IP Library Granted Patent US 9,658,435
Granted Patent B2
US 9,658,435 · App. 15/154,112 · Granted May 23, 2017

Imaging lens

Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto (Sukagawa, JP)
Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
G02B13/0045G02B9/62G02B27/0025
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Patent No.
US 9,658,435
App. No.
15/154,112
Granted
May 23, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A compact low-profile low-cost imaging lens which provides brightness with an F-value of 2.5 or less and a wide field of view and corrects aberrations properly. The elements are arranged from an object side as follows: a positive first lens having a convex object-side surface; a meniscus negative second lens having a concave object-side surface; a double-sided aspheric third lens; a double-sided aspheric fourth lens; a positive fifth lens having a convex image-side surface near an optical axis; and a double-sided aspheric negative sixth lens having a concave image-side surface near the axis. Each element is arranged with an air gap from a neighboring element. The sixth lens image-side surface has an off-axial pole-change point. The imaging lens satisfies conditional expressions below: 20<ν d 1 −νd 2<50  (1) 20<ν d 1−ν d 3<50  (2) where νd1: First lens Abbe number at d-ray νd2: Second lens Abbe number at d-ray νd3: Third lens Abbe number at d-ray.

Claims (54)

1. An imaging lens which forms an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor, in which elements are arranged in order from an object side to an image side, comprising:

a first lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface on the object side;

a second lens having negative refractive power and a concave surface on the object side;

a third lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave surface near the optical axis on the object side;

a fourth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having positive refractive power;

a fifth lens having positive refractive power and a convex surface near an optical axis on the image side; and

a sixth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave surface near the optical axis on the image side,

wherein the elements are each arranged with an air gap from a neighboring element;

the image-side surface of the sixth lens has a pole-change point off the optical axis; and

a conditional expression (4) below is satisfied:

0.4 <f 1 /|f 3|<1.0  (4)

where

f1: focal length of the first lens

f3: focal length of the third lens.

2. The imaging lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein conditional expressions (1) and (2) below are satisfied:

20<ν d 1−ν d 2<50  (1)

20<ν d 1−ν d 3<50  (2)

where

νd1: Abbe number of the first lens at d-ray

νd2: Abbe number of the second lens at d-ray

νd3: Abbe number of the third lens at d-ray.

3. The imaging lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein a conditional expression (3) below is satisfied:

4< f 2 /f 3<32  (3)

where

f2: focal length of the second lens

f3: focal length of the third lens.

4. The imaging lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein a conditional expression (5) below is satisfied:

0.1 <|r 1/ r 2|<0.5  (5)

where

r1: curvature radius of the object-side surface of the first lens

r2: curvature radius of the image-side surface of the first lens.

5. The imaging lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein the second lens has an aspheric shape in which the negative refractive power becomes weaker with increasing distance from the optical axis and changes to positive refractive power in a peripheral portion.

6. The imaging lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein the image-side surface of the third lens has an aspheric shape in which negative refractive power becomes stronger with increasing distance from the optical axis.

7. The imaging lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein the fourth lens has a biconvex shape near the optical axis and satisfies a conditional expression (6) below:

0.1<| r 7 /r 8|<1.1  (6)

where

r7: curvature radius of the object-side surface of the fourth lens

r8: curvature radius of the image-side surface of the fourth lens.

8. The imaging lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein conditional expressions (7) and (8) below are satisfied:

0.3< f 5/ f< 0.9  (7)

0.3<| f 6|/ f< 0.9  (8)

where

f: focal length of the overall optical system of the imaging lens

f5: focal length of the fifth lens

f6: focal length of the sixth lens.

9. The imaging lens according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sixth lens has negative refractive power.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 6, 2021
From: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
To: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057109/0379 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Aug 3, 2021
From: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057061/0113 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 1, 2021
From: HASHIMOTO, MASAYA
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057046/0192 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-009976 · Jan 23, 2014 · national
Continuity (2)
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