IP Library › Granted Patent US 8,681,436
Granted Patent B2
US 8,681,436 · App. 13/323,272 · Granted Mar 25, 2014

Imaging lens, imaging device and information device

Inventor: Takashi Kubota (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,681,436
App. No.
13/323,272
Granted
Mar 25, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging lens includes an optical system having in order from an object side to an image side a first lens group having a positive refractive power and a second lens having a positive refractive power to image an optical image of an object, the first lens group and the second lens group being displaced in an extending amount different from one another to be focused on an object of a finite distance, the first lens group including a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface on the object side, a lens having a weak refractive power, and a lens having a positive refractive power, and the second lens group including four lenses or less or five lenses or less having at least one pair of a cemented lens.

Claims (56)

1. An imaging lens comprising:

an optical system including in order from an object side to an image side a first lens group having a positive refractive power and a second lens having a positive refractive power to image an optical image of an object,

the first lens group and the second lens group being displaced in an extending amount different from one another to be focused on an object of a finite distance,

the first lens group including a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface on the object side, a lens having a weak refractive power, and a lens having a positive refractive power, and

the second lens group including four lenses or less or five lenses or less having at least one pair of a cemented lens, wherein

a focal length f2 of a second lens from the object side in the first lens group, a focal length F of an entire lens system at infinity, an entire length L of the entire lens system at infinity and a maximum image height Y′ satisfy the following conditional expressions

5.0 <|f 2/ F|   [1]

3.5 <L/Y′< 4.5  [2].

2. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein an air interval d1 1-2 between a most object side lens and a lens next to the most object side lens in the first lens group and an air interval d1 2-3 between a second lens from the object side and the lens next to the second lens in the first lens group satisfy the following conditional expression

0.4 <d 1 2-3/ d 1 1-2 <3.5  [3].

3. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a distance L 2 from a most object side surface to a most image side surface in the second lens group and the focal length F of the entire lens system at infinity satisfy the following condition

0.4 <L 2/ F< 1.0  [6].

4. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a lens interval D 1 ∞ between the first lens group and the second lens group when an object is at infinity, a lens interval D 1 t between the first lens group and the second lens group when focusing on an object of a finite distance, an interval D 2 ∞ between the second lens group and an imaging surface when the object is at infinity, an interval D 2 t between the second lens group and the imaging surface when focusing on the object of a finite distance, and a distance t from a most object side surface of the first lens group to the object when the object is in a finite distance satisfy the following conditional expression (7) with Log as a common logarithm

−3.3<Log |( D 1 ∞ −D 1 t )/( D 2 ∞ −D 2 t )· t|< −2.7  [7].

5. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein an aperture stop is arranged between the first lens group and the second lens group.

6. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a most object side lens in the second lens group includes a positive refractive power and a second lens from the object side in the second lens group includes a negative refractive power,

a focal length f4 1 of the most object side lens in the second lens group and a focal length f4 2 of the second lens from the object side in the second lens group satisfy the following conditional expression

−0.8 <f 4 1/ f 4 2 <−0.5  [8].

7. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a curvature radius R2 of an image side surface of a most object side lens in the first lens group and a curvature radius R5 of an object side surface of a most image side positive lens in the first lens group satisfy the following conditional expression

1.5<|( R 5+ R 2)/( R 5− R 2)|<5.5  [9].

8. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a curvature radius R8 of an image side surface of a most object side negative lens in the second lens group and a curvature radius R9 of an object side surface of a most image side negative lens in the second lens group satisfy the following conditional expression

|( R 8+ R 9)/( R 8− R 9)|<0.5  [10].

9. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a focal length f1 of a most object side lens in the first lens group, and a focal length f3 of a most image side lens in the first lens group, or a focal length f3 of a cemented lens when the most image side lens is a cemented lens, satisfy the following conditional expression

−1.7 <f 1/ f 3<−0.5  [11].

10. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein

a lens surface on a most object side in the second lens group includes a convex shape,

a curvature radius R6 of an image side surface of a most image side lens in the first lens group and a curvature radius R7 of an object side surface of a most object side lens in the second lens group satisfy the following conditional expression

|( R 6+ R 7)/( R 6− R 7)|<1.7  [12].

11. An imaging device comprising the imaging lens according to claim 1 as an optical system for imaging.

12. An information device including an imaging function comprising the imaging lens according to claim 1 as an optical system for imaging.

13. An imaging lens comprising:

an optical system including in order from an object side to an image side a first lens group having a positive refractive power and a second lens group having a positive refractive power to image an optical image of an object,

the first lens group and the second lens group being displaced in an extending amount different from one another to be focused on an object of a finite distance,

the first lens group including on a most object side a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface on the object side, and

the second lens group including two lenses having a negative refractive power, and two lenses or more having a positive refractive power, among these, a most object side lens in the second lens group is a positive lens having a convex surface on the object side and a most image side lens in the second lens group is a positive lens having a convex surface on the image side, wherein

a focal length f5 of a second lens from the image side in the second lens group, or a focal length f5 of a cemented lens when the second lens is a cemented lens, a focal length f6 of the most image side lens in the second lens group, a focal length F of an entire lens system at infinity and a focal length F2 of the second lens group satisfy the following conditional expressions

−2.8 <f 5/ f 6<−0.8  [4]

1.0 <F 2/ F< 1.8.  [5].

14. The imaging lens according to claim 13 , wherein a length L 2 from a most object side surface to a most image side surface in the second lens group and the focal length F of an entire lens system at infinity satisfy the following conditional expression

0.4 <L 2/ F< 1.0  [6].

15. The imaging lens according to claim 13 , wherein a lens interval D 1 ∞ between the first lens group and the second lens group when an object is at infinity, a lens interval D 1 t between the first lens group and the second lens group when focusing on an object of a finite distance, an interval D 2 ∞ between the second lens group and an imaging surface when the object is at infinity, an interval D 2 t between the second lens group and the imaging surface when focusing on the object of a finite distance, and a distance t from a most object side surface of the first lens group to the object when the object is in a finite distance satisfy the following conditional expression (7) with Log as a common logarithm

−3.3<Log |( D 1 ∞ −D 1 t )/( D 2 ∞ −D 2 t )· t|<− 2.7  [7].

16. An imaging device comprising the imaging lens according to claim 13 as an optical system for imaging.

17. An information device including an imaging function comprising the imaging lens according to claim 13 as an optical system for imaging.

18. An imaging lens comprising:

an optical system including in order from an object side to an image side a first lens group having a positive refractive power and a second lens group having a positive refractive power to image an optical image of an object,

the first lens group and the second lens group being displaced in an extending amount different from one another to be focused on an object of a finite distance,

the first lens group including a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface on the object side, a lens having a weak refractive power, and a lens having a positive refractive power, and

the second lens group including five lenses or less having at least one pair of a cemented lens,

a focal length f 2 of a second lens from the object side in the first lens group, a focal length F of an entire lens system at infinity, a total length L of the entire lens system at infinity, a maximum image height Y′, an air interval d 1 1-2 between a most object side lens and a lens next to the most object side lens in the first lens group, and an air interval d 1 2-3 between the second lens from the object side in the first lens group and a lens next to the second lens satisfy the following conditional expressions

2.5 <|f 2/ F|   [13]

3.5 <L/Y′< 4.5  [14]

d 1 2-3 /d 1 1-2 <3.5  [15].

19. An imaging lens comprising the imaging lens according to claim 18 as an optical system for imaging.

20. An information device having an imaging function comprising the imaging lens according to claim 18 as an optical system for imaging.

21. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens group includes at least one aspheric surface.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 12, 2011
From: KUBOTA, TAKASHI
To: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Reel/Frame 027364/0348 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2010-277550 · Dec 13, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
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