IP Library Granted Patent US 12,270,971
Granted Patent B2
US 12,270,971 · App. 17/220,610 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Imaging lens

Inventor: Masaya Hashimoto (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS Co., Ltd.
G02B13/0045G02B9/64G02B27/0025
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Patent No.
US 12,270,971
App. No.
17/220,610
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with positive refractive power, a third lens with negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens with positive refractive power, a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, wherein said first lens is formed in a meniscus shape having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, said second lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, said sixth lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and said seventh lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.

Claims (38)

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

a first lens with positive refractive power,

a second lens with positive refractive power,

a third lens with negative refractive power,

a fourth lens,

a fifth lens with positive refractive power,

a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power, and

a seventh lens with negative refractive power,

wherein said imaging lens is configured with only seven lenses, said first lens is formed in a meniscus shape having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, said second lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, said sixth lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and said seventh lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied:

3.85<| r 13/ r 14|  (1)

where

r13: a paraxial curvature radius of an object-side surface of the seventh lens, and

r14: a paraxial curvature radius of the image-side surface of the seventh lens.

2. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein an object-side surface of said third lens is convex in a paraxial region.

3. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the following conditional expression (2) is satisfied:

13.00< vd 6<34.00  (2)

where

vd6: an abbe number at d-ray of the sixth lens.

4. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the following conditional expression (3) is satisfied:

−3.50< f 2/ f 7<−0.50  (3)

where

f2: a focal length of the second lens, and

f7: a focal length of the seventh lens.

5. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the following conditional expression (4) is satisfied:

0.00< f 1/| f 6|<0.30  (4)

where

f1: a focal length of the first lens, and

f6: a focal length of the sixth lens.

6. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the following conditional expression (5) is satisfied:

0.02< r 12/| r 13|<0.35  (5)

where

r12: a paraxial curvature radius of an image-side surface of the sixth lens, and

r13: a paraxial curvature radius of an object-side surface of the seventh lens.

7. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the following conditional expression (6) is satisfied:

0.15< D 4/ T 4<1.05  (6)

where

D4: a thickness along an optical axis of the fourth lens, and

T4: a distance along an optical axis from an image-side surface of the fourth lens to an object-side surface of the fifth lens.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 28, 2021
From: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
To: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057953/0717 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 27, 2021
From: HASHIMOTO, MASAYA
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057932/0465 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-067228 · Apr 3, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220066172A1 · Mar 3, 2022
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