IP Library Granted Patent US 12,313,837
Granted Patent B2
US 12,313,837 · App. 17/718,937 · Granted May 27, 2025

Observation telescope

Inventors: Albert Fiedler (Innsbruck, AT); Martin Kuhn (Rieden, AT)
Assignee: Swarovski-Optik AG & Co KG.
G02B23/02G02B9/12G02B15/143101G02B25/001G02B27/646
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Patent No.
US 12,313,837
App. No.
17/718,937
Granted
May 27, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a telescope optics for a telescopic observational instrument having an objective lens, having a prism erecting system and having an eyepiece lens, wherein an image of an object generated by the objective lens is located between the prism erecting system and the eyepiece lens, and wherein the objective lens, in an order starting from the object side, comprises a first lens group G 1 with a positive refractive power, a second lens group G 2 with a negative refractive power and a third lens group G 3 , and wherein the second lens group G 2 is adjustable in parallel to an optical axis for focusing, and wherein at least one lens with a negative refractive power of the third lens group G 3 is adjustable perpendicularly to the optical axis for changing the position of the image, and wherein the third lens group G 3 has a negative refractive power.

Claims (16)

1. A telescope optics for a telescopic observational instrument having an objective lens system, having a prism erecting system and having an eyepiece lens system, wherein an image of an object generated by the objective lens system is located between the prism erecting system and the eyepiece lens system, and wherein the objective lens system, in an order starting from an object side, comprises a first lens group G 1 with a positive refractive power, a second lens group G 2 with a negative refractive power and a third lens group G 3 with at least one lens having a negative refractive power, and wherein the second lens group G 2 is adjustable in parallel to an optical axis for focusing, and wherein at least one lens with a negative refractive power of the third lens group G 3 is adjustable perpendicularly to the optical axis for changing the position of the image, wherein the third lens group G 3 has a negative refractive power, wherein the value of a ratio of a specific lateral displacement of the at least one lens with a negative refractive power of the third lens group G 3 for image stabilization to a focal length of the third lens group G 3 is in a range of between −52×10 −3 /° and −25×10 −3 /°, wherein the specific lateral displacement of the at least one lens with a negative refractive power of the third lens group G 3 for image stabilization is defined by the lateral displacement of the at least one lens with a negative refractive power of the third lens group G 3 required to achieve an image stabilization in case of a tilt of the optical axis about an angle of one degree.

2. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a focal length of the first lens group G 1 to a focal length of the second lens group G 2 has a value in a range of between −0.30 and −0.16 (−0.30<f′(G 1 )/f′(G 2 )<−0.16).

3. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of a focal length of the third lens group G 3 to the focal length of the lens system formed of the first lens group G 1 and the second lens group G 2 has a value in a range between −1.17 and −0.60 (−1.17<f′ (G 3 )/f′(G 1 ,G 2 )<−0.60).

4. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens group G 1 of the objective lens system, in an order starting from the object side, comprises a first lens L 11 with a positive refractive power, a second lens L 12 with a positive refractive power and a third Lens L 13 with a negative refractive power.

5. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens group G 1 of the objective lens system, in an order starting from the object side, comprises a biconvex lens L 11 , a biconvex lens L 12 and a biconcave lens L 13 .

6. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein the lenses L 12 and L 13 of the first lens group G 1 of the objective lens system form a cemented component.

7. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein the second lens group G 2 of the objective lens system comprises a convex surface in the direction of the objective and a concave surface in the direction of the eyepiece.

8. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein the second lens group G 2 of the objective lens system, in an order starting from the object side, comprises a cemented component with a biconvex lens L 21 and with biconcave lens L 22 .

9. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein the second lens group G 2 of the objective lens system, in an order starting from the object side, comprises a cemented component with a convexo-concave lens L 21 and with a convexo-concave lens L 22 .

10. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one lens with a negative refractive power of the third lens group G 3 of the objective lens system, in an order starting from the object side, is formed as a cemented component with a concavo-convex lens L 31 and a biconcave lens L 32 .

11. The telescope optics according to claim 10 , wherein the third lens group G 3 of the objective lens system, in an order starting from the object side, comprises a lens L 33 with a positive refractive power, preferably formed as a biconvex lens, and the cemented component with a negative refractive power.

12. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein a field lens is formed as a fourth lens group G 4 , wherein the fourth lens group G 4 , in an order starting from the object side, comprises a concavo-convex lens L 41 and a cemented component of a concavo-convex lens L 42 and a biconcave lens L 43 .

13. The telescope optics according to claim 1 , wherein the eyepiece lens system comprises a fifth lens group G 5 , wherein the fifth lens group G 5 , in an order starting from the object side, comprises a concavo-convex lens L 51 , a cemented component of a biconvex lens L 52 and concavo-convex lens L 53 , a biconvex lens L 54 and a convexo-concave lens L 55 .

14. The telescope optics according to claim 9 , wherein the lens group G 4 and the lenses L 51 , L 52 , L 53 and L 54 of a fifth lens group G 5 are formed to be displaceable in an axial direction according to the optical axis.

15. The telescope optics according to claim 12 , wherein the lens group G 4 and the lenses L 51 , L 52 , L 53 and L 54 of a fifth lens group G 5 are formed to be displaceable in an axial direction according to the optical axis.

16. The telescope optics according to claim 13 , wherein the lens group G 4 and the lenses L 51 , L 52 , L 53 and L 54 of the fifth lens group G 5 are formed to be displaceable in an axial direction according to the optical axis.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 7, 2022
From: SWAROVSKI-OPTIK KG.
To: SWAROVSKI-OPTIK AG & CO KG.
Reel/Frame 062079/0463 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 13, 2022
From: FIEDLER, ALBERT; KUHN, MARTIN
To: SWAROVSKI-OPTIK KG.
Reel/Frame 059586/0510 →
Priority Claims (2)
AT A 50479/2019 · May 24, 2019 · national
AT A 51094/2019 · Dec 13, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15930686 · May 13, 2020
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