Limited
    Inventors: Kai Engelhardt, Pavel Reshidko, Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg
  • Patent number: 8810925
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes, from an object side to an image side, an aperture stop, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens elements. The first lens element has a positive refracting power, and its object-side surface has a convex portion near an optical axis and a convex portion near its periphery. The second lens element has a negative refracting power. The third lens element has a negative refracting power, and its object-side surface has a concave portion near its periphery. The fourth lens element has a positive refracting power, an object-side surface having a concave portion near the optical axis and a concave portion near its periphery, and an image-side surface having a convex portion near the optical axis and a convex portion near its periphery. The image-side surface of the fifth lens element has a concave portion near the optical axis and a convex portion near its periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Sheng-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8810924
    Abstract: An image capturing lens which substantially consists of five lenses, composed of a first lens having a positive refractive power with the object side surface being formed in a convex shape toward the object side, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power with the object side surface being formed in a concave shape toward the object side, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power with a region in which the negative refractive power is gradually reduced outwardly in a radial direction from the optical axis, arranged in this order from the object side, and satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Kondo, Takayuki Noda
  • Patent number: 8810929
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an imaging lens unit, including: a first lens having a positive (+) power; a second lens having a negative (?) power; a third lens selectively having one of a positive (+) and negative (?) power; a fourth lens having a negative (?) power; and a fifth lens having a negative (?) power, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and fifth lens are arranged in order from an object to be formed as an image, and the fourth lens is concave toward an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho Sik You
  • Publication number: 20140218584
    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: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: GeniuS Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Liou, Hung-Chien Hsieh, Yan Bin Chen
  • Publication number: 20140218597
    Abstract: A five element lens system for use with an imaging sensor includes first, second, third, fourth, and fifth lens elements and an optical filter that are arranged sequentially in order from an object side to an imaging side. The lens elements are coated with an anti-reflective film. The lens system further includes an optical filter that is disposed at a distance from the imaging sensor. The lens elements are relatively positioned to each other to satisfy specific conditions. The lens elements further include thickness to diameters ratios that satisfy specific conditions. The lens system is capable of focusing images of objects located from a range of 10 cm to infinity from the lens system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Genius Electric Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Poche Lee
  • Patent number: 8786963
    Abstract: An imaging lens including: in order from an object side thereof, a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens formed in a meniscus shape having a negative refractive power with a concave surface faced to an image side; a third lens formed in a biconvex shape having a positive refractive power near an optical axis; a fourth lens formed in a meniscus shape having a positive refractive power with a concave surface faced to the object side near the optical axis; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power near the optical axis and a positive refractive power in a peripheral portion, the imaging lens satisfying the following conditional expression (a), 3.0?f3/f4?30.0 (a) where f3 is a focal length of the third lens, and f4 is a focal length of the fourth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Tamura
  • Patent number: 8773767
    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: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Sheng-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8773780
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an imaging lens unit, including: a first lens having a positive (+) power; a second lens having a negative (?) power; a third lens selectively having one of a positive (+) and negative (?) power; a fourth lens having a negative (?) power; and a fifth lens having a negative (?) power, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and fifth lens are arranged in order from an object to be formed as an image, and the fourth lens is concave toward an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho Sik You
  • Patent number: 8767317
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes five lens elements. The first lens element has a positive refracting power, and its object-side surface has a convex portion near the optical axis and a concave portion near its periphery. The second lens element has a negative refracting power, and its object-side surface has a convex portion near its periphery. The third lens element has an object-side surface having a concave portion near its periphery and an image-side surface having a convex portion near its periphery. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface having a concave portion near its periphery and an image-side surface having a convex portion near its periphery. The image-side surface of the fifth lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a convex portion near its periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Sheng-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8760773
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens group having a negative refractive power. The zoom lens satisfies given conditions to implement a compact, wide angle, large aperture ratio zoom lens having excellent optical performance and compatible with solid state image sensors capable of recording full high vision images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lai Wei
  • Publication number: 20140160338
    Abstract: A finder optical system includes, in the order from a display device side to an eye point side, a first lens group to increase a light beam height of a light beam bundle incident from a display device side and to emit the light beam bundle to the eye point side, and a second lens group having an image formation action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masahito Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8743479
    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 with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. 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 image-side surface. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic material and has a concave image-side surface. At least one inflection point is formed on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces of the fifth lens element. The surfaces of the third lens element, the fourth lens element and the fifth lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8736981
