+ - + - + Arrangement Patents (Class 359/766)
  • Patent number: 11774733
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes, as lens groups, in order from the object side, only a first lens group having a positive power, a second lens group having a negative power, a third lens group having a positive power, a fourth lens group having a negative power, and a fifth lens group having a positive power. An aperture stop is disposed between a lens surface closest to the image side in the second lens group and a lens surface closest to the object side in the fourth lens group. During zooming, at least the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group move. The first lens group consists of a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the object side. The zoom lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki Kawamura, Taiga Noda
  • Patent number: 11650398
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a camera lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The first lens has a positive refractive power; the second lens has a positive refractive power; the third lens has a refractive power; the fourth lens has a refractive power and an object-side surface thereof is a convex surface; the fifth lens has a positive refractive power; and the sixth lens has a negative refractive power. Half of a diagonal length ImgH of an effective pixel area on an imaging plane of the camera lens assembly and a total effective focal length f of the camera lens assembly satisfy 0.4<ImgH/f<0.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Sunny Optical Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jianke Wenren, Lingbo He, Yuhao Wang
  • Patent number: 11347027
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a fifth lens element from an object side to an image side in order along an optical axis, and each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. An optical axis region of the image-side surface of the first lens element is concave, a periphery region of the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave, an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the fifth lens element is convex, and a periphery region of the image-side surface of the fifth lens element is convex. EFL is an effective focal length of the optical imaging lens and TTL is a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens element to an image plane along the optical axis to satisfy 1.1?EFL/TTL?1.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia-Sin Jhang, Yanxuan Yin, Yongfeng Lai
  • Patent number: 11125982
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element having refracting power arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side is provided. Twice of an Abbe number of the fourth lens element is greater than a sum of an Abbe number of the second lens element, an Abbe number of the third lens element, and an Abbe number of the fifth lens element. Other optical imaging lenses are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: GENIUS ELECTRONIC OPTICAL (XIAMEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia-Sin Jhang, Maozong Lin, JianPeng Li
  • Patent number: 10627608
    Abstract: A converter optical system includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens having negative refractive power; and a fifth lens having positive refractive power; wherein the first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed in numerical order from the first lens to the fifth lens from an object side of the converter optical system to an image side of the converter optical system; and the fourth lens is bonded to either one or both of the third lens and the fifth lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung Hui Ko
  • Patent number: 9885852
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a converter lens device that includes a first mount to which a master lens device is capable of being attached, a second mount to which a camera body is capable of being attached and a converter lens having a negative refractive power, wherein, an optical system comprising the converter lens device and the master lens device has a focal length longer than a focal length of an optical system of the master lens device, the converter lens comprises sequentially from an object side, a first lens unit of a positive refractive power, a second lens unit of a negative refractive power, and a third lens unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuji Ogata
  • Patent number: 9405099
    Abstract: There are provided a subminiature optical system having a miniature size and capable of obtaining a narrow view angle using only five sheets of lenses, and a portable device having the same. The subminiature optical system includes a first lens convex toward the object side and having positive refractive power. a second lens concave toward an image side and having negative refractive power, a third lens convex toward the object side and having positive refractive power, a fourth lens concave toward the image plane and having negative refractive power, and a fifth lens convex toward the image plane and having negative or positive refractive power, sequentially from an object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Joo Jo, Young Suk Kang
  • Patent number: 9122038
    Abstract: An imaging lens substantially consisting of a first lens group, a stop, and a second lens group in this order from the object side, the first lens group includes at least a positive lens, a negative meniscus lens with a convex surface toward the object side, a biconcave negative lens, and a cemented lens substantially constituted by two lenses, which are a positive lens and a negative lens, in this order from the object side; the second lens group includes at least a first positive lens with a convex surface toward the image side, a cemented lens substantially constituted by two lenses, which are a positive lens and a negative lens, and a second positive lens with a convex surface toward the image side, in this order from the object side; and a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masao Mori
  • Patent number: 9063253
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an imaging lens with an optical system that comprises the foremost lens group closest to an object and of positive refractivity, the succeeding middle lens group, and the rearmost lens group closest to an image plane and of negative refractivity where the middle lens group, having the first, second, and third lens subgroups disposed in series, is moved axially along the optical axis for focusing, and the foremost lens group includes at least three or more convex lens pieces and a single concave lens piece and meets predetermined requirements defined in formulae. The imaging lens has a quality image stabilizing system in which a light-weight lens piece(s) is moved in directions perpendicular to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 9025258
