+ - + Arrangement Patents (Class 359/785)
  • Patent number: 11885930
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a stop, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and an IR band-pass filter, wherein half of a maximum view angle (field of view) of the optical lens assembly is HFOV, a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the third lens is R6, a focal length of the optical lens assembly is f, and following condition is satisfied: ?6.83<HFOV/(R6/f)<44.10, which is favorable to the thinning and large field of view of the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NEWMAX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Sheng Lee, Chi-Chang Wang
  • Patent number: 11714266
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a projection lens, which sequentially includes a first lens, a second lens and a third lens from an image source side to an imaging side along an optical axis. The first lens has a positive refractive power, and a surface near the image source side thereof is a convex surface. The second lens has a positive refractive power or negative refractive power. The third lens has a positive refractive power is a meniscus lens of which a surface near the imaging side is a convex surface. An image source height ImgH of the projection lens and a total effective focal length f of the projection lens meet ImgH/f<0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SUNNY OPTICAL, CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xinquan Wang, Lin Huang
  • Patent number: 11480768
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; and an eighth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 2.40?f1/f?3.50; f2?0.00; and 1.55?n4?1.70, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens; and n4 denotes a refractive index of the fourth lens. The present disclosure can achieve high optical performance while achieving ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having a big aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhanli Guo
  • Patent number: 11454787
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; and an eighth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 5.00?f1/f?6.50; f2?0; and 1.55?n6?1.70, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens; f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens; and n6 denotes a refractive index of the sixth lens. The present disclosure can achieve ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having a big aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Kang Wang
  • Patent number: 10422978
    Abstract: A camera lens is disclosed. The camera lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with a positive refractive power, a second lens with a negative refractive power, and a third lens with a positive refractive power. The camera lens further satisfies specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: AAC Technologies Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Rongbao Shi
  • Patent number: 10353179
    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, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, wherein at least one surface of the fifth lens element is aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein at least one surface of the sixth lens element is aspheric, and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element has at least one inflection point thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Shan Chen, Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 10018827
    Abstract: An objective optical system for endoscope includes, in order from an object side, a front lens group having a negative refractive power as a whole, an aperture stop, and a rear lens group having a positive refractive power as a whole. The front lens group includes, in order from the object side, a single first lens having a negative refractive power and a single second lens having a positive refractive power. The rear lens group includes a single third lens having a positive refractive power, and a cemented lens of a fourth lens having a positive refractive power and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. An object-side surface of the first lens is a flat surface, the second lens has a meniscus shape having a convex surface directed toward an image side, and the third lens has a biconvex shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuaki Ushio
  • Patent number: 9995925
    Abstract: In order to obtain an observation optical system which has high optical performance while having a wide field of view, and can easily reduce variation of aberration at the time when an eye relief has changed, the present invention provides an observation optical system which is used for an observer to observe an image displayed on an image display surface, and includes in order from an observation side to an image displaying surface side: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; and a third lens having a positive refractive power, wherein a focal length f1 of the first lens, a focal length f2 of the second lens and a focal length f3 of the third lens are each appropriately set so as to satisfy the conditional expression of: 0.40 < f ? ? 1 - f ? ? 2 × f ? ? 3 < 0.80 .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroki Ebe
  • Patent number: 9651768
    Abstract: An eyepiece lens consists of, in order from the observed object M side, a first spherical lens having a positive refractive power, a second spherical lens having a negative refractive power, and a third lens having a positive refractive power with at least the observed object-side surface thereof having an aspheric shape. The eyepiece lens satisfies the condition expression below: 0.0095<A3o/f3<0.0500??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Saito
  • Patent number: 9632287
    Abstract: A lens module may include a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power; a sixth lens having negative refractive power; and a seventh lens having refractive power and one or more inflection points formed in locations thereof not crossing an optical axis, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, the sixth lens and the seventh lens are disposed in a sequential order from the first lens to the seventh lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyu Min Chae
