IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,196,935
Granted Patent B2
US 12,196,935 · App. 17/975,956 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Imaging optical system

Inventor: Keigo Ikeda (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: SIGMA CORPORATION
G02B15/1461G02B13/02G02B15/20
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Patent No.
US 12,196,935
App. No.
17/975,956
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging optical system includes: sequentially from an object side, a first lens group G 1 having a positive refractive power, a front lens group GF having a negative refractive power, and a rear lens group GR having a positive refractive power; wherein for zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, a distance between G 1 and GF increases, a distance between GF and GR decreases, and G 1 monotonously moves to an object side, G 1 has at least one negative lens, GF includes a lens group having a negative refractive power of 1 or more, GR has a final lens group GL arranged closest to an image plane I side, and is fixed to I, and does not move for zooming and focusing, GL has a vibration reduction lens group movable in a direction including a perpendicular component with respect to an optical axis, and prescribed conditional expressions are satisfied.

Claims (55)

1. An imaging optical system comprising: sequentially from an object side, a first lens group G 1 having a positive refractive power, a front lens group GF having a negative refractive power, and a rear lens group GR having a positive refractive power,

wherein for zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, a distance between the first lens group G 1 and the front lens group GF increases, a distance between the front lens group GF and the rear lens group GR decreases, and the first lens group G 1 monotonously moves to the object side,

the first lens group G 1 has at least one negative lens,

the front lens group GF includes a lens group having a negative refractive power of 1 or more,

the rear lens group GR has a final lens group GL arranged closest to an image plane side, and is fixed to an image plane I, and moreover, does not move for zooming and focusing, and

the final lens group GL has a vibration reduction lens group GS movable in a direction including a perpendicular component with respect to an optical axis, and the imaging optical system satisfies following conditional expressions,

0.30< f 1/ fT< 1.50  (1)

0.80<| f 1 n|/f 1<4.00  (2)

20.0< LTT×FnoT/Y max<50.0  (3)

where

f1: focal length of the first lens group G 1

fT: focal length at a time of focusing on infinity of the imaging optical system at the telephoto end;

f1n: focal length of at least one negative lens of negative lenses included in the first lens group G 1 ;

LTT: total optical length of the imaging optical system at the telephoto end;

FnoT: open F number at a time of focusing on infinity of the imaging optical system at the telephoto end; and

Ymax: maximum image height at the imaging optical system.

2. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the front lens group GF has positive lenses, and the positive lens positioned closest to the object side thereof satisfies a following conditional expression:

PgFFp +0.0022 ×vdFp <0.678  (4)

where

PgFFp: a partial dispersion ratio regarding a g line and an F line of the positive lens positioned closest to the object side of the positive lenses included in the front lens group GF; and

vdFp: an abbe number regarding a d line of the positive lens positioned closest to the object side of the positive lenses included in the front lens group GF.

3. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the final lens group GL has negative lenses, and at least one negative lens thereof satisfies a following conditional expression:

0.658< PgFLn +0.0021× vdLn   (5)

where

PgFLn: a partial dispersion ratio regarding a g line and an F line of at least one negative lens of the negative lenses included in the final lens group GL; and

vdLn: an abbe number regarding a d line of at least one negative lens of the negative lenses included in the final lens group GL.

4. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the rear lens group GR has an object side lens group GO having a positive refractive power closest to the object side, and has at least one focusing lens group GFcs moving, along the optical axis, for focusing from an infinite distance object to a close distance object closer to the image plane side than the object side lens group GO.

5. The imaging optical system according to claim 4 , wherein the rear lens group GR has an aperture stop S, the aperture stop S is fixed to the image plane I for zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end, and of the lens groups positioned closer to the image side than the aperture stop S, all the lens groups moving along the optical axis, for zooming from the wide-angle end to the telephoto end are the focusing lens groups GFcs moving along the optical axis, for focusing from the infinite distance object to the close distance object.

6. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , satisfying a following conditional expression:

2.50< f 1/| fFW|< 5.00  (6)

where

f1: focal length of the first lens group G 1 ; and

fFW: focal length of the front lens group GF at the wide-angle end.

7. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , satisfying a following conditional expression:

L 1/ LTW< 0.17  (7)

where

L1: length on the optical axis from a lens surface closest to the object side to a lens surface closest to the image side of the first lens group G 1 ; and

LTW: total optical length of the imaging optical system at the wide-angle end.

8. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , wherein at least one negative lens of the negative lenses included in the first lens group G 1 satisfies following conditional expressions:

vd 1 n< 50.0  (8)

PgF 1 n+ 0.0024× vd 1 n< 0.677  (9)

where

vd1n: an abbe number regarding a d line of at least one negative lens of the negative lenses included in the first lens group G 1 ; and

PgF1n: a partial dispersion ratio regarding a g line and an F line of at least one negative lens of the negative lenses included in the first lens group G 1 .

9. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , satisfying a following conditional expression:

0.55<| fS|/fW< 1.20  (10)

where

fS: focal length of the vibration reduction lens group GS; and

fW: focal length at a time of focusing on infinity of the imaging optical system at the wide-angle end.

10. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , satisfying a following conditional expression:

BF/Y max<3.00  (11)

where

BF: back focus at the imaging optical system; and

Ymax: maximum image height at the imaging optical system.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 28, 2022
From: IKEDA, KEIGO
To: SIGMA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061582/0175 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-092558 · Jun 7, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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