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Shan Chen
  • Patent number: 8736983
    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 having 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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Joo Jo
  • Patent number: 8711491
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes: a first lens element having a positive refracting power, and having a convex object-side surface facing toward an object side; a second lens element having a negative refracting power, and having a concave image-side surface facing toward an image side; a third lens element having a negative refracting power; a fourth lens having a convex image-side surface facing toward the image side; and a fifth lens element having an image-side surface with concave and convex portions and facing toward the image side. Absolute value of a difference between Abbe numbers of the second and third lens elements is less than 10. A quotient of a thickness of the fourth lens element divided by a sum of widths of air gap among the lens elements ranges between 0.5 and 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Wen Chang, Poche Lee, Sheng-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 8693111
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Shan Chen
  • Patent number: 8687293
    Abstract: An optical imaging system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with a positive refractive power, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element with a positive refractive power having an aspheric surface and a fifth lens element with a negative refractive power. An image-side surface of the fifth lens element is concave, and at least one of two surfaces of the fifth lens element is aspheric. The relationship between a sum of thicknesses of all lens elements with refractive powers on an optical axis and a distance on the optical axis between an object-side surface of the first lens element and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element in the optical imaging system can effectively reduce the total length as well as the sensitivity of the optical imaging system while gaining superior resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Shan Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8670191
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Shan Chen
  • Patent number: 8670190
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Shan Chen
  • Patent number: 8654457
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wide-angle optical system constituted of, in order from the object side to the image side, front group 11, stop 12, and rear group 13. The front group 11 is constituted, in order from the object side to the image side, of first lens 111 having negative optical power, second lens 112 having negative optical power, and third lens 113 having positive optical power. The rear group 13 is constituted, in order from the object side to the image side, of fourth lens 131 having positive optical power, and fifth lens 132 having negative optical power. The opposite surface from the stop of each of the paired lenses 113 and 131 arranged at the both sides of the stop 12 is a convex surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto Jin, Keiji Matsusaka, Toru Nakatani
  • Patent number: 8649112
    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 a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element with refractive power is made of plastic material, and has at least one surface being aspheric. The fourth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic material, and has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, wherein at least one surface of the fourth lens element is aspheric. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power is made of plastic material, and has a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, wherein at least one surface of the fifth lens element is aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8649113
    Abstract: This invention provides an optical image capturing lens system comprising: a negative first lens element having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface at the paraxial region; a positive second lens element; a negative third lens element; a positive fourth lens element having a convex image-side surface at the paraxial region; and a negative plastic fifth lens element having a convex object-side surface at the paraxial region as well as a concave at the paraxial region and convex at the peripheral region image-side surface, at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric. The optical image capturing lens system of the present invention effectively increases the angle of view to a proper range and suppresses the distortion. In addition, the present invention has a tighter arrangement of the lens elements and a smaller back focal length, and therefore is more appropriate for the compact device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8649115
    Abstract: An optical 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 a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The second lens element with refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The third lens element with refractive power has two surfaces being aspheric. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface, wherein the surfaces of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein the surfaces of the fifth lens element are aspheric, and the fifth lens element has inflection points on at least one of the surfaces thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Shan Chen, Chih-Wen Hsu, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Publication number: 20130342920
    Abstract: The invention is directed to correcting compound lens forms for 3rd and 5th order ray aberrations. All lens design forms have limiting aberrations. The proposed classes of lenses can be corrected for all 3rd and 5th order ray aberrations. The limiting aberrations are seventh order or higher. A variety of these lenses are disclosed here for the sake of example. These lens design forms can be used in various applications including the objective lens for an endoscope or other optical instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventor: George E. Duckett, III
  • Publication number: 20130279020
    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: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sayuri Noda
  • Publication number: 20130265657
    Abstract: A first lens unit performing communication with an image pickup apparatus with a first voltage and a second lens unit performing communication with the image pickup apparatus with a second voltage are selectively attached to the image pickup apparatus. The image pickup apparatus includes a controller configured to operate with a third voltage different from at least one of the first and second voltages to output a signal for the communication with the first and second lens units, and a determiner configured to determine the type of the lens unit attached to the image pickup apparatus. The controller is configured to produce, as a voltage of the signal for the communication, from the third voltage, one of the first and second voltages corresponding to a determination result of the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Hasegawa, Tatsuyuki Tokunaga, Tetsuya Nishio, Azusa Sugawara, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshihiko Konno