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens set includes: a first lens element with positive refractive power, a second lens element having an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of its periphery, a third lens element with positive refractive power, having a convex image-side surface, an object-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of its periphery, a fourth lens element having a concave object-side surface, and a plastic fifth lens element having an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The total thickness Ta1 of the all lens elements along the optical axis, all four air gaps Gaa between each lens element along the optical axis, the thickness T3 of the third lens element along the optical axis and the thickness T5 of the fifth lens element along the optical axis satisfy the relation (Ta1+Gaa)/(T3+T5)?4.00.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Genius Electronic Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Han Chen, Hung-Chien Hsieh, Chia-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 8982478
    Abstract: An imaging lens substantially includes five lenses, constituted by: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power and a convex surface that faces an object side; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power and a meniscus shape with a concave surface that faces the object side; and a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, a meniscus shape with a convex surface that faces the object side, and at least one inflection point on the surface thereof toward an image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Kondo, Michio Cho
  • Patent number: 8964308
    Abstract: An imaging 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 a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The plastic fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, wherein the surfaces are aspheric. The plastic fifth lens element has a concave image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface are aspheric, and at least one surface has at least one inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8953257
    Abstract: An image capturing lens system includes five non-cemented lens elements with refractive power, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, wherein both of the surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one inflection point is formed on the image-side surface thereof. The image capturing lens system has a total of five lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8947791
    Abstract: A large aperture zoom optical system and an image pickup apparatus have a five-lens-group arrangement of positive-negative-positive-negative-positive refractive powers. At the time of zooming, the fifth lens group is fixed, and at least the second lens group, the third lens group and the fourth lens group are moved. The third lens group for use in focusing is composed of a single lens element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoji Kogo, Yasushi Yamamoto, Kana Inoue
  • Patent number: 8922909
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an optical image capturing lens system comprising: a positive first lens element having a convex object-side surface, a negative second lens element, a positive third lens element having a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; and a positive fifth lens element having a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region thereof, both of the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric, and at least one inflection point is positioned on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof. When particular relations are satisfied, the angle at which light projects onto the image plane can be efficiently controlled for increasing the relative illumination and preventing the occurrence of vignetting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ming Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8908285
    Abstract: The zoom lens includes a front unit including a first positive lens unit and a second positive or negative lens unit, a reflective mirror and a rear unit including two or more lens units. During zooming, the reflective mirror is not moved, and the first lens unit and at least two lens units of the rear unit are moved. When the zoom lens is retracted into a body of an image pickup apparatus, at least one of rotation of the reflective mirror such that a normal line thereto is brought closer to parallel to an optical axis of the rear unit and axial movement thereof in a direction of the optical axis of the rear unit is performed. The front unit is moved into a space formed by the at least one of the rotation and the axial movement. Conditions of 10.5<ft/|fn|<30.0 and 0.80<(Lf?L)/Lm<1.30 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Wada
  • Patent number: 8896936
    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 a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power, wherein both of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, wherein both of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are aspheric. Each of the first through fifth lens elements with refractive power is single and non-cemented. The image capturing lens assembly has a total of five lens elements with refractive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8891173
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order 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. In the zoom lens, during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the first lens unit is configured to remain stationary, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fourth lens unit are configured to move separately from one another, and the aperture stop is configured to move along a locus convex towards the object side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8873169
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes first to fifth lens units arranged sequentially from object to image sides and having respective refractive powers. Compared to a wide-angle end, at a telephoto end, the distance between the first and second lens units, the distance between the third and fourth lens units, and the distance between the fourth and fifth lens units are increased, and the distance between the second and third lens units is decreased. Compared to the wide-angle end, at the telephoto end, the first lens unit is positioned closer to the object side. The first and second lens units each consist of a positive lens element and a negative lens element. The distances between the third and fourth lens units at the wide-angle and telephoto ends D34w and D34t and the focal length of the entire zoom lens at the wide-angle end fw are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norihiro Nanba
