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Granted Patent B2
US 12,481,129 · App. 18/378,034 · Granted Nov 25, 2025

Imaging optical lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device

Inventors: Yu-Tai Tseng (Taichung, TW); Yu-Chun Ke (Taichung, TW); Kuo-Jui Wang (Taichung, TW); Tzu-Chieh Kuo (Taichung, TW)
Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
G02B13/004G02B9/34
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Patent No.
US 12,481,129
App. No.
18/378,034
Granted
Nov 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging optical lens assembly includes four lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. Each of the four lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. At least one of all lens surfaces of the four lens elements is aspheric and has at least one inflection point.

Claims (19)

1 . An imaging optical lens assembly comprising: four lens elements, the four lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element; each of the four lens elements having an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side;

wherein the second lens element has positive refractive power, the third lens element has positive refractive power, at least one of all lens surfaces of the four lens elements is aspheric and has at least one inflection point, and each of at least three of the four lens elements has an Abbe number smaller than 38.0;

wherein a focal length of the imaging optical lens assembly is f, a focal length of the second lens element is f2, a central thickness of the second lens element is CT2, a central thickness of the third lens element is CT3, a central thickness of the fourth lens element is CT4, an axial distance between the second lens element and the third lens element is T23, and the following conditions are satisfied:

0.24≤ f/f 2≤0.77;

0.94≤CT2/CT4<3.0; and

0.31≤ T 23/CT3≤0.82.

2 . The imaging optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the axial distance between the second lens element and the third lens element is T23, the central thickness of the third lens element is CT3, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.40≤ T 23/CT3≤0.82.

3 . The imaging optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the central thickness of the third lens element is CT3, the central thickness of the fourth lens element is CT4, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.76≤CT4/CT3<1.60.

4 . The imaging optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein a curvature radius of the object-side surface of the second lens element is R3, a curvature radius of the image-side surface of the second lens element is R4, and the following condition is satisfied:

R 3/ R 4<3.0.

5 . The imaging optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the focal length of the imaging optical lens assembly is f, a focal length of the first lens element is f1, a focal length of the third lens element is f3, and the following conditions are satisfied:

−1.0< f/f 1<2.0; and

−1.0< f/f 3<2.0.

6 . The imaging optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein an axial distance between the object-side surface of the first lens element and an image surface is TL, a maximum image height of the imaging optical lens assembly is ImgH, and the following conditions are satisfied:

0.50 mm< TL< 8.0 mm; and

1.0< TL /Img H <3.0.

7 . The imaging optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein at least three of the four lens elements of the imaging optical lens assembly are made of plastic material, and the object-side surface of the fourth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof and has at least one critical point in an off-axis region thereof.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE OMITTED 4TH ASSIGNOR'S DATA PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 065169 FRAME 0305. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Oct 26, 2023
From: TSENG, YU-TAI; KE, YU-CHUN; WANG, KUO-JUI; KUO, TZU-CHIEH
To: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 065379/0947 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 10, 2023
From: TSENG, YU-TAI; KE, YU-CHUN; WANG, KUO-JUI
To: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 065169/0305 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 107124063 · Jul 12, 2018 · national
Continuity (4)
Continuation 18080548 · Dec 13, 2022
Continuation 17103699 · Nov 24, 2020
Continuation 16112666 · Aug 25, 2018
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