  • Patent number: 9454062
    Abstract: An observation optical system for observing an object includes, in order from the object side: a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power and a concave surface facing the object side; and a third lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface facing an eyepoint side. An aspherical surface is included on at least one lens surface, and given conditional expressions are satisfied, thereby providing a compact observation optical system having excellent optical performance, a viewfinder equipped with the observation optical system, and a method for manufacturing the observation optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Taku Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9164291
    Abstract: The optical system includes, in order from an object side, a front lens unit LF, an aperture stop S, a rear lens unit LR. The front lens unit includes a diffraction optical element Ldoe. A stop side positive lens Lsp disposed closest to the aperture stop among the rear lens unit satisfies 1.55?Ndsp?1.70, 30.0??dsp?50.0, and 5.0×10?4???dCsp?5.0×10?3. Ndsp and ?dsp repectively represent a refractive index and an Abbe number of the stop side positive lens for a d-line, and ??dCsp is represents a value defined by ??dCsp=?dCsp?(?0.17041×?gdsp+0.513577) where Ngsp, NCsp and NFsp respectively represent refractive indices of the stop side positive lens for a g-line, a C-line and an F-line. ?dCsp and ?gdsp are respectively defined by ?dCsp=(Ndsp?NCsp)/(NFsp?NCsp) and ?gdsp=(Ngsp?Ndsp)/(NFsp?NCsp).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroto Yasui
  • Patent number: 9091793
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; and a third lens having positive refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. Further, the first lens is formed in a shape so that a curvature radius of a surface thereof on the object side is positive. The second lens is formed in a shape so that a curvature radius of a surface thereof on the object side is negative and a curvature radius of a surface thereof on the image plane side is positive. The third lens is formed in a shape so that a curvature radius of a surface thereof on the object side and a curvature radius of a surface thereof on the image plane side are both positive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignees: OPTICAL LOGIC INC., KANTATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Ichiro Kurihara, Tomohiro Yonezawa
  • Patent number: 9042025
    Abstract: In order from the object side, a first lens having positive power with a convex observation-side surface, a second lens having negative power and a meniscus shape with a concave object-side surface, and a third lens having positive power with an observation-side surface having a smaller radius of curvature than that of an object-side surface are provided. The first, second and third lenses are single lenses. The conditional expressions (1): 0.9<f1/f3<5.0, (2): 10.0<TL<17.0 and (3): 15.0<f<25.0 are satisfied at the same time, where f1 is a focal length of the first lens, f3 is a focal length of the third lens, f is a focal length of the entire system, and TL is a distance along an optical axis from an object-side lens surface of the first lens to the observation-side lens surface of the third lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Sato, Michio Cho
  • Publication number: 20150085387
    Abstract: Provided is a photographing lens (ML) including a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power, and a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power, the photographing lens being configured such that the second lens group (G2) moves along the optical axis upon focusing from an object at infinity to an object at a finite distance. The first lens group (G1) includes a front lens group (G1a) and a rear lens group (G1b) having a longest air interval from the front lens group (G1a) in the first lens group (G1), and the second lens group (G2) includes a negative lens (L21) and a cemented lens in which a positive lens (22) and a negative lens (23) are cemented in order from the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Satoshi MIWA
  • Patent number: 8953260
    Abstract: A telephoto lens system including a first lens group having a positive refractive power and including a negative lens that is disposed closest to an object side and has a meniscus shape that is convex toward the object side; a second lens group having a negative refractive power and including a single negative lens that moves along an optical axis and performs focusing; and a third lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein the first through third lens groups are disposed sequentially from the object side toward the image side, and the telephoto lens system satisfies the following condition, 0.5<|f2/f|<0.81, wherein, f2 denotes the focal length of the second lens group, and f denotes the focal length of the telephoto lens system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong-su Kim
  • Patent number: 8941921
    Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, and a third lens group having positive refractive power. The second lens group is moved upon carrying out focusing from an infinitely distant object to a close object, at least a portion of the third lens group is moved in a direction including a component perpendicular to an optical axis, and given conditional expressions is satisfied. Accordingly, an optical system excellently suppressing variations in aberrations generated upon vibration reduction, an optical apparatus equipped therewith, and a method for manufacturing the optical system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Ito, Issei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8934182
