IP Library Granted Patent US 9,348,121
Granted Patent B2
US 9,348,121 · App. 14/703,551 · Granted May 24, 2016

Magnification optical system

Inventors: Hibiki Tatsuno (Kawasaki, JP); Kiichiro Nishina (Yokohama, JP); Yasuyuki Shibayama (Ebina, JP); Takanobu Osaka (Yokohama, JP); Makoto Hirakawa (Hiratsuka, JP)
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
G02B13/16G02B7/04G02B17/08G03B21/147
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Patent No.
US 9,348,121
App. No.
14/703,551
Granted
May 24, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A magnification optical system forms an enlarged image of an object. It includes a refractive optical system including a plurality of lens groups; and a mirror train including a curved mirror, arranged in this order from an object side, a first focus structure configured to move the respective lens groups of the refractive optical system by different amounts along a normal line of a conjugate surface on the object side, and a second focus structure configured to move the respective lens groups along the normal line of the conjugate surface on the object side by different amounts from those of the first focus structure.

Claims (18)

1. A magnification optical system to form an enlarged image of an object, comprising:

a refractive optical system including a plurality of lens groups; and

a curved mirror to reflect light which passes through the lens groups;

a first focus structure to move at least one of the lens groups of the refractive optical system along a normal line of a conjugate surface on an object side while maintaining a distance between a conjugate-side lens surface of the refractive optical system closest to the object and conjugate surface on the object side; and

a second focus structure to change the distance between a conjugate-side lens surface of the refractive optical system closest to the object and the conjugate surface on the object side, wherein

the second focus structure is fixed after adjustment of focus of the second focus structure.

2. The magnification optical system according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a case which retains the magnification optical system,

wherein the second focus structure is disposed within an interior of the case, and is not accessible from outside of the case.

3. The magnification optical system according to claim 2 , wherein the first focus structure comprises a lever to move the first focus structure.

4. The magnification optical system according to claim 2 , wherein the second focus structure cannot be change from outside of the case.

5. The magnification optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the first focus structure comprises a lever to move the first focus structure.

6. The magnification optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the first focus structure and the second focus structure are independent of each other.

7. The magnification optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the second focus structure comprises a screw mechanism.

8. The magnification optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the second focus structure comprises a lens barrel including a screw mechanism.

9. The magnification optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the second focus structure comprises a protrusion mechanism.

10. The magnification optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the second focus structure is fixed during operation of the first focus structure.

11. The magnification optical system according to claim 1 , further comprising a mirror train which includes the curved mirror and at least one other mirror.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 14534863 · Nov 6, 2014
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