IP Library Granted Patent US 12,078,785
Granted Patent B2
US 12,078,785 · App. 17/391,829 · Granted Sep 3, 2024

Imaging lens

Inventors: Koji Nitta (Tokyo, JP); Masaya Hashimoto (Fukushima, JP)
Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS Co., Ltd.
G02B13/0045G02B9/62G02B9/60G02B13/18
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Patent No.
US 12,078,785
App. No.
17/391,829
Granted
Sep 3, 2024
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 negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, a second lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a third lens with the negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a fourth lens with the positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a fifth lens having a flat object-side surface and a flat image-side surface that are aspheric, and a sixth lens with the negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region.

Claims (39)

1. An imaging lens comprising, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, a second lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a third lens with negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a fourth lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a fifth lens having a flat object-side surface and a flat image-side surface that are aspheric, and a sixth lens with negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region,

wherein following conditional expressions (4), (7a), (9′) and (15) are satisfied:

−2.45< r 2/ r 4<−0.45  (4)

19< vd 6<31.00  (7a)

0.90< D 2/ D 3≤2.50  (9′)

30.00< r 2/ T 2  (15)

where

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

D2: a thickness along the optical axis of the second lens,

D3: a thickness along the optical axis of the third lens,

r2: a paraxial curvature radius of an image-side surface of the first lens,

r4: a paraxial curvature radius of an image-side surface of the second lens, and

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

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

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

−9.55<( T 1/ f 1)×100<−1.00  (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

f1: a focal length of the first lens.

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

0.02< T 2/ T 3<0.60  (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

T3: a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the third lens to an object-side surface of the fourth lens.

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

−15.50< f 6/ D 6<−1.50  (3)

where

f6: a focal length of the sixth lens, and

D6: a thickness along the optical axis of the sixth lens.

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

0.65< r 1/ f< 4.00  (5)

where

r1: a paraxial curvature radius of an object-side surface of the first lens, and

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

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

0.80< r 12/ D 6<3.00  (6)

where

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

D6: a thickness along the optical axis of the sixth lens.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 9, 2024
From: NITTA, KOJI; HASHIMOTO, MASAYA
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD .
Reel/Frame 067045/0544 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 15, 2021
From: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
To: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 058518/0141 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-108019 · Jun 10, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16895623 · Jun 8, 2020
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