IP Library Granted Patent US 9,632,292
Granted Patent B2
US 9,632,292 · App. 15/139,646 · Granted Apr 25, 2017

Imaging lens and imaging device

Inventors: Masaki Yamazaki (Osaka, JP); Takashi Sugiyama (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
G02B13/18G02B5/208G02B9/34G02B13/04G02B13/146G02B27/0025H04N5/33
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Patent No.
US 9,632,292
App. No.
15/139,646
Granted
Apr 25, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging lens is provided with: a first lens with negative power; a second lens with negative power; a third lens with positive power; and a fourth lens with positive power. The cemented fourth lens is formed from an object side lens with negative power and an image side lens with positive power. The thickness of a resin adhesive layer that bonds the object side lens and the image side lens is 20 μm or greater on the optical axis, and when Sg1H is the amount of sag in the image side lens surface of the object side lens and Sg2H is the amount of sag in the object side lens surface of the image side lens. The bonding operation is easy without damage occurring to the cemented surfaces, with a design that takes into account thickness of the resin adhesive layer; therefore various forms of aberration can be corrected.

Claims (15)

1. A cemented lens comprising: a negative lens having negative power; and a positive lens having positive power, the negative lens and the positive lens being bonded together with an adhesive layer, wherein

both surfaces of the negative lens are aspheric in shape, both surfaces of the positive lens are aspheric in shape, one of a cemented surface of the negative lens on a side of the positive lens and a cemented surface of the positive lens on a side of the negative lens is a concave surface and another is a convex surface,

the concave surface and the convex surface have different aspheric shapes, and

following conditional expression (a) is satisfied:

Sg 1 H<Sg 2 H   (a),

where Sg1H represents sag in the concave surface at height H in an effective diameter of the concave surface in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis, and Sg2H represents sag in the convex surface at the height H.

2. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein the negative lens is positioned on an object side of the positive lens.

3. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein following conditional expression (b) is satisfied:

20 μm≦ D   (b),

where D represents a thickness of the adhesive layer along the optical axis.

4. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein the bonded surface of the negative lens is a concave surface and the bonded surface of the positive lens is a convex surface.

5. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein the negative lens has a concave surface and a convex surface, and the positive lens has a convex surface and a convex surface.

6. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein the negative lens has an Abbe number of 31 or less, and the positive lens has an Abbe number of 40 or greater.

7. An imaging lens comprising the cemented lens according to claim 1 .

8. An imaging device comprising an image pick-up device having a sensor surface disposed on an image-forming surface (focal point position) of the imaging lens according to claim 7 .

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 3, 2021
From: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058666/0407 →
MERGER Recorded Nov 29, 2021
From: MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058255/0579 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 25, 2018
From: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045142/0208 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-076319 · Mar 29, 2012 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 14375968
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