IP Library Granted Patent US 8,830,599
Granted Patent B2
US 8,830,599 · App. 14/030,623 · Granted Sep 9, 2014

Image-forming lens, and camera device and portable information terminal device with the image-forming lens

Inventors: Takashi Kubota (Suginami-ku, JP); Kazuyasu Ohashi (Funabashi, JP)
Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
G02B9/64G02B13/0045G02B13/0015G02B13/04G02B13/009
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Patent No.
US 8,830,599
App. No.
14/030,623
Granted
Sep 9, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image forming lens consists of from an object side to an image side in the following order: a first group with a positive refractive power; an aperture stop; and a second group with a positive refractive power, wherein the second group includes, from the object side to the image side in the following order, a biconvex lens, a biconcave lens, a negative meniscus lens a convex surface of which faces the image side, a biconvex lens, and a positive meniscus lens a convex surface of which faces the image side.

Claims (30)

1. An image forming lens, comprising, from an object side to an image side in the following order:

a first lens group with a positive refractive power;

an aperture stop; and

a second lens group with a positive refractive power,

wherein the second lens group includes five lenses arranged from the object side to the image side and does not include any other lenses between any two of the five lenses, the five lenses of the second lens group including:

a first biconvex lens,

a biconcave lens,

a negative meniscus lens, a convex surface of which faces the image side,

a second biconvex lens, and

a positive meniscus lens, a convex surface of which faces the image side.

2. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein at least one lens of the second lens group is a cemented lens.

3. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein in the second lens group, the negative meniscus lens and the second biconvex lens are cemented.

4. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein the first biconvex lens of the second lens group is closer to the object side than any of the other lenses in the second lens group.

5. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein a lens surface on a most image side of the first lens group and a lens surface on a most object side of the second lens group have convex shapes.

6. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein focusing to a limited object distance is performed by shifting each of the first lens group and the second lens group by a different extension amount, and an extension amount of the second lens group is larger than an extension amount of the first lens group.

7. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein D 1 ∞ , D 1 t , D 2 ∞ , and D 2 t satisfy Conditional Expression J: −1.0<Log|(D 1 ∞ −D 1 t )/(D 2 ∞ −D 2 t )|<−0.4,

where Log is taken as a common logarithm,

where D 1 ∞ represents an interval between the first group and the second group in a case where an object position is at infinity,

where D 1 t represents an interval between the first group and the second group in a case of focusing to a reference closest imaging distance,

where D 2 ∞ represents an interval between the second group and an image plane in a case where the object position is at infinity, and

where D 2 t represents an interval between the second group and the image plane in a case of focusing to the reference closest imaging.

8. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein, in the second lens group:

an absolute value of a radius of curvature on the image side is smaller than an absolute value of a radius of curvature on the object side in the first biconvex lens,

an absolute value of a radius of curvature on the object side is smaller than an absolute value of a radius of curvature on the image side in the biconcave lens that is cemented with the biconvex lens, and

an absolute value of a radius of curvature on the image side is smaller than an absolute value of a radius of curvature on the object side in the second biconvex lens.

9. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein the positive meniscus lens has an aspheric surface.

10. An information device having an imaging function comprising:

the image forming lens according to claim 8 as an imaging optical system.

11. An imaging apparatus comprising:

the image forming lens according to claim 8 as a shooting optical system.

Priority Claims (3)
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Continuity (3)
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