    Abstract: A lens system comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G1; and a second lens group G2 having positive refractive power; the first lens group G1 including a sub-lens group GS11 having positive refractive power, and a sub-lens group GS12 having negative refractive power, the sub-lens group GS12 having negative refractive power including a meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the object side, given conditions being satisfied, thereby providing a lens system having high optical performance with excellently correcting various aberrations, and an optical apparatus equipped therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Obama
  • Patent number: 8908297
    Abstract: A fixed focus lens comprising, sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; and a third lens group having a positive refractive power. The first lens group includes an aperture stop. The second lens group is configured by a single lens element. During focusing, the second lens group moves along an optical axis and the first lens group and the third lens group are fixed with respect to an imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Adachi, Yasuhiko Obikane, Takahiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 8879169
    Abstract: This invention provides an image capturing lens system comprising three non-cemented lens elements with refractive power: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, and both the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric; a plastic second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and both the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric; and a plastic third lens element having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, and both the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric. By such arrangement, the space of the image capturing lens system can be allocated much more properly and thereby an image capturing lens system with shorter total track length can be obtained while retaining superior image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dung-Yi Hsieh, Tsung-Han Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8873159
    Abstract: A telephoto lens system includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, and comprising at least three positive lenses and one negative lens; a second lens group having a negative refractive power, and which moves along an optical axis to perform a focusing operation; a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and comprising a cemented lens in which a positive lens having a convex surface toward the object side and a positive lens having a convex surface toward the image side are bonded to each other, a bi-convex positive lens, and a negative lens having a concave surface toward the object side, and the first through third lens groups are disposed sequentially from the object side to the image side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuji Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 8830598
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a subminiature optical system including: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group having positive refractive power, wherein the second lens group is configured of a plurality of lenses of which facing surfaces are bonded to each other and the following Conditional Equation is satisfied: n1, n3>1.7??[Conditional Equation].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Young Kim
  • Publication number: 20140233110
    Abstract: Manufacturing errors are suppressed, a variable magnification function is provided, and good observation with aberrations appropriately corrected is performed. Provided is an endoscope objective lens including, in order from an object side, a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, and a positive third lens group, in which the first lens group has a meniscus lens; and a normal observation state (wide angle end) and a magnifying observation state (telephoto end) can be switched between by moving the second lens group on the optical axis, and the following conditions are satisfied; ?9<f2/fW<?3.5 4.5<|fM/fW|<8.3 where fM represents the focal distance of the meniscus lens, fW represents the entire focal distance for the normal observation, and f2 represents the focal distance of the second lens group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventor: Nobuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 8810930
    Abstract: A projection lens PL comprises, in order from a projection side: a first lens component L1 which has positive refractive power and is biconvex; a second lens component L2 which has negative refractive power and is meniscus; and a third lens component L3 which has positive refractive power and has a convex lens surface facing the projection side, lens surfaces on the projection side and an object side of the first lens component L1 and lens surfaces on the projection side and the object side of the second lens component L2 being aspherical, and the following conditional expression being satisfied: 0.2<f/(?f2)<0.7 where f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens component, and f denotes a focal length of the projection lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8797658
    Abstract: This invention provides a capturing lens system in order from an object side to an image side comprising: a first lens element with positive refractive power; a plastic second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric; and a plastic third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, both the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric, and at least one inflection point is formed on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof. Additionally, the central thickness of the second lens element is controlled favorably for the efficient spatial arrangement of the lens assembly and the simpler individual lens production while assuring suitable thickness of the second lens element, thereby assuring high image quality and improving yield rate of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 8773773
