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Granted Patent B2
US 10,663,706 · App. 16/502,981 · Granted May 26, 2020

Zoom optical system

Inventors: Tae Youn Lee (Suwon-si, KR); Jung Hui Ko (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
G02B15/177G02B13/009G02B5/005G02B5/208G02B13/02G02B27/0025
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Patent No.
US 10,663,706
App. No.
16/502,981
Granted
May 26, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A zoom optical system includes a first lens group, a position of which with respect to an imaging plane is adjustable, and including first and second lenses. The zoom optical system also includes a second lens group of which a position with respect to the imaging plane is adjustable and includes third to fifth lenses. The zoom optical system further includes a third lens group including a sixth lens. An object-side surface of the first lens is convex.

Claims (40)

1. A zoom optical system, comprising:

a first lens group comprising a negative refractive power;

a second lens group comprising a positive refractive power; and

a third lens group comprising a positive refractive power,

wherein

the first to third lens groups are sequentially disposed from an object side toward an imaging plane,

upon zooming from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position, a gap between the first and second lens groups is decreased,

a gap between the second and third lens groups is adjustable,

the first lens group comprises a first lens and a second lens, the second lens group comprises a third lens having a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, and the third group comprises a sixth lens, and

1.9≤|fG1/fw|≤3.0, 4.0<ft/fw<7.0, and 1.61<n4<1.68, where fw is an overall focal length of the zoom optical system in the wide-angle position, fG1 is a synthesized focal length of the first lens group, ft is an overall focal length of the zoom optical system in the telephoto position, and n4 is a refractive index of the fourth lens.

2. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein

the first lens comprises a negative refractive power and is made of plastic, and one surface thereof is aspherical, and

the second lens comprises a positive refractive power, having a meniscus shape, and made of plastic.

3. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein the third lens comprises a positive refractive power, is made of plastic, and an object-side surface thereof is convex;

the fourth lens is made of plastic, and

the fifth lens is made of plastic.

4. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein the sixth lens comprises a positive refractive power and is made of plastic.

5. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , further comprising a stop disposed between the first and second lens groups.

6. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein an image-side surface of the first lens is concave and an object-side surface of the first lens is one of convex and concave.

7. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein the first to sixth lenses have an aspherical shape.

8. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein 1.51<n3<1.57, where n3 is a refractive index of the third lens.

9. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein 0.7<|fG2/fG1|<1.2, where fG1 is the synthesized focal length of the first lens group, and fG2 is a synthesized focal length of the second lens group.

10. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein 1.4<fG2/fw<2.8, where fG2 is a synthesized focal length of the second lens group, and fw is the overall focal length of the zoom optical system in the wide-angle position.

11. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein TG1+TG2+TG3<8.5, where TG1 is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an image-side surface of the second lens, TG2 is a distance from an object-side surface of the third lens to an image-side surface of the fifth lens, TG3 is a thickness of the sixth lens at a center of an optical axis.

12. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein 0.25<1−MG3T2<0.6, where MG3T is an imaging magnification of the third lens group positioned in the telephoto position at infinity.

13. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein 4.0<MG2T/MG2W<6.8, where MG2T is an imaging magnification of the second lens group positioned in the telephoto position at infinity, and MG2W is an imaging magnification of the second lens group positioned in the wide-angle position at infinity.

14. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein 50<V1<60, where V1 is an Abbe number of the first lens.

15. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein 30<V1−V2<37, where V1 is an Abbe number of the first lens and V2 is an Abbe number of the second lens.

16. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein n1+n2<3.25, where n1 is a refractive index of the first lens and n2 is a refractive index of the second lens.

17. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein 0<n4−n1<0.2, where n1 is a refractive index of the first lens and n4 is the refractive index of the fourth lens.

18. The zoom optical system of claim 1 , wherein 2.2<fw/EPDw<3.0, where fw is the overall focal length of the zoom optical system in the wide-angle position and EPDw is an entrance pupil diameter in the wide-angle position.

19. A zoom optical system, comprising:

a first lens comprising a negative refractive power;

a second lens comprising a positive refractive power;

a third lens comprising a positive refractive power and a convex image-side surface;

a fourth lens comprising a negative refractive power;

a fifth lens comprising a positive refractive power; and

a sixth lens comprising a positive refractive power and an object-side surface thereof being convex,

wherein the first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side toward an imaging plane, and

positions of the first to fifth lenses with respect to the imaging plane are adjustable.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2016-0009269 · Jan 26, 2016 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 16032676 · Jul 11, 2018
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