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US 12,210,215 · App. 17/406,130 · Granted Jan 28, 2025

Optical imaging system including seven lenses of various refractive powers

Inventors: Ju Hwa Son (Suwon-si, KR); Min Hyuk Im (Suwon-si, KR); Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, KR); Ga Young An (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
G02B9/64G02B27/0025H04N23/55G02B5/005G02B13/0045G02B13/18
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Patent No.
US 12,210,215
App. No.
17/406,130
Granted
Jan 28, 2025
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 disposed in numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, wherein the optical imaging system satisfies 1<|f123457−f|/f, where f123457 is a composite focal length of the first to seventh lenses calculated with an index of refraction of the sixth lens set to 1.0, f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and f123457 and f are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

Claims (39)

1. An optical imaging system comprising:

a first lens having 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 third lens having a negative refractive power;

a fourth lens having a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof;

a fifth lens having a negative refractive power;

a sixth lens having a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof; and

a seventh lens having a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof and a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof;

wherein the first to seventh lens 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 imaging plane of the optical imaging system, and

the optical imaging system satisfies the following conditional expressions:

0.05< R 1/ R 6<0.9

0.2< R 1/ R 11<1.2

R 5> R 7

where R1 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of the object-side surface of the first lens, R5 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of an object-side surface of the third lens, R6 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of an image-side surface of the third lens, R7 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of the object-side surface of the fourth lens, R11 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of the object-side surface of the sixth lens, and R1, R5, R6, R7, and R11 are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

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

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

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

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

6. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the fourth lens has a positive refractive power.

7. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the sixth lens has a positive refractive power.

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

9. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies the following conditional expression:

0.01< R 1/ R 4<1.3

where R4 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of an image-side surface of the second lens, and R1 and R4 are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

10. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies the following conditional expression:

0.6<( R 11+ R 14)/(2* R 1)<3.0

where R14 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of the image-side surface of the seventh lens, and R1, R11, and R14 are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

11. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies the following conditional expression:

0.6 <TTL /(2*(IMG HT))<0.9

where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, IMG HT is an image height on the imaging plane and is equal to one half of a diagonal length of the imaging plane, and TTL and IMG HT are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

12. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies the following conditional expression:

0.2 <ΣSD/ΣTD <0.7

where ΣSD is a sum of air gaps along the optical axis between the first to seventh lenses, ΣTD is a sum of thicknesses along the optical axis of the first to seventh lenses, and ΣSD and ΣTD are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

13. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies the following conditional expression:

0<min( f 1: f 3)/max( f 4: f 7)<0.4

where min (f1:f3) is a minimum value of absolute values of focal lengths of the first to third lenses, max (f4:f7) is a maximum value of absolute values of focal lengths of the fourth to seventh lenses, and min (f1:f3) and max (f4:f7) are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

14. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies the following conditional expression:

0.4<(Σ TD )/ TTL <0.7

where ΣTD is a sum of thicknesses along the optical axis of the first to seventh lenses, TTL is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and ΣTD and TTL are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2018-0061394 · May 29, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0106186 · Sep 5, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16424708 · May 29, 2019
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