Imaging lens and image pickup device
View Patent ↗An imaging lens includes in order from an object side, a stop and a first lens to a fourth lens. Both the surfaces of a third lens have surfaces including at least one inflection point, and an inclination of each surface at the terminal end part of a periphery within an effective diameter collapses toward the image side. And 0.1<D 3 /D 4 <2.0, νd 1 −νd 2 >25, 0.4<f 1 /f 3 <1.6 and 0.3<f/f 3 <1.5 are satisfied, where D 3 is an air space on an optical axis between the first lens and the second lens, D 4 is a central thickness of the second lens, νd 1 and νd 2 are Abbe numbers of the first lens and the second lens, f 1 and f 3 are focal lengths of the first lens and the third lens and f is a focal length of an entire system.
1. An imaging lens comprising, in order from an object side;
a stop;
a first lens including a positive lens having a convex surface directed to the object side;
a second lens that includes, near an optical axis, a negative meniscus shape with a concave surface directed to an image side;
a third lens that has, near the optical axis, a meniscus shape or a flat convex shape with a convex surface directed to the image side; and
a fourth lens that includes a negative lens having, near the optical axis, a concave surface directed to the image side,
wherein a surface of the second lens located on the object side has an aspheric shape having at least one inflection point,
wherein surfaces of the third lens each has aspheric shape including at least one inflection point,
wherein a sag amount of each of the surfaces of the third lens at the terminal end part of a periphery within an effective diameter increases with a surface height from the optical axis and,
conditional expressions are satisfied:
0.1< D 3 /D 4<2.0 (1)
ν d 1−ν d 2>25 (2)
0.4 <f 1 /f 3<1.6 (3)
0.8 <f/f 3<1.4 (4B)
where
D 3 denotes an air space on the optical axis between the first lens and the second lens,
D 4 denotes a central thickness of the second lens,
νd 1 denotes an Abbe number of the first lens at the d-line,
νd 2 denotes an Abbe number of the second lens at the d-line,
f 1 is a focal length of the first lens,
f 3 is a focal length of the third lens, and
f is a focal length of a whole system.
2. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , further comprising:
at least another stop is detachably inserted to the optical axis nearer to the object side than the stop.
3. The imaging lens according to claim 2 , wherein the diameters of the stop and said another stop are fixed and
the diameter of said another stop is smaller than the diameter of the stop.
4. The imaging lens according to claim 2 , wherein the first lens is a glass lens.
5. The imaging lens according to claim 4 , wherein a surface of the fourth lens located on the image side has an aspheric shape having two or more inflection points and a positive power in a periphery part of the fourth lens.
6. The imaging lens according to claim 2 , wherein a surface of the fourth lens located on the image side has an aspheric shape having two or more inflection points and a positive power in a periphery part of the fourth lens.
7. An image pickup device comprising:
the imaging lens according to claim 2 and
an image pickup element that outputs an image pickup signal corresponding to an optical image formed by the imaging lens.
8. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens is a glass lens.
9. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a surface of the fourth lens located on the image side has an aspheric shape having two or more inflection points and a positive power in a periphery part of the fourth lens.
10. An image pickup device comprising:
the imaging lens according to claim 1 and
an image pickup element that outputs an image pickup signal corresponding to an optical image formed by the imaging lens.
11. An imaging lens comprising, in order from an object side;
a stop;
a first lens including a positive lens having a convex surface directed to the object side;
a second lens that includes, near an optical axis, a negative meniscus shape with a concave surface directed to an image side;
a third lens that has, near the optical axis, a biconvex shape; and
a fourth lens that includes a negative lens having, near the optical axis, a concave surface directed to the image side,
wherein surfaces of the third lens each has aspheric shape including at least one inflection point,
the inclination of each of the surfaces of the third lens at the terminal end part of a periphery within an effective diameter directs toward the image side with respect to the optical axis and, conditional expressions are satisfied:
0.1< D 3 /D 4<2.0 (1)
ν d 1−ν d 2>25 (2)
0.4 <f 1 /f 3<1.6 (3)
0.4 <f/f 3<0.7 (4C)
where
D 3 denotes an air space on the optical axis between the first lens and the second lens,
D 4 denotes a central thickness of the second lens,
νd 1 denotes an Abbe number of the first lens at the d-line,
νd 2 denotes an Abbe number of the second lens at the d-line,
f 1 is a focal length of the first lens,
f 3 is a focal length of the third lens, and
f is a focal length of a whole system.
12. The imaging lens according to claim 11 , further comprising:
at least another stop is detachably inserted to the optical axis nearer to the object side than the stop.
13. The imaging leans according to claim 12 , wherein the diameters of the stop and said another stop are fixed and
the diameter of said another stop is smaller than the diameter of the stop.
14. The imaging lens according to claim 12 , wherein the first lens is a glass lens.
15. The imaging lens according to claim 12 , wherein a surface of the second lens located on the object side has an aspheric shape having at least one inflection point.
16. The imaging lens according to claim 12 , wherein a surface of the fourth lens located in the image side has an aspheric shape having two or more inflection points and a positive power in a periphery part of the fourth lens.
17. An image pickup device comprising:
the imaging lens according to claim 11 and
an image pickup element that outputs an image pickup signal corresponding to an optical image formed by the imaging lens.