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging lens, including, in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having negative (?) refractive power and having a meniscus shape concavely formed at an object side surface, and a third lens having positive (+) refractive power and having an aspheric shape. An object side surface and an image side surface of the third lens can each have an inflection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seonyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 8749893
    Abstract: An inner focus lens, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the second lens unit is moved along an optical axis so that focusing from an infinite-distance object side to a short-distance object side is achieved, the first lens unit includes a bi-convex air lens, and the following conditions: 0.65<|f2/f|<5.00 and 0.5<f23/f1<9.0 (f2: a focal length of the second lens unit, f and f23: a focal length of the entire system and a composite focal length of the second and third lens units in an infinity in-focus condition, f1: a focal length of the first lens unit) are satisfied; an interchangeable lens apparatus; and a camera system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Koji Hoshi, Hitoshi Hagimori
  • Publication number: 20140055558
    Abstract: A wide-angle lens system is formed, sequentially from an object side, with a first group having a positive power, a second group having a negative power and a third group having a positive power, and at the time of focusing, only the second group is moved on an optical axis. The lens system satisfies conditional formulas of 0.3<BH1/T1<0.7 and 0.9<f3/f<1.8 (where BH1 is a distance from the final surface of the first group to a principal point position on the back side of the first group, T1 is a distance on the optical axis from a lens element surface of the first group closest to the side of the object to a lens element surface closest to the side of the image, f3 is the focal length of the third group and f is the focal length of the entire system).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventor: Yoshihito SOUMA
  • Publication number: 20140049845
    Abstract: A fixed focus lens comprising, sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; and a third lens group having a positive refractive power. The first lens group includes an aperture stop. The second lens group is configured by a single lens element. During focusing, the second lens group moves along an optical axis and the first lens group and the third lens group are fixed with respect to an imaging plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: TAMRON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki ADACHI, Yasuhiko Obikane, Takahiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 8630047
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens; a second lens; and a third lens. A curvature radius of an object-side surface and an image plane-side surface of the first lens is positive. The second lens is formed such that a curvature radius of an object-side surface is negative and a curvature radius of an image plane-side surface is positive. A curvature radius of an object-side surface and an image plane-side surface of the third lens is positive. When the first lens has a focal length f1, the second lens has a focal length f2, the third lens has a focal length f3, a composite focal length of the first lens and the second lens is f12, and a composite focal length of the second lens and the third lens is f23, the imaging lens satisfies the following expressions: f1<|f2| f1<f3 ?1.0<f12/f23<?0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignees: Optical Logic Inc., Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoji Kubota, Kenichi Kubota, Hitoshi Hirano, Ichiro Kurihara, Yoshio Ise
  • Patent number: 8587879
    Abstract: A fixed focus lens comprising, sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; and a third lens group having a positive refractive power. The first lens group includes an aperture stop. The second lens group is configured by a single lens element. During focusing, the second lens group moves along an optical axis and the first lens group and the third lens group are fixed with respect to an imaging plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Tamron Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Adachi, Yasuhiko Obikane, Takahiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 8582216
    Abstract: An image lens module includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and an image plane and satisfies: FB/TTL>0.16, G1R1/F1>1.04, and D1/D2<4.47. FB is a distance between an apex of an image-side surface of the third lens and the image plane. TTL is a distance between an object-side surface of the first lens and the image plane. G1R2 is a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the first lens. F1 is focal length of the first lens. D1 is a distance between the end of the effective diameter of an image-side surface of the second lens and an optical axis of the image lens module in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. D2 is a distance between the end of the effective diameter of the image-side surface of the second lens and an apex of the image-side surface of the second lens along the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Cheng Ko
  • Patent number: 8582219
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly for image capture, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprises: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, the second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surfaces and a convex image-side surface, the third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. Additionally, the optical lens assembly for image capture can satisfy several conditions. By such arrangements, the optical assembly for image capture can effectively correct the aberration and be applied to a compact image pickup device for image capturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co.