  • 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: 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: 8792181
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, first to fifth lens units respectively having positive, negative, positive, negative, and positive refractive powers. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, each of the lens units moves in such a way that a distance between the first and second lens units increases, a distance between the second and third lens units decreases, a distance between the third and fourth lens units increases, and a distance between the fourth and fifth lens units increases. The distances D34w and D34t between the third and fourth lens units, the distances D45w and D45t between the fourth and fifth lens units, focal lengths fw and ft of the entire zoom lens, and focal lengths f1 and f4 of the first and fourth lens units are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norihiro Nanba
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8786962
    Abstract: A photographing 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 with positive refractive power is made of plastic material and has a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The fourth lens element with negative 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 concave image-side surface, wherein the fifth lens element has at least one inflection point. The object-side surfaces and the image-side surfaces of the third through fifth lens elements are aspheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Shan Chen, Hsiang-Chi Tang, Po-Lun Hsu, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8780466
    Abstract: An optical 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, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element and each of the first through fifth lens elements is single and non-cemented. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and the surfaces of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, and the surfaces of the fifth lens element are aspheric. The fifth lens element has at least one inflection point formed on the image-side surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dung-Yi Hsieh, Tsung-Han Tsai, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8760775
    Abstract: An imaging lens substantially consists of five lenses of an aspheric first lens having a convex surface facing an object side and positive refractive power, an aspheric second lens having a concave surface facing the object side and negative refractive power, an aspheric third lens having a meniscus shape in which its object-side surface is convex toward the object side, and positive refractive power, an aspheric fourth lens having negative refractive power and a fifth lens having a convex surface facing the object side and positive refractive power, which are in this order from the object side. Further, the imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional formulas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Shinohara
  • 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: 8576498
    Abstract: An optical imaging lens assembly, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, the third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex image-side surface, the fourth lens element with refractive power having both optical surfaces being aspheric, the fifth lens element with refractive power having a concave image-side surface and both optical surfaces being aspheric, wherein a stop and an image sensor disposed on an image plane are also provided. By such arrangements, the image pickup optical system satisfies conditions related to shorten the total length and to reduce the sensitivity for use in compact cameras and mobile phones with camera functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co.
    Inventor: Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8547650
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging lens assembly, comprising in order from an object side toward 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 having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element with negative refractive power, a fifth lens element with positive refractive power, and an aperture stop positioned between an imaged object and the first lens element. The above lens arrangement shortens the total track length effectively, enabling a high performance imaging lens assembly with a wide field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sayuri Noda
  • 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: 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: 8441556
    Abstract: An optical system including five lens units having, in order from the object side, positive, negative, positive, negative, positive refracting powers respectively. The distances between the lens units change during zooming. The first and third lens units are located closer to the object side at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end of the zoom range. The first lens unit includes a negative lens, a first positive lens, and a second positive lens. The second lens unit includes a plurality of negative lenses and at least one positive lens. The third lens unit includes a plurality of positive lenses and at least one negative lens. The fourth and fifth lens units each include two lenses or less. The refractive indices of the at least one negative lens in the first lens unit, the at least one positive lens in the second lens unit, and the at least one negative lens in the third lens unit are not lower than 1.9. The optical system satisfies a certain condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventor: Akinori Nishio
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8339714
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprising, in order from an object side thereof, a first lens group of positive refracting power, a second lens group of negative refracting power, an aperture stop, a third lens group of positive refracting power, a fourth lens group of negative refracting power, and a fifth lens group of positive refracting power. Upon zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, at least the first lens group and the aperture stop remain fixed in position, the second and third lens groups move in the optical axis direction, and the separation between each of the lens groups and the aperture stop changes. Upon focusing from a focusing-on-infinity state to a close-range-focusing state, the fourth lens group moves in the optical axis direction, with satisfaction of the following: ?0.36<f4/f1<?0.05??(1A), where fl and f4 are the focal lengths of the first and fourth lens groups, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Tochigi, Kazuteru Kawamura, Yasuharu Yamada