  • Patent number: 8537472
    Abstract: A photographing optical 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 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 refractive power. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element are aspheric, and the fifth 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 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8531784
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes: an aperture stop; a biconvex first lens directing convex surfaces toward an object and an image; a second lens directing a convex surface toward the object near the optical axis and having negative refractive power; a biconvex third lens directing convex surfaces toward the object and the image near the optical axis; a fourth lens directing a concave surface toward the object near the optical axis and having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens directing a convex surface toward the object near the optical axis and having negative refractive power. The aperture stop and the first to fifth lenses are arranged in this order from the object side, and a conditional expression 1 being 0.50<f1/f<0.76 is satisfied, where f1 represents the focal length of the first lens and f represents the focal length of the entire imaging lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8526117
    Abstract: A zoom lens including first to fifth lens units in order from an object side toward an image. The refractive powers of the first to the fifth lens units are positive, negative, positive, negative and positive, respectively. The distance between the first and the second lens units is increased at the time of zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, and the distance between the second and the third lens unit is decreased at the time of zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The first lens unit and the fourth lens unit are fixed for the zooming. When M2 and M3 are the amounts of movement of the second lens unit and the third lens unit at the time of zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end, respectively, the conditional expression; 0.2<|M2/M3|<5.0 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Shinohara, Akihisa Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 8520124
    Abstract: The image pickup lens is composed of, in order from the object side, an aperture stop; a first lens with positive refractive power, including a convex surface facing the object side; a second lens with negative refractive power, including a concave surface facing an image side; a third lens with positive refractive power, including a convex surface facing the image side; a fourth lens with positive refractive power, having a meniscus shape including a convex surface facing the image side; and a fifth lens with negative refractive power, including a concave surface facing the image side. The image pickup lens satisfies conditional expressions relating to curvature radiuses of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth lens, a distance on an optical axis from the aperture stop to a focal point at the image side, and a focal length of the total system of the image pickup lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuichi Ozaki
  • Patent number: 8514500
    Abstract: This invention provides an imaging lens system in order from an object side to an image side comprising five 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; a plastic third lens element having at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; a plastic fourth lens element having a concave image side surface, at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a plastic fifth lens element having a convex object side surface and a convex image-side surface, at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric. By such arrangement, especially with the fourth lens element having the concave image side surface, the imaging lens system can correct peripheral rays while further improving the image resolution thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8514502
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Shan Chen
  • Patent number: 8514501
    Abstract: An optical image 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 first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The third lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface. The fourth lens element with refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, wherein the surfaces of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein the surfaces of the fifth lens element are aspheric, and the fifth lens element has inflection points formed on at least one of surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Shan Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8498061
    Abstract: An image pickup lens has a configuration of five lenses whose aberrations are corrected favorably despite its compactness compared to a conventional type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.
    Inventor: Eigo Sano
  • Patent number: 8493673
    Abstract: A lens module includes a barrel, a first lens, a second lens, and a spacer. The first lens and the second lens are received in the barrel from an object side to an image side of the lens module. Each lens includes an optical portion and a non-optical portion around the optical portion. The spacer is positioned between the non-optical portion of the first lens and the non-optical portion of the second lens. The second lens includes an image-side surface. The non-optical portion on the image-side surface includes a contact portion. The contact portion defines a triangular notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shih-Chieh Yen
  • Patent number: 8456757
    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 with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power is made of plastic material, and has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The fifth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic material, and has a convex image-side surface. At least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the third lens element, the fourth lens element and the fifth lens element are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8456758
    Abstract: This invention provides an image capturing lens system in order from an object side to an image side comprising five 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; a third lens element with both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; a plastic fourth lens element with both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a plastic fifth lens element 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. By such arrangement, the lens system of the invention has larger chief ray angle, and thereby not only the total track length of the system can be reduced, but also better image quality can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsuan Huang, Chih-Wen Hsu
  • Patent number: 8456759
