IP Library Granted Patent US 11,467,378
Granted Patent B2
US 11,467,378 · App. 16/741,413 · Granted Oct 11, 2022

Imaging lens

Inventors: Hisao Fukaya (Sukagawa, JP); Kenichi Kamada (Sukagawa, JP); Shingo Yuza (Sukagawa, JP)
Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
G02B13/0045G02B9/62
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Patent No.
US 11,467,378
App. No.
16/741,413
Granted
Oct 11, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided an imaging lens with high-resolution which realizes the low-profileness, wide field of view and low F-value well balance. An imaging lens comprising in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, a fourth lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface facing the object side near an optical axis, a fifth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and a sixth lens having the concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of said sixth lens is an aspheric surface which changes to the convex surface at a peripheral portion, and a total track length is 6.0 mm or less and below conditional expressions (2) and (3) are satisfied: 20<νd3<32  (2) 20<νd5<32  (3) where νd3: abbe number at d-ray of the third lens νd5: abbe number at d-ray of the fifth lens.

Claims (79)

1. An imaging lens comprising in order from an object side to an image side:

a first lens having positive refractive power with a convex surface facing the object side proximate to an optical axis;

a second lens having negative refractive power;

a third lens, which is a double-sided aspheric lens;

a fourth lens having a meniscus shape with a concave surface facing the object side proximate to the optical axis;

a fifth lens, which is a double-sided aspheric lens; and

a sixth lens, which is a double-sided aspheric lens, the sixth lens having negative refractive power with a concave surface facing the image side proximate to the optical axis, and

further comprising an aperture stop, wherein a total track length is 6.0 mm or less and below conditional expressions (1′), (4), (5), and (12) are satisfied:

0.33 ≤D 56 /D 23<0.8  (1′)

0.9 <νd 1/( νd 2 +νd 3)<1.4  (4)

1.8 <νd 4 /νd 5<2.8  (5)

0.1 <D 34 /D 23<1.5  (12)

where:

D23: distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the second lens to an object-side surface of the third lens,

D34: distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the third lens to the concave surface of the fourth lens,

D56: distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the fifth lens to an object-side surface of the sixth lens,

νd1: abbe number at d-ray of the first lens,

νd2: abbe number at d-ray of the second lens,

νd3: abbe number at d-ray of the third lens,

νd4: abbe number at d-ray of the fourth lens, and

νd5: abbe number at d-ray of the fifth lens.

2. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a below conditional expression (2) is satisfied:

20< νvd 3<32  (2)

where

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

3. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a below conditional expression (6) is satisfied:

0.1 <D 6 /ΣD <0.35  (6)

where

D6: thickness on the optical axis of the sixth lens, and

ΣD: a total sum of thickness on the optical axis of each of the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens.

4. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a below conditional expression (7) is satisfied:

0.6<Σ L1F−L6R/ f <1.2  (7)

where

Σ L1F−L6R : distance along the optical axis from the convex surface of the first lens to the concave surface of the sixth lens, and

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

5. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the third lens is a meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the object side proximate to the optical axis.

6. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a below conditional expression (8) is satisfied:

0.8 <|r 3 |/f <15.0  (8)

where

r3: curvature radius proximate to the optical axis of the object-side surface of the second lens, and

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

7. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the fifth lens has no substantial refractive power proximate to the optical axis.

8. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a below conditional expression (9) is satisfied:

0.4 <r 4 /f <2.8  (9)

where

r4: curvature radius proximate to the optical axis of the image-side surface of the second lens, and

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

9. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein below conditional expressions (10) and (11) are satisfied:

0.4 <|r 11 |/f <2.5  (10)

0.1 <r 12 /f <0.5  (11)

where

r11: curvature radius proximate to the optical axis of the object-side surface of the sixth lens,

r12: curvature radius proximate to the optical axis of the concave surface of the sixth lens, and

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

10. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein below conditional expressions (13) and (14) are satisfied:

0.5< f 1/ f< 1.5  (13)

0.5< f 4/ f< 4.0  (14)

where

f1: focal length of the first lens,

f4: focal length of the fourth lens, and

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

11. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein below conditional expressions (15), (16) and (17) are satisfied:

−0.4< f 2/ f<− 1.0  (15)

−2.0< f 6/ f<− 0.5  (16)

| f 2|> |f 6|  (17)

where

f2: focal length of the second lens,

f6: focal length of the sixth lens, and

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

12. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a below conditional expression (18) is satisfied:

2.0<| f 3|/ f   (18)

where

f3: focal length of the third lens, and

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

13. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a below conditional expression (19) is satisfied:

1.5<Σ L1F−L6R /EPD< 2.15  (19)

where

Σ L1F−L6R : distance along the optical axis from the convex surface of the first lens to the concave surface of the sixth lens, and

EPD: diameter of the aperture stop.

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: FUKAYA, HISAO; KAMADA, KENICHI; YUZA, SHINGO
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057046/0467 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2016-205573 · Oct 19, 2016 · national
JP JP2017-066393 · Mar 29, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15788648 · Oct 19, 2017
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