IP Library Granted Patent US 12,216,335
Granted Patent B2
US 12,216,335 · App. 17/391,713 · Granted Feb 4, 2025

Imaging lens

Inventor: Koji Nitta (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS Co., Ltd.
G02B9/64G02B13/18G02B3/02G02B3/04G02B5/005G02B13/0045
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Patent No.
US 12,216,335
App. No.
17/391,713
Granted
Feb 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of wide field of view, low profile and low F-number. An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive or negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a second lens with positive or negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a third lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a fourth lens with negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a fifth lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a sixth lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power.

Claims (31)

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

a first lens with positive or negative refractive power in a paraxial region,

a second lens with positive or negative refractive power in a paraxial region,

a third lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region,

a fourth lens with negative refractive power in a paraxial region,

a fifth lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region,

a sixth lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, and

a seventh lens with negative refractive power,

wherein an image-side surface of said first lens is convex in the paraxial region, an object-side surface of said second lens is convex in the paraxial region, and an image-side surface of said sixth lens is concave in the paraxial region, and

wherein the following conditional expressions (4) and (5) are satisfied:

0.10<vd6/vd7<0.60   (4)

0.20<( D 1 /|f 1|)×100<7.50   (5)

where

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

vd7: an abbe number at d-ray of the seventh lens,

D1: a thickness of the first lens along the optical axis, and

f1: a focal length of the first lens.

2. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein an object-side surface of said first lens is concave in the paraxial region.

3. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein an object-side surface of said fourth lens is concave in the paraxial region.

4. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein an image-side surface of said fourth lens is convex in the paraxial region.

5. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein an object-side surface of said sixth lens is convex in the paraxial region.

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

0.10<( T 1/TTL)×100<0.45   (1)

where

T1: a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the first lens to an object-side surface of the second lens, and

TTL: a total track length.

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

10.00< T 2/ T 4   (2)

where

T2: a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the second lens to an object-side surface of the third lens, and

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

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 15, 2021
From: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
To: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 058518/0141 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Aug 5, 2021
From: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057089/0821 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 4, 2021
From: NITTA, KOJI
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057081/0489 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-041117 · Mar 7, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16811939 · Mar 6, 2020
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