    Abstract: A lens system includes a first to fifth lenses. The second and fifth lenses have negative refractive power and the others have positive refractive power. The lens system satisfies: D/TTL>1.05; Z/Y>0; G3R1/F3>G1R1/F1>0; G1R2/F1<G3R2/F3<0; and G5R1/F5<G5R2/F5<0, where D is the diameter of the optical images of the lens system, TTL is the total length of the lens system, Z is the distance between the outer periphery of an image-side surface of the fourth lens to the center of an object-side surface of the fourth lens, Y is the distance between the outer periphery of the fourth lens to the center of the fourth lens, G1R1, G2R2, G3R1, G3R2, G5R1 G5R2 are the radii of curvature of the object-side and image-side surfaces of the first, third, fifth lenses, respectively, and F1, F3, F5 are focal lengths of the first, third, fifth lenses, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Wcube Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Cheng Ko
  • Patent number: 8437092
    Abstract: An optical unit includes a first lens, a diaphragm, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The first lens is a positive meniscus lens which is convex toward an object side. The second lens has a positive power. The third lens has a negative power. The fourth lens has a positive power. The fifth lens has a negative power. Those are arranged in the stated order from the object side to an image plane side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiko Baba
  • Patent number: 8432621
    Abstract: It is preferable that an image forming optical system includes in order from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a negative refractive power, and a subsequent lens group having a positive refractive power as a whole, and that the third lens group includes only a cemented lens having a negative refractive power, which includes a positive lens and a negative lens in order from the object side. Moreover, it is preferable that a cemented surface of the cemented lens in the third lens group has a shape which is convex toward an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Ayami Imamura
  • Publication number: 20130050848
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical system. The optical system includes first to fifth lenses sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side. The optical system satisfies 1.5<n2<1.55, 50<v2<70, and 20<v3<30 in which n2 represents a refractive index of the second lens, v2 represents an abbe number of the second lens, and v3 represents an abbe number of the third lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang Hun Lee
  • Publication number: 20130050846
    Abstract: An optical image capturing lenses includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front lens group, a stop, and a rear lens group. The front lens group includes, in order from the object side to the image side, at least a first lens element and a second lens element. The first lens element has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The rear lens group includes, in order from the object side to the image side, at least a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element. The sixth lens element is made of plastic material. The object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens are aspheric. The sixth 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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan HUANG
  • Patent number: 8379325
    Abstract: An photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power, a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a plastic third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave aspheric object-side surface and a convex aspheric image-side surface, a plastic fourth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave aspheric object-side surface and a convex aspheric image-side surface and a plastic fifth lens element having an aspheric object-side surface and an aspheric image-side surface. By adjusting the focal lengths of the second and the fourth lens element and the photographing optical lens assembly, and the curvature radii of the object-side and the image-side surface of the second lens element, the photographing optical lens assembly is miniaturized, and the image quality is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Publication number: 20130027787
    Abstract: A lens module includes a barrel, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and two spacers. The first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are received in the barrel from an object side to an image side of the lens module. Each lens includes an optical portion and a non-optical portion around the optical portion. The two spacers are respectively positioned on the non-optical portions of two adjacent lenses. The non-optical portion of the second lens includes a first contact portion and two second contact portions. The first contact portion contacts an inner sidewall of the barrel. The second contact portions respectively contact the first lens and the third lens and are arranged in an acute angle with respect to an optical axis of the lens module. The non-optical portion of the second lens excluding the first contact portion and the second contact portions is nebulized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SHIH-CHIEH YEN
  • Publication number: 20130027788
    Abstract: A lens module includes a barrel, a first lens, a second lens, and a spacer. The first lens and the second lens are received in the barrel from an object side to an image side of the lens module. Each lens includes an optical portion and a non-optical portion around the optical portion. The spacer is positioned between the non-optical portion of the first lens and the non-optical portion of the second lens. The second lens includes an image-side surface. The non-optical portion on the image-side surface includes a contact portion. The contact portion defines a triangular notch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SHIH-CHIEH YEN
  • Patent number: 8345358
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image-capturing optical lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side, a front lens group, a stop, and a rear lens group. The front lens group comprises, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; and a second lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The rear lens group comprises, in order from the object side to the image side: a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens element with negative refractive power; and a fifth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Largen Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Wen Hsu, Ming-Ta Chou, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 8339718
    Abstract: This invention provides an optical lens system comprising: a first lens element with positive refractive power; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric; a plastic fourth lens element having at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric; a plastic fifth lens element having a concave image-side surface, at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric, and at least one inflection point is formed on at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof. By such arrangement, photosensitivity and total track length of the system can be reduced, and the aberration and astigmatism of the system can be effectively corrected. Moreover, high image resolution can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Ming-Ta Chou, Tsung-Han Tsai