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US 12,242,038 · App. 18/347,825 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Optical imaging system

Inventors: Il Yong Park (Suwon-si, KR); In Do Seo (Suwon-si, KR); Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
G02B13/0045G02B9/64
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Patent No.
US 12,242,038
App. No.
18/347,825
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens having negative refractive power, a fifth lens having positive refractive power, a sixth lens having a convex image-side surface, and a seventh lens, disposed sequentially from an object side. The optical imaging system satisfies −5.0<f2/f<−2.0, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system and f2 is a focal length of the second lens. An F No. of the optical imaging system is less than 1.7.

Claims (35)

1. An optical imaging system comprising:

a first lens comprising a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface;

a second lens comprising a refractive power;

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

a fourth lens comprising a refractive power;

a fifth lens comprising a refractive power and a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region;

a sixth lens comprising a refractive power; and

a seventh lens comprising a refractive power,

wherein the first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order from an object side toward an imaging plane,

wherein a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the seventh lens is greater than a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the sixth lens, and

wherein −5.0<f2/f<−2.0 and 3.0<|f4/f|, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, and f4 is a focal length of the fourth lens.

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

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

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

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

6. An optical imaging system comprising:

a first lens comprising a convex object-side surface;

a second lens comprising a refractive power;

a third lens comprising a refractive power;

a fourth lens comprising a convex object-side surface;

a fifth lens comprising a refractive power;

a sixth lens comprising a refractive power; and

a seventh lens comprising a refractive power,

wherein the first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order from an object side toward an imaging plane,

wherein a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the fifth lens is greater than a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the sixth lens, and

wherein −5.0<f2/f<−2.0 and 3.0<|f4/f|, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, and f4 is a focal length of the fourth lens.

7. The optical imaging system of claim 6 , wherein the second lens has a convex object-side surface.

8. The optical imaging system of claim 6 , wherein the third lens has a convex object-side surface.

9. The optical imaging system of claim 6 , wherein the fourth lens has a concave image-side surface.

10. The optical imaging system of claim 6 , wherein the sixth lens has positive refractive power.

11. The optical imaging system of claim 6 , wherein the seventh lens has negative refractive power.

12. The optical imaging system of claim 6 , wherein the seventh lens has a concave object-side surface.

13. The optical imaging system of claim 6 , wherein

f 5/ f< 1.0,

where f5 is a focal length of the fifth lens.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0144384 · Nov 21, 2018 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17578877 · Jan 19, 2022
Continuation 16410026 · May 13, 2019
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