Granted Patent B2

US 12,566,321 · App. 17/919,799 · Granted Mar 3, 2026

Inventors: Ju Yong Shim (Seoul, KR); Tae Kyung Kim (Seoul, KR)

Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.

G02B15/144G02B13/0045

Abstract

Claims (89)

1 . A zoom optical system comprising a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, and a fourth lens group which are sequentially arranged in a direction from a subject side to an image side,

wherein the second lens group and the third lens group are movable,

wherein an effective focal length (EFL) in a telephoto mode is defined by an expression below,

11.5

<

EFL

tele

H

image

⁢

D

<

12.5

,

here, EFL tele is the EFL of the zoom optical system in the telephoto mode, and H imageD is a half value of a diagonal length of a pixel area of an image sensor, and the pixel area of the image sensor is an area in which light-receiving pixels are arrayed in the image sensor which is located at an image plane behind the fourth lens group, and

wherein a maximum diameter of a plurality of lenses included in the first lens group and the fourth lens group and a maximum diameter included in a plurality of lenses included in the second lens group and the third lens group are defined by an expression below,

1.1

<

APER

fix

APER

mov

<

1.45

,

here, APER fix is the maximum diameter of the lens included in the first lens group and the fourth lens group which are fixed groups, and APER mov is the maximum diameter of the lens included in the second lens group and the third lens group which are moving groups.

2 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein:

the first lens group includes three or more lenses;

the second lens group includes two or more lenses;

the third lens group includes two or more lenses;

the fourth lens group includes one lenses; and

the number of lenses of each of the second lens group and the third lens group is less than the number of lenses of the first lens group.

3 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein an EFL in a wide angle mode is defined by an expression below,

3.6

<

EFL

wide

H

image

⁢

D

<

4.2

,

here, EFL wide is the EFL of the zoom optical system in the wide angle mode, and H imageD is the half value of the diagonal length of the pixel area of the image sensor, and the pixel area of the image sensor is an area in which light-receiving pixels are arrayed in the image sensor which is located at an image plane behind the fourth lens group.

4 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein, when zooming is performed from a wide angle mode to the telephoto mode, a movement stroke of the second lens group is defined by an expression below,

2.9

<

TTL

STROKE

2

<

5.

,

here, TTL (total track length) is a distance from a surface of the image sensor to a first surface of the zoom optical system, wherein the first surface is a surface closest to the subject side in the first lens group, and STROKE 2 a distance which the second lens group is moved when zooming from the wide angle mode to the telephoto mode.

5 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein, when zooming is performed from a wide angle mode to the telephoto mode, a movement stroke of the third lens group is defined by an expression below,

2.9

<

TTL

STROKE

3

<

5.

,

here, TTL is a distance from a surface of the image sensor to a first surface of the zoom optical system, wherein the first surface is a surface closest to the subject side in the first lens group, and STROKE 3 a distance which the third lens group is moved when zooming from the wide angle mode to the telephoto mode.

6 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein:

the first lens group includes a plurality of lenses;

among the plurality of lenses included in the first lens group, the lens disposed at the image side has positive refractive power; and

among the plurality of lenses included in the first lens group, the lens disposed at the subject side has negative refractive power.

7 . The zoom optical system of claim 5 , wherein:

the second lens group includes at least two lenses; and

the at least two lenses included in the second lens group have abbe numbers defined by an expression below,

|ABBE 4 −ABBE 5 |>10,

here, ABBE 4 is an abbe number of the lens disposed at the subject side of the two lenses included in the second lens group, and ABBE 5 is an abbe number of the lens disposed at the image side of the two lenses included in the second lens group.

8 . The zoom optical system of claim 6 , wherein the second lens group includes at least one of:

a glass lens; and

a plastic lens.

9 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein a chief ray angle (CRA) is greater than −5° and smaller than 5°.

10 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein the second lens group and the third lens group have different moving speeds.

11 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein a filter and the image sensor are sequentially disposed at a rear end of the fourth lens group.

12 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein the first lens group includes first and second lenses, the second lens group includes third and fourth lenses, the third lens group includes fifth and sixth lenses, and the fourth lens group includes seventh and eighth lenses.

13 . The zoom optical system of claim 12 , wherein the first, third, seventh and eighth lenses have positive refractive power, and wherein the second, fourth, fifth and sixth lenses have negative refractive power.

14 . The zoom optical system of claim 7 , wherein at least one of the lenses included in the first lens group to the fourth lens group has the upper portions and the lower portions have partially cut ribs and effective diameters or have only cut ribs without cutting the effective diameters.

15 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein the second lens group and the third lens group include lenses in which value obtained by dividing a long axis length of the effective diameter by a short axis length of the effective diameter is 1.

16 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the lenses included in the first lens group to the fourth lens group is a D-cut lens.

17 . The zoom optical system of claim 8 , wherein the first lens group and the second lens group,

include at least one glass lens, and at least one of a lens disposed on the image side among the two lenses included in the first lens group or a lens disposed on the object side among the two lenses included in the second lens group is a glass lens.

18 . The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein an aperture of each of the second lens group and the third lens group is smaller than an aperture of each of the first lens group and the fourth lens group.

19 . The zoom optical system of claim 12 , wherein the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens, ribs of upper portions and lower portions are cut, and effective diameters aren't cut.

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