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Dung Yi Hsieh, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Publication number: 20130293767
    Abstract: An inner focus lens, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the second lens unit is moved along an optical axis so that focusing from an infinite-distance object side to a short-distance object side is achieved, the first lens unit includes a bi-convex air lens, and the following conditions: 0.65<|f2/f|<5.00 and 0.5<f23/f1<9.0 (f2: a focal length of the second lens unit, f and f23: a focal length of the entire system and a composite focal length of the second and third lens units in an infinity in-focus condition, f1: a focal length of the first lens unit) are satisfied; an interchangeable lens apparatus; and a camera system are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Takuya IMAOKA, Koji HOSHI, Hitoshi HAGIMORI
  • Patent number: 8570667
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly for image capture, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surfaces and a convex image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power having bi-convex surface. Additionally, the optical lens assembly for image capture satisfies several desirable conditions. By such arrangements, the optical assembly for image capture can effectively correct the aberration and be used as a compact image pickup device for image taking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Ming-Ta Chou, Tsung-Han Tsai
  • Publication number: 20130235475
    Abstract: An image lens module includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and an image plane and satisfies: FB/TTL>0.16, G1R1/F1>1.04, and D1/D2<4.47. FB is a distance between an apex of an image-side surface of the third lens and the image plane. F1 is a distance between an object-side surface of the first lens and the image plane. G1R2 is a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the first lens. F1 is focal length of the first lens. D1 is a distance between the end of the effective diameter of an image-side surface of the second lens and an optical axis of the image lens module in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. D2 is a distance between the end of the effective diameter of the image-side surface of the second lens and an apex of the image-side surface of the second lens along the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: CHUN-CHENG KO
  • Patent number: 8508855
    Abstract: A projection lens is composed of a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, and a positive third lens group, which are sequentially arranged from the magnification side of the projection lens, and the reduction side of the projection lens is telecentric. Further, the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied: 0.30?d23/f3?0.65??(1); and 10?|D12/ff|??(2), where d23: space in air between the second lens group and the third lens group, f3: focal length of the third lens group, D12: total length of the first lens group and the second lens group in the direction of an optical axis, and ff: length from the most magnification-side surface in the entire system of the projection lens to a magnification-side focus position of the entire system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Chikara Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8508866
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes, from an object-side to an image-side: a first lens of positive refractive power with a convex surface on the object-side, an aperture stop, a second lens of negative refractive power with a convex surface on the image-side and a meniscus shape, a third lens of positive refractive power with a convex surface on the object-side and a meniscus shape. Specified conditions are satisfied in order to enhance a high brightness and reduce aberrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignees: AAC Technologies Japan R&D Center, AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Teraoka
  • Patent number: 8503096
    Abstract: An inner focus lens, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; and a third lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the second lens unit is moved along an optical axis so that focusing from an infinite-distance object side to a short-distance object side is achieved, the first lens unit includes a bi-convex air lens, and the following conditions: 0.65<|f2/f|<5.00 and 0.5<f23/f1<9.0 (f2: a focal length of the second lens unit, f and f23: a focal length of the entire system and a composite focal length of the second and third lens units in an infinity in-focus condition, f1: a focal length of the first lens unit) are satisfied; an interchangeable lens apparatus; and a camera system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Imaoka, Koji Hoshi, Hitoshi Hagimori
  • Patent number: 8498063
    Abstract: A telephoto lens system including a first lens group having a positive refractive power and including at least three positive lenses and one negative lens; a second lens group having a negative refractive power and for performing focusing by moving along an optical axis; and a third lens group having a positive refractive power and including a 3a sub-lens group with positive refractive power and a 3b sub-lens group), wherein the 3a sub-lens group includes a negative lens and a positive lens sequentially arranged from an object side d, the 3b sub-lens group includes a positive lens and a negative lens sequentially arranged from the object side, and the telephoto lens system satisfies a condition, 0.17<fb/f<0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shuji Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 8498065
    Abstract: A lens system comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G1; and a second lens group G2 having positive refractive power; the first lens group G1 including a sub-lens group GS11 having positive refractive power, and a sub-lens group GS12 having negative refractive power, the sub-lens group GS12 having negative refractive power including a meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the object side, given conditions being satisfied, thereby providing a lens system having high optical performance with excellently correcting various aberrations, and an optical apparatus equipped therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Obama
  • Patent number: 8493668
