IP Library Granted Patent US 9,784,952
Granted Patent B2
US 9,784,952 · App. 15/132,704 · Granted Oct 10, 2017

Magnification optical system

Inventors: Hibiki Tatsuno (Kawasaki, JP); Kiichiro Nishina (Yokohama, JP); Yasuyuki Shibayama (Ebina, JP); Takanobu Osaka (Yokohama, JP); Makoto Hirakawa (Hiratsuka, JP)
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
G02B13/16G02B7/04G02B7/10G02B17/08G03B21/147
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Patent No.
US 9,784,952
App. No.
15/132,704
Granted
Oct 10, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A magnification optical system forms an enlarged image of an object. It includes a refractive optical system including a plurality of lens groups; and a mirror train including a curved mirror, arranged in this order from an object side, a first focus structure configured to move the respective lens groups of the refractive optical system by different amounts along a normal line of a conjugate surface on the object side, and a second focus structure configured to move the respective lens groups along the normal line of the conjugate surface on the object side by different amounts from those of the first focus structure.

Claims (34)

1. A magnification optical system that enlarges an image of an object, the magnification optical system comprising:

a refractive optical system including, in order from an object side to an enlarged side,

a first lens group having a positive power,

a second lens group,

a third lens group including a plurality of lenses, and

a fourth lens group that is adjacent to the third lens group, the fourth lens group arranged on the enlarged side of the first, second and third lens groups;

a curved mirror that reflects light from the refractive optical system; and

a focus structure that moves the third lens group and the fourth lens group and does not move the first lens group.

2. The magnification optical system according to claim 1 , wherein

the focus structure further moves the second lens group, and

the focus structure moves the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group by different amounts.

3. The magnification optical system according to claim 2 , wherein the focus structure includes

a first focus structure that moves the second lens group and the third lens group, and

a second focus structure that moves the fourth lens group.

4. The magnification optical system according to claim 3 , wherein the second focus structure is fixed after a focus adjustment is performed by the second focus structure.

5. The magnification optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the fourth lens group comprises a single lens that is closer to the curved mirror in the refractive optical system than each of the other lenses in the first, second, third and fourth lens groups.

6. A magnification optical system that enlarges an image of an object, the magnification optical system comprising:

a first optical system including a plurality of lens groups;

a second optical system including a curved mirror that reflects light received from the first optical system; and

a focus structure that moves a part of the plurality of lens groups of the first optical system, wherein

the plurality of lens groups includes, in order from an object side to an enlarged side,

a first lens group,

a second lens group,

a third lens group, and

a fourth lens group that is adjacent to the third lens group, the fourth lens group arranged on the enlarged side of the first, second and third lens groups, and

the focus structure moves the third lens group and the fourth lens group, and does not move the first lens group, to change an interval between the fourth lens group and the third lens group.

7. The magnification optical system according to claim 6 , wherein

the focus structure further moves the second lens group, and

the focus structure moves the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group by different amounts.

8. The magnification optical system according to claim 7 , wherein the focus structure includes

a first focus structure that moves the second lens group and the third lens group, and

a second focus structure that moves the fourth lens group.

9. The magnification optical system according to claim 8 , wherein the second focus structure is fixed after a focus adjustment is performed by the second focus structure.

10. The magnification optical system according to claim 6 , wherein the fourth lens group comprises a single lens that is closer to the curved mirror in the refractive optical system than each of the other lenses in the first, second, third and fourth lens groups.

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