  • Patent number: 8228620
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a variable focal length lens system including a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, a fourth lens group, and a fifth lens group. The first to the fifth lens groups are arranged in order from an object side. The variable focal length lens system satisfies following conditional expressions (1) to (3): 0.95<f13T/ft<1.4??(1) 0.08<f2/f4<0.3??(2) 0.06<?3/ft<0.22??(3) where f13T is combined focal length of the first to third lens groups in the telephoto end state, ft is focal length of the lens system as a whole in the telephoto end state, f2 is focal length of the second lens group, f4 is focal length of the fourth lens group, and ?3 is an amount of travel of the third lens group from the wide-angle end state to the telephoto end state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Motoyuki Ohtake, Masayuki Murata, Atsuo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8208125
    Abstract: An projection optical system for an i-line projection exposure apparatus includes positive, negative, positive, negative and positive lens units which include a lens having an Abbe number equal to or smaller than 62. 0.125?NAO, ?0.251<?<?0.249, 80 mm?|OB1max|, 20 mm?|OB2max|, |Dt/(NAO·|OB1max|)|?62.0, Dt/Td?0.645, 0.072?|OB1max|/Td| are met, where NAO is a numerical aperture on the object plane, ? is an imaging magnification, Td is a distance on an optical axis from the object plane to the image plane, Dt is a sum of thicknesses of the glass materials on the optical axis in the projection optical system, OB1max is a maximum object height on the object plane, and OB2max is a maximum image height on the image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Patent number: 8189273
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging lens assembly, comprising in order from an object side toward 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 having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element with negative refractive power, a fifth lens element with positive refractive power, and an aperture stop positioned between an imaged object and the first lens element. The above lens arrangement shortens the total track length effectively, enabling a high performance imaging lens assembly with a wide field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sayuri Noda
  • Patent number: 8179615
    Abstract: An image pickup optical lens assembly, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with negative refractive power, the third lens element with refractive power, the fourth lens element with positive or negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface with both being aspheric, and the fifth lens element with positive or negative refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface with both being aspheric. Additionally, the image pickup optical lens assembly satisfies conditions related to the reduction of the total length and the sensitivity of the image pickup optical lens assembly for compact cameras and mobile phones with camera functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Hsin-Hsuan Huang
  • Patent number: 8149516
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprises, in order 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, a third lens unit, and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. The fourth lens unit includes a forty-first lens unit having a negative refractive power and arranged at the object side with reference to the longest air gap and a forty-second lens unit having a positive refractive power and arranged at the image side with reference to the air gap. The forty-first lens unit includes a negative 411st lens, and the forty-second lens unit includes a positive 421st lens. Abbe numbers and partial dispersion ratios of materials of the 411st lens and the 421st lens ?d411, ?gF411, ?d421 and ?gF421 are appropriately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoshimi, Youtarou Sanjou
  • Patent number: 8031409
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes at least a first positive lens group, a first negative lens group that moves during focusing, a second positive lens group that moves during focusing, a second negative lens group that can move in a direction substantially vertical to an optical axis, and a positive lens group, which are disposed in order from an object, wherein a condition of an expression, which is 2.0<(?f4)/d34<20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Haruo Sato
  • Patent number: 8000031
    Abstract: This invention provides an imaging optical lens assembly including: in order from an object side toward an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power and having a convex object-side surface, a second lens with negative refractive power and having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, a third lens with positive refractive power and having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens with negative refractive power and having a concave image-side surface, the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric, and a fifth lens having a concave image-side surface, the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric. The imaging optical lens assembly further comprises an aperture stop, disposed between an imaged object and the second lens, and an electronic sensor, disposed at the image plane for image formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsung Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 7969486
    Abstract: An image-capture apparatus includes a variable magnification lens, imaging means for converting an image taken by the variable magnification lens into an electrical image signal, and imaging control means. By referring to a conversion coordinate coefficient, the image control means moves a point on the image and outputs the new image signal. In the variable magnification lens, in order from the object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group that has negative refractive power and performs a variable magnification action by shifting on an optical axis, a third lens group having positive refractive power, a fourth lens group that has negative refractive power and a fifth lens group having positive refractive power are arrayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Nanjo