    Abstract: The present invention provides a micro-projection lens including first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group arranged in sequence along an optical axis from a screen side to a light modulator side. The first lens group has positive refractive power and includes at least an aspheric lens. The second lens group has negative refractive power and includes at least a glass tablet. The third lens group has positive refractive power and includes at least an aspheric lens. Therefore, the micro-projection lens of the present invention has a small size and high optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Asia Optical Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Hong Chen, Yu-Hsiang Huang
  • Publication number: 20130155528
    Abstract: An optical lens system for image taking includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface with the at least one surface being aspheric, and a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface with the at least one surface being aspheric. The image-side surface of the third lens element includes at least one inflection point. By adjusting spacing between any two lens elements, the optical lens system for image taking has a desirable space allocation and can effectively correct the Petzval Sum in order to obtain superior imaging quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tsung-Han Tsai, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Patent number: 8462449
    Abstract: An optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, 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 convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. By adjusting the conditions among the above-mentioned lens elements, the optical lens assembly can favorably reduce its size and correct the aberration while obtaining superior imaging quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu, Ming-Ta Chou
  • Publication number: 20130063830
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a subminiature optical system including: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group having positive refractive power, wherein the second lens group is configured of a plurality of lenses of which facing surfaces are bonded to each other and the following Conditional Equation is satisfied: n1, n3>1.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Young KIM
  • Patent number: 8390937
    Abstract: A zoom lens comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power; a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power; and a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power; each distance between said lens groups adjacent to each other changing upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, said first lens group G1 having a cemented lens including a negative lens L11, and said third lens group G3 having a cemented lens L32 and L33, and a given conditional expression being satisfied, thereby providing a downsized zoom lens having high optical performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventor: Norio Murayama
  • Publication number: 20130050852
    Abstract: An imaging lens includes a first lens; a second lens; and a third lens. A curvature radius of an object-side surface and an image plane-side surface of the first lens is positive. The second lens is formed such that a curvature radius of an object-side surface is negative and a curvature radius of an image plane-side surface is positive. A curvature radius of an object-side surface and an image plane-side surface of the third lens is positive. When the first lens has a focal length f1, the second lens has a focal length f2, the third lens has a focal length f3, a composite focal length of the first lens and the second lens is f12, and a composite focal length of the second lens and the third lens is f23, the imaging lens satisfies the following expressions: f1<|f2| f1<f3 ?1.0<f12/f23<?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Yoji KUBOTA, Kenichi KUBOTA, Hitoshi HIRANO, Ichiro KURIHARA, Yoshio ISE
  • Patent number: 8385009
    Abstract: A scanner lens includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The first lens is provided with a first focal length. The first, second, and third lenses are sequentially arranged from an object end to an imaging end and are respectively provided with a plus diopter, a minus diopter, and a plus diopter. At least one of the first, second, and third lenses comprises an aspheric lens. The ratio of the first focal length to a system focal length of the scanner lens ranges between 1 and 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Asia Optical International Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Hong Chen, Jian-Wei Lee
  • Patent number: 8379327
    Abstract: An optical system comprises, in order from the object side, an aperture stop, a first lens with positive refracting power, a second lens with negative refracting power, and a third lens, both surfaces of the third lens are an aspherical surface in which refracting power varies in accordance with distance from the optical axis in such a way that the both surfaces have a convex shape facing toward the object side in the vicinity of the optical axis and have a concave shape facing toward the object side in the vicinity of the outer circumference, and the following conditions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 2.2<d2/d3<7??(1) ?0.04<f/f3<0.04??(2) where d2 is the thickness of the first lens on the optical axis, d3 is a space distance between the first and second lenses on the optical axis, f is a focal length of the whole of the wide angle optical system, and f3 is a focal length of the third lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Goto, Akio Michinaka, Takahiro Amanai
  • Patent number: 8339715
    Abstract: A three-piece optical pickup lens includes, sequentially from an object side to an image side of the three-piece optical pickup lens along an optical axis thereof, an aperture stop, a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The first lens is a meniscus lens of positive refractive power. The second lens has an object side and an image side, on each of which at least one inflection point is formed at a position located between a center and a periphery of the second lens. The third lens has an object side and an image side, on each of which at least one inflection point is formed at a position located between a center and a periphery of the third lens, and has positive refractive power at paraxial region of optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: E-Pin Optical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Yuan Shih, San-Woei Shyu