IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,140,738
Granted Patent B2
US 12,140,738 · App. 18/522,674 · Granted Nov 12, 2024

Optical imaging system

Inventors: Ju Hwa Son (Suwon-si, KR); In Gun Kim (Suwon-si, KR); Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, KR); Ju Sung Park (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
G02B13/0045G02B9/64
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Patent No.
US 12,140,738
App. No.
18/522,674
Granted
Nov 12, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side toward an image side. The fifth lens has a positive refractive power, a focal length of the fifth lens is smaller than an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and −0.38≤R10/f≤−0.32, where R10 is a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the fifth lens and f is the overall focal length of the optical imaging system.

Claims (26)

1. An optical imaging system comprising:

a first lens having a positive refractive power, a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, and a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof;

a second lens having a negative refractive power, a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, and a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof;

a third lens having a positive refractive power;

a fourth lens having a negative refractive power;

a fifth lens having a positive refractive power;

a sixth lens having a refractive power; and

a seventh lens having a refractive power,

wherein the first to seventh lenses are sequentially arranged in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an image side of the optical imaging system,

TTL/f<1.3, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, and f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and

−0.38≤R10/f≤−0.32, where R10 is a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the fifth lens at the optical axis, and f is the overall focal length of the optical imaging system.

2. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the seventh lens has a negative refractive power.

3. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the third lens has a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof.

4. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the third lens has a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof.

5. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the fourth lens has a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof.

6. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the fourth lens has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof.

7. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the fifth lens has a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof.

8. The optical imaging system of claim 7 , wherein the image-side surface of the fifth lens is convex in a paraxial region thereof.

9. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the seventh lens has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof.

10. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the fourth lens is made of a plastic material having an Abbe number, and the fifth lens is made of a plastic material having an Abbe number that is different from the Abbe number of the plastic material of the fourth lens.

11. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the fifth to seventh lenses have a same Abbe number.

12. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the fifth to seventh lenses have a same refractive index.

13. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the first lens is made of a plastic material having an Abbe number, and the second lens is made of a plastic material having an Abbe number that is different from the Abbe number of the plastic material of the first lens.

14. The optical imaging system of claim 13 , wherein the second lens is made of a plastic material having an Abbe number, and the third lens is made of a plastic material having an Abbe number that is different from the Abbe number of the plastic material of the second lens.

15. The optical imaging system of claim 14 , wherein the third lens is made of a plastic material having an Abbe number, and the fourth lens is made of a plastic material having an Abbe number that is different from the Abbe number of the plastic material of the third lens.

16. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein at least one inflection point is formed on either one or both of an object-side surface of the seventh lens and an image-side surface of the seventh lens.

Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2018-0008941 · Jan 24, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0067541 · Jun 12, 2018 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17727099 · Apr 22, 2022
Continuation 16186810 · Nov 12, 2018
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