IP Library Granted Patent US 10,935,767
Granted Patent B2
US 10,935,767 · App. 16/165,182 · Granted Mar 2, 2021

Imaging lens

Inventors: Yoji Kubota (Nagano, JP); Kenichi Kubota (Tochigi, JP); Hitoshi Hirano (Tochigi, JP); Hisao Fukaya (Tochigi, JP)
Assignee: Kantatsu Co., Ltd.
G02B13/0045G02B9/62
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Patent No.
US 10,935,767
App. No.
16/165,182
Granted
Mar 2, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging lens includes a first lens having negative refractive power; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens having negative refractive power; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The fourth lens is disposed to face the fifth lens. The fourth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side is concave at a peripheral portion thereof. The fifth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the object side is concave at a peripheral portion thereof.

Claims (41)

1. An imaging lens comprising:

a first lens having negative refractive power;

a second lens having positive refractive power;

a third lens having positive refractive power;

a fourth lens having negative refractive power;

a fifth lens; and

a sixth lens having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side,

wherein said fifth lens has at least one surface formed in an aspheric shape, and

said second lens has a focal length f2, said third lens has a focal length f3, said fifth lens and said sixth lens have a composite focal length F2, and said fourth lens is disposed away from the fifth lens by a distance D45 on an optical axis thereof so that the following conditional expressions are satisfied:

0.5< f 2/ f 3<3,

F 2<0,

0.15< D 45/ f< 0.4,

where f is a focal length of a whole lens system.

2. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein said fourth lens has a focal length f4 so that the following conditional expression is satisfied:

−4 <f 4/f<−0.4.

3. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein said sixth lens has a focal length f6 so that the following conditional expression is satisfied:

−5 <f 6/f<−0.5.

4. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein said second lens and said third lens have a composite focal length f23 so that the following conditional expression is satisfied:

0.2 <f 23/f<0.8.

5. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein said fifth lens is disposed away from the sixth lens by a distance D56 on an optical axis thereof so that the following conditional expression is satisfied:

0.03 <D 56/f<0.3.

6. An imaging lens comprising:

a first lens having negative refractive power;

a second lens having positive refractive power;

a third lens having positive refractive power;

a fourth lens having negative refractive power;

a fifth lens; and

a sixth lens having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side,

wherein said fifth lens has at least one surface formed in an aspheric shape, and

said second lens has a focal length f2, said third lens has a focal length f3, said fifth lens and said sixth lens have a composite focal length F2, said sixth lens has an Abbe's number ν6, and said fifth lens is disposed away from the sixth lens by a distance D56 on an optical axis thereof so that the following conditional expressions are satisfied:

0.5 <f 2 /f 3<3,

F 2<0,

10<ν6<40,

0.03 <D 56 /f< 0.3,

where f is a focal length of a whole lens system.

7. The imaging lens according to claim 6 , wherein said fourth lens has a focal length f4 so that the following conditional expression is satisfied:

−4 <f 4 /f<− 0.4.

8. The imaging lens according to claim 6 , wherein said sixth lens has a focal length f6 so that the following conditional expression is satisfied:

−5 <f 6 /f<− 0.5.

9. The imaging lens according to claim 6 , wherein said second lens and said third lens have a composite focal length f23 so that the following conditional expression is satisfied:

0.2 <f 23 /f< 0.8.

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 Oct 19, 2018
From: KUBOTA, YOJI; KUBOTA, KENICHI; HIRANO, HITOSHI; FUKAYA, HISAO
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 047234/0526 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-237736 · Dec 12, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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