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US 7,764,445 · App. 12/076,011 · Granted Jul 27, 2010

Optical system

Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,764,445
App. No.
12/076,011
Granted
Jul 27, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical system is mounted in a mobile communication terminal and a personal digital assistant (PDA) for a monitoring camera and a digital camera. The optical system includes: a first optical element formed in a meniscus shape entirely convex toward an object and having a positive refractive power; and a second optical element having an object-side surface convex toward the object and an image-side surface formed of a plane, wherein the second optical element includes: a fourth optical element having an object-side surface entirety convex toward the object on the optical axis; and a fifth optical element having an object-side surface in contact with an image-side surface of the fourth optical element, and an image-side surface and an object-side surface formed of planes respectively.

Claims (23)

1. An optical system comprising:

a first lens formed in a meniscus shape entirely convex toward an object, having a positive refractive power, and having object and image side surfaces in contact with air; and

a second lens having an object-side surface convex toward the object and an image-side surface formed of a plane, wherein the second lens comprises

a first optical element having an object-side surface entirety convex toward the object, and

a second optical element having an object-side surface in contact with an image-side surface of the second optical element, and an image-side surface in contact with air, said image-side surface and said object-side surface formed entirely of planes respectively.

2. The optical system of claim 1 , wherein the first lens comprises:

a first optical element having an object-side surface convex toward the object on an optical axis;

a second optical element having an object-side surface in contact with an image-side surface of the first optical element of the first lens; and

a third optical element having an object-side surface in contact with an image-side surface of the second optical element of the first lens and an image-side surface concave toward an image on the optical axis.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the second optical element of the first lens are formed of planes, respectively.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the first lens comprises one or more refractive surface formed of aspherical surface.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein a refractive index of one or more of the first optical element of the first lens to the third optical element of the first lens is different from a refractive index of other optical elements, and

a refractive index of the first optical element of the second lens is different from that of the second optical element of the second lens.

6. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the second lens has a positive refractive power.

7. The system according to claim 1 , wherein a curvature radius r4 of a refractive surface closest to the image in the first lens and a curvature radius r5 closest to the object in the second lens satisfy following Conditional Expression 1,

0.8< r 4 /r 5<1.2  Conditional Expression 1,

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein a distance D12 on the optical axis from the refractive surface closest to the image in the first lens to the refractive surface closest to the object in the second lens satisfy following Conditional Expression 2,

0.05< D 12 /TL< 0.1  Conditional Expression 2

wherein TL indicates a distance from the refractive surface closest to the object to an imaging plane.

9. The system of claim 7 , wherein a curvature radius r1 of a refractive surface closest to the object in the first lens satisfy following Conditional Expression 3,

0.5< r 1 /f <0.7  Conditional Expression 3

wherein f indicates an overall focal length of the optical system.

10. The system of claim 2 , wherein a shielding layer blocking unnecessary light is installed on one or more of refractive surfaces included in the second optical element of the first lens and second optical element of the second lens.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 12, 2008
From: OH, HYE RAN; CHANG, IN CHEOL; LEE, SEOK CHEON; JIN, YOUNG SU; LEE, CHEONG HEE
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 020687/0658 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2007-0097579 · Sep 27, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20090086339A1 · Apr 2, 2009