IP Library Granted Patent US 12,153,197
Granted Patent B2
US 12,153,197 · App. 17/391,840 · Granted Nov 26, 2024

Imaging lens comprising seven lenses of −+−−++−, −+−+++−, ++−−++−, ++−−+−− OR ++−−++− refractive powers

Inventor: Hisao Fukaya (Sukagawa, JP)
Assignee: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS Co., Ltd.
G02B13/0045G02B9/64
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Patent No.
US 12,153,197
App. No.
17/391,840
Granted
Nov 26, 2024
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, an aperture stop, a second lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a third lens with negative refractive power in the paraxial region, a fourth lens, a fifth lens with the positive refractive power in the paraxial region, a sixth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in the paraxial region and an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis.

Claims (30)

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

a first lens,

an aperture stop,

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

a third lens with negative refractive power in the paraxial region,

a fourth lens,

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

a sixth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and

a seventh lens with negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in the paraxial region and an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis,

wherein the first lens has the positive refractive power,

the second lens is formed in a biconvex shape having convex object-side and image-side surfaces in the paraxial region,

the fifth lens has a concave object-side surface in the paraxial region,

the sixth lens has a convex object-side surface in the paraxial region,

the seventh lens has a convex object-side surface, and

the following conditional expressions (1) and (7) are satisfied:

40< vd 7<70  (1)

0.50<( T 1/TTL)×100<1.20  (7)

where

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

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.

2. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens is formed in a meniscus shape having a convex object-side surface in the paraxial region.

3. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the third lens has a convex object-side surface in the paraxial region.

4. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the object-side surface of the sixth lens has at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis.

5. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the object-side surface of the seventh lens is formed as an aspheric surface having at least one pole point in a position off the optical axis.

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

TTL/ ih< 2.0  (2)

where

TTL: a total track length, and

Ih: a maximum image height.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 15, 2021
From: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
To: TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 058518/0141 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEE'S ADDRESS INSIDE THE ASSIGNMENT DOCUMENT AND ON THE COVER SHEET PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 057077 FRAME: 0857. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Dec 14, 2021
From: FUKAYA, HISAO
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 058548/0312 →
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: FUKAYA, HISAO
To: KANTATSU CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057077/0857 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-195773 · Oct 17, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16654754 · Oct 16, 2019
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