  • Patent number: 7864454
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging lens system comprising, 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 third lens element with positive refractive power, at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; a fourth lens element, the image-side surface thereof being aspheric and provided with at least one inflection point; a fifth lens element having a concave object-side surface, at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; and an aperture stop disposed between an imaged object and the second lens element. Such an arrangement of optical elements can effectively reduce the total track length and sensitivity of the optical system, and image quality can also be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Chi Tang, Chun-Shan Chen, Ming-Ching Lin
  • Publication number: 20100315723
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imaging lens assembly, comprising in order from an object side toward 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 having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element with negative refractive power, a fifth lens element with positive refractive power, and an aperture stop positioned between an imaged object and the first lens element. The above lens arrangement shortens the total track length effectively, enabling a high performance imaging lens assembly with a wide field of view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: LARGAN PECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sayuri NODA
  • Patent number: 7830612
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, 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. The first to fifth lens units are arranged in order from the object side to the image side. All of the lens units are moved during zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end such that the distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is increased and the distance between the third lens unit and the fifth lens unit is increased. The refractive power of the fourth lens unit and the refractive power of the fifth lens unit are adequately set with respect to the zoom ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kanushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuaki Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 7826151
    Abstract: An optical lens system for taking image comprises, in order from the object side to the 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 third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens element with positive refractive power; a fifth lens element with refractive power; and an aperture stop located between an object to be photographed and the second lens element. In the optical lens system for taking image, the number of the lens elements with refractive power being limited to five. Such lens arrangements can effectively reduce the volume of the optical lens system, reduce the sensitivity of the optical lens system and obtain higher resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 7746571
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a large-field unit-magnification projection optical system. The optical system includes an optical axis, a spherical concave reflection mirror; a lens group with positive refracting power arranged adjacent the mirror with an air space therebetween. The lens group includes a first plano-convex lens, a negative meniscus lens adjacent the plano-convex lens, a positive lens adjacent the negative meniscus lens, a negative double-convex lens spaced apart far from the positive lens, and a second plano-convex lens. The optical system further includes a pair of prisms each having respective first and second surface. The second surfaces are arranged adjacent the flat surface of the plano-convex lens element on opposite sides of the optical axis and the first surfaces are arranged adjacent object planes and image planes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tiejun Li, Ling Huang, Jun Wei
  • Publication number: 20100085550
    Abstract: An projection optical system for an i-line projection exposure apparatus includes positive, negative, positive, negative and positive lens units which include a lens having an Abbe number equal to or smaller than 62. 0.125?NAO, ?0.251<?<?0.249, 80 mm?|OB1max|, 20 mm?|OB2max|, |Dt/(NAO·|OB1max|)|?62.0, Dt/Td?0.645, 0.072?|OB1max|/Td| are met, where NAO is a numerical aperture on the object plane, ? is an imaging magnification, Td is a distance on an optical axis from the object plane to the image plane, Dt is a sum of thicknesses of the glass materials on the optical axis in the projection optical system, OB1max is a maximum object height on the object plane, and OB2max is a maximum image height on the image plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20090244720
    Abstract: A zoom lens system has a front lens group and a rear lens group along the optical axis and in order from the object side. The rear lens group has a first lens unit having a positive refracting power, a second lens unit having a negative refracting power, and a third lens unit having a positive refracting power. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a space between the front lens group and the first lens unit varies, a space between the first lens unit and the second lens unit increases, and a space between the second lens unit and the third lens unit decreases. At least a part of the second lens unit is movable so as to have a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 7593171
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes first to fourth lens units which respectively have negative, positive, negative, and positive refractive powers in order from the object side to the image side. Distances between the first and second lens units, the second and third lens units, and the third and fourth lens units at the telephoto end are respectively smaller, larger, and smaller than those at the wide-angle end. An Abbe number ?1n and a partial dispersion ratio ?1n of a material of at least one negative lens included in the first lens unit, an Abbe number ?1p, a partial dispersion ratio ?1p, and a refractive index N1p, respectively, of a material of at least one positive lens included in the first lens unit, a focal length f1 of the first lens unit, and a focal length fw of the entire system at the wide-angle end are adequately set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Nishimura