IP Library Granted Patent US 9,547,155
Granted Patent B2
US 9,547,155 · App. 14/461,756 · Granted Jan 17, 2017

Seven-piece optical lens for capturing image and seven-piece optical modules for capturing image

Inventor: Kuo-Yu Liao (Taichung, TW)
Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
G02B13/0045G02B9/64
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Patent No.
US 9,547,155
App. No.
14/461,756
Granted
Jan 17, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention discloses a seven-piece optical lens for capturing image and a seven-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens element; a second lens element; a third lens element; a fourth lens element with positive refractive power; a fifth lens element; a sixth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex image-side; and a seventh lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side, and the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, and the fifth lens element have refractive power, and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of the second lens element, the sixth lens element, and the seventh lens element are aspheric.

Claims (34)

1. A seven-piece optical lens for capturing image, in order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along an optical axis comprising:

a first lens element with refractive power near the optical axis;

a second lens element with refractive power near the optical axis, wherein at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the second lens element are aspheric;

a third lens element with refractive power near the optical axis;

a fourth lens element with positive refractive power near the optical axis;

a fifth lens element with refractive power near the optical axis;

a sixth lens element with positive refractive power near the optical axis and having a convex image-side surface, wherein at least one of an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are aspheric; and

a seventh lens element with positive refractive power near the optical axis and having a convex object-side surface, wherein at least one of an image-side surface and the object-side surface of the seventh lens element are aspheric, wherein f is a focal length of the seven-piece optical lens for capturing image, FL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens element to the image-side surface of the seventh lens element along the optical axis, and the following relation is satisfied:

1.0< FL/f< 8.0.

2. The seven-piece optical lens for capturing image of claim 1 , wherein FL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens element to the image-side surface of the seventh lens element along the optical axis, ct3 is a central thickness of the third lens element, and the following relation is satisfied:

3.0< FL/ct 3<13.0.

3. The seven-piece optical lens for capturing image of claim 1 , wherein Dg is a diagonal length of an image-plane for the max image-forming perspective view of the seven-piece optical lens for capturing image, ct3 is a central thickness of the third lens element, and the following relation is satisfied:

0.8< Dg/ct 3<8.0.

4. The seven-piece optical lens for capturing image of claim 1 , wherein f is a focal length of the seven-piece optical lens for capturing image, R 2 is a curvature radius of the image-side surface of the first lens element near the optical axis, and the following relation is satisfied:

0.4< f/R 2<2.5.

5. The seven-piece optical lens for capturing image of claim 1 , wherein the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth or the seventh lens elements comprise a plastic material.

6. A seven-piece optical module for capturing image, comprising:

a seven-piece optical lens for capturing image, in order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along an optical axis comprising:

a first lens element with refractive power near the optical axis;

a second lens element with refractive power near the optical axis, wherein at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the second lens element are aspheric;

a third lens element with refractive power near the optical axis;

a fourth lens element with positive refractive power near the optical axis;

a fifth lens element with refractive power near the optical axis;

a sixth lens element with positive refractive power near the optical axis and having a convex image-side surface, wherein at least one of an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are aspheric; and

a seventh lens element with positive refractive power near the optical axis and having a convex object-side surface, wherein at least one of an image-side surface and the object-side surface of the seventh lens element are aspheric;

an image sensing device, disposed on an image-plane for image formation for an object; and

an aperture stop disposed between the object and the fourth lens element, wherein f is a focal length of the seven-piece optical lens for capturing image, FL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens element to the image-side surface of the seventh lens element along the optical axis, and the following relation is satisfied:

1.0< FL/f< 8.0.

7. The seven-piece optical module for capturing image of claim 6 , wherein Dg is a diagonal length of the image-plane for a max image-forming perspective view of the lens of the seven-piece optical lens for capturing image, FL is a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens element to the image-side surface of the seventh lens element along the optical axis, and the following relation is satisfied:

3.0< FL/Dg< 20.0.

8. The seven-piece optical module for capturing image of claim 6 , further comprising an IR-CUT filter adjusting passing wavelength section of light of the image.

9. The seven-piece optical module for capturing image of claim 8 , wherein the IR-CUT filter comprises a plate glass material.

10. The seven-piece optical module for capturing image of claim 8 , wherein the seven-piece optical module for capturing image imagines the object on the image sensing device by combination of the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth and the seventh lens elements, the aperture stop, the IR-CUT filter and a protective lens.

11. The seven-piece optical module for capturing image of claim 6 , wherein the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, or the seventh lens elements comprise a plastic material.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 25, 2014
From: LIAO, KUO-YU
To: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
Reel/Frame 033605/0578 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 102148594 A · Dec 27, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
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