IP Library › Granted Patent US 8,780,462
Granted Patent B2
US 8,780,462 · App. 13/728,687 · Granted Jul 15, 2014

Image forming lens, camera device, and handheld terminal

Inventor: Takahiro Nakayama (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
G02B9/62
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Patent No.
US 8,780,462
App. No.
13/728,687
Granted
Jul 15, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image forming lens including an aperture stop, a first lens group, and a second lens group having a positive power, the first lens group including a first F lens group having a negative power and a first R lens group having a positive power, the first F lens group including at least two negative lenses, the first R lens group including at least one positive lens, the second lens group including a second F lens group having a positive power and a second R lens group, the second F lens group including a first positive lens, a first negative lens, a second negative lens, and a second positive lens, and the second R lens group including at least one lens.

Claims (30)

1. A fixed focal length image forming lens comprising:

an aperture stop;

a first lens group arranged on an object side relative to the aperture stop; and

a second lens group having a positive power arranged on an image side relative to the aperture stop,

the first lens group comprising a first F lens group having a negative power and a first R lens group having a positive power arranged in this sequence from the object side with a widest air space within the first lens group between the first F lens group and the first R lens group, the first F lens group comprising at least two negative lenses, the first R lens group comprising at least one positive lens,

the second lens group comprising a second F lens group having a positive power and a second R lens group arranged in this sequence from the object side, the second F lens group comprising a first positive lens, a first negative lens, a second negative lens, and a second positive lens continuously arranged in this sequence from the object side,

wherein the second R lens group comprises one positive lens or one negative lens, and at least one negative lens in the second F lens group satisfies the following relationships (6) and (7):

30 <νdn< 41  (6)

Δθ gFn< 0  (7)

where νdn represents an Abbe number of a material forming at least one of the negative lenses in the second F lens group and ΔθgFn represents an abnormal dispersion property of the material,

where the abnormal dispersion property ΔθgF is defined as a deviation from a reference line defined as a straight line connecting a coordinate point of a reference glass species K7, where νd=60.49 and θgF=0.5436, and a coordinate point of a reference glass species F2, where νd=36.26 and θgF=0.5828, on a two-dimensional coordinate having two orthogonal axes of a Y axis representing a partial dispersion ratio θgF and an X axis representing an Abbe number νd, and the partial dispersion ratio θgF is defined by the following relationship:

θ gF =( ng−nF )/( nF−nC ),

where ng represents a refraction index of Fraunhofer line to g line, nF represents a refraction index of Fraunhofer line to F line, and nC represents a refraction index of Fraunhofer line to C line.

2. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein an Abbe number νdp and an abnormal dispersion property ΔθgFp of a material of at least one of the positive lenses in the second F lens group satisfy the following relationships (8) and (9):

70 <νdp   (8)

0 <ΔθgFp   (9).

3. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein a focal length f of an entire system and a focal length f 2 of the second F lens group satisfy the following relationship (10):

0.2 <f/f 2<0.5  (10).

4. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein a focal length f of an entire system and a focal length f 1 of the first lens group satisfy the following relationship (11):

|f 1 |/f> 8  (11).

5. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein an Abbe number νdn 1 and an abnormal dispersion property ΔθgFn 1 of a material of at least one of the negative lenses in the first F lens group satisfy the following relationships (12) and (13):

70 <νdn 1  (12)

0 <ΔθgFn 1  (13).

6. The image forming lens according to claim 1 , wherein the second negative lens in the second F lens group comprises a material satisfying the relationships (6) and (7).

7. A camera device comprising:

a camera body; and

the image forming lens of claim 1 .

8. The camera device according to claim 7 , wherein the image forming lens is retractable into the camera body and the second F lens group is retractable from an optical axis of the image forming lens when the image forming lens is retracted into the camera body.

9. A handheld terminal comprising:

the camera device of claim 7 .

Priority Claims (3)
JP 2009-125843 · May 25, 2009 · national
JP 2009-171544 · Jul 22, 2009 · national
JP 2009-171577 · Jul 22, 2009 · national
Continuity (2)
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