IP Library Granted Patent US 8,422,145
Granted Patent B2
US 8,422,145 · App. 13/203,159 · Granted Apr 16, 2013

Image pickup lens for solid-state image pickup element

Inventors: Yoshio Ise (Sukagawa, JP); Masaya Hashimoto (Sukagawa, JP)
Assignee: Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,422,145
App. No.
13/203,159
Granted
Apr 16, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a low-cost, compact image pickup lens for a solid-state image pickup element. The image pickup lens includes, in the order from an object side, a first lens L 1 , which has a convex surface facing the object side on an optical axis and has a positive refractive power; a second lens L 2 , which has a concave surface facing an image side on the optical axis and has a negative refractive power; a third lens L 3 , which has a convex surface facing the object side on the optical axis and has a meniscus shape; a fourth lens L 4 , which has a convex surface facing the image side on the optical axis, has a positive refractive power, and has a meniscus shape; and a fifth lens L 5 , which has a concave surface facing the image side on the optical axis, has a negative refractive power, and has a meniscus shape.

Claims (52)

1. An image pickup lens for a solid-state image pickup element, comprising, in the order from an object side:

a first lens, which has a convex surface facing the object side on an optical axis and has a positive refractive power;

a second lens, which has a concave surface facing an image side on the optical axis and has a negative refractive power;

a third lens, which has a convex surface facing the object side on the optical axis and has a meniscus shape;

a fourth lens, which has a convex surface facing the image side on the optical axis, has a positive refractive power, and has a meniscus shape; and

a fifth lens, which has a concave surface facing the image side on the optical axis, has a negative refractive power, and has a meniscus shape.

2. The image pickup lens according to claim 1 , wherein the Abbe number of a material used for the first lens and the second lens satisfies conditional expressions (1) and (2) below:

45<ν1<90  (1)

22<ν2<35  (2)

where ν1 is the Abbe number for d-line of the first lens, and ν2 is the Abbe number for d-line of the second lens.

3. The image pickup lens according to claim 1 , wherein the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens are so-called plastic lenses that have at least one aspherical surface and are made of a resin material.

4. The image pickup lens according to claim 1 , wherein an aperture stop is positioned on the object side of the first lens.

5. The image pickup lens according to claim 1 , wherein the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens have an aspherical shape that contains at least one inflection point between the center and the periphery of the lens.

6. The image pickup lens according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens and the second lens satisfy conditional expressions (3) and (4) below:

0.5 <f 1 /f< 1.00  (3)

-1.50 <f 2 /f<− 0.65  (4)

where f is the composite focal length of lenses included in the entire image pickup lens, f 1 is the focal length of the first lens, and f 2 is the focal length of the second lens.

7. The image pickup lens according to claim 1 , wherein the fourth lens and the fifth lens satisfy conditional expressions (5) and (6) below:

0.9 <f 4 /f< 1.50  (5)

-1.70 <f 5 /f<− 0.85  (6)

where f is the composite focal length of lenses included in the entire image pickup lens, f 4 is the focal length of the fourth lens, and f 5 is the focal length of the fifth lens.

8. The image pickup lens according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens and the third lens satisfy conditional expression (7) below:

-0.15 <f 1 /f 3<0.37  (7)

where f 1 is the focal length of the first lens, and f 3 is the focal length of the third lens.

9. The image pickup lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens satisfy conditional expression (8) below:

0.0 <f 2·3·4  (8)

where f 2 · 3 · 4 is the composite focal length of the second, third, and fourth lenses.

10. The image pickup lens according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens satisfy conditional expressions (9), (10), and (11) below:

f 1 <|f 2 |<|f 3|  (9)

f 1 <f 4 <|f 3|  (10)

f 1 <|f 5 |<|f 3|  (11)

where f 1 is the focal length of the first lens, f 2 is the focal length of the second lens, f 3 is the focal length of the third lens, f 4 is the focal length of the fourth lens, and f 5 is the focal length of the fifth lens.

11. The image pickup lens according to claim 10 , wherein the curvature radius of the first lens satisfies conditional expression (12) below:

-0.40 <r 1 /r 2<0.10  (12)

where r 1 is the curvature radius of the object-side surface of the first lens, and r 2 is the curvature radius of the image-side surface of the first lens.

12. The image pickup lens according claim 10 , wherein the curvature radius of the fourth lens satisfies conditional expression (13) below:

1.4 <r 7 /r 8<3.0  (13)

where r 7 is the curvature radius of the object-side surface of the fourth lens, and r 8 is the curvature radius of the image-side surface of the fourth lens.

13. The image pickup lens according to claim 10 , wherein the optical length and focal length of an optical system thereof satisfy conditional expression (14) below:

1.05 <L/f< 1.30  (14)

where L is the distance between the front surface of the first lens and an image surface, and f is the composite focal length of lenses included in the entire image pickup lens.

14. The image pickup lens according to claim 4 , wherein the diameter of the aperture stop satisfies conditional expression (15) below:

0.30< CA 1 /f< 0.50  (15)

where CA 1 is the diameter of the aperture stop, and f is the composite focal length of lenses included in the entire image pickup lens.

15. The image pickup lens according to claim 10 , wherein the Abbe number of a material used for the first lens and the second lens satisfies conditional expressions (1) and (2) below:

45<ν1<90  (1)

22<ν2<35  (2)

where ν1 is the Abbe number for d-line of the first lens, and ν2 is the Abbe number for d-line of the second lens.

16. The image pickup lens according to claim 10 , wherein the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens are so-called plastic lenses that have at least one aspherical surface and are made of a resin material.

17. The image pickup lens according to claim 10 , wherein an aperture stop is positioned on the object side of the first lens.

18. The image pickup lens according to claim 10 , wherein the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fifth lens have an aspherical shape that contains at least one inflection point between the center and the periphery of the lens.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 31, 2011
From: ISE, YOSHIO; HASHIMOTO, MASAYA
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 026837/0051 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-084695 · Mar 31, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20110310494A1 · Dec 22, 2011