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Granted Patent B2
US 12,242,037 · App. 18/322,130 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Optical system

Inventor: Ju Hwa Son (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
G02B13/0045G02B9/64G02B13/04
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Patent No.
US 12,242,037
App. No.
18/322,130
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical system includes a first lens having negative refractive power and having two concave surfaces, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having refractive power, a fourth lens having refractive power, a fifth lens having refractive power, a sixth lens having refractive power, and a seventh lens having refractive power. The first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side.

Claims (23)

1. An optical system comprising:

a first lens having negative refractive power, a concave object-side surface and a concave image-side surface;

a second lens having positive refractive power and a convex object-side surface;

a third lens having positive refractive power and a convex object-side surface;

a fourth lens having positive refractive power;

a fifth lens having negative refractive power;

a sixth lens having positive refractive power; and

a seventh lens having negative refractive power,

wherein the first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side,

wherein the optical system has a total of seven lenses,

wherein the seventh lens has an inflection point formed on either one or both of an object-side surface of the seventh lens and an image-side surface of the seventh lens, and

wherein 3.7<TTL/EFL<4 is satisfied,

where TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging surface of an image sensor, and EFL is an overall focal length of the optical system.

2. The optical system of claim 1 , wherein 53°<ANG/Fno<61° is satisfied, ANG being a field of view of the optical system and Fno being a constant indicating brightness of the optical system.

3. The optical system of claim 1 , wherein ANG≥90° is satisfied, ANG being a field of view of the optical system.

4. The optical system of claim 1 , wherein the fourth lens has a convex object-side surface.

5. The optical system of claim 4 , wherein the fourth lens has a convex image-side surface.

6. The optical system of claim 1 , wherein the fifth lens has a concave object-side surface.

7. The optical system of claim 6 , wherein the fifth lens has a convex image-side surface.

8. The optical system of claim 1 , wherein the sixth lens has a convex object-side surface.

9. The optical system of claim 8 , wherein the sixth lens has a convex image-side surface.

10. The optical system of claim 9 , wherein the seventh lens has a convex object-side surface.

11. The optical system of claim 10 , wherein the seventh lens has a concave image-side surface.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2014-0139756 · Oct 16, 2014 · national
Continuity (5)
Continuation 17831553 · Jun 3, 2022
Continuation 16866075 · May 4, 2020
Continuation 16140768 · Sep 25, 2018
Division 14643253 · Mar 10, 2015
Related Publication 20230296864A1 · Sep 21, 2023
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