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US 12,242,137 · App. 18/524,122 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Optical imaging system

Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh (Suwon-si, KR); Jae Hyun Baik (Suwon-si, KR); Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
G02B9/64G02B27/0025G02B3/04G02B13/18
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Patent No.
US 12,242,137
App. No.
18/524,122
Granted
Mar 4, 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 ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging surface of an image sensor, wherein a conditional expression f/f2+f/f3<−0.4 is satisfied, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, and f3 is a focal length of the third lens, and a conditional expression TTL/(2*IMG HT)<0.69 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging surface of the image sensor, and IMG HT is one-half of a diagonal length of the imaging surface of the image sensor.

Claims (21)

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 and a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof;

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

a sixth lens having a refractive power; and

a seventh lens having a negative refractive power,

wherein the first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed 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 surface of an image sensor,

a conditional expression n2+n3+n4>4.85 is satisfied, where n2 is a refractive index of the second lens, n3 is a refractive index of the third lens, and n4 is a refractive index of the fourth lens, and

a conditional expression 1.4<|f23|/f1<2.8 is satisfied, where f1 is a focal length of the first lens, and f23 is a composite focal length of the second lens and the third lens.

2. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein a conditional expression TTL/(2×IMG HT)<0.69 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging surface of the image sensor, and IMG HT is one-half of a diagonal length of the imaging surface of the image sensor.

3. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein a conditional expression 0.15<BFL/f<0.25 is satisfied, where BFL is a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the seventh lens to the imaging surface of the image sensor, and f is a focal length of the optical imaging system.

4. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein a conditional expression v1−v2>30 is satisfied, where v1 is an Abbe number of the first lens, and v2 is an Abbe number of the second lens.

5. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein a conditional expression n2+n3>3.15 is satisfied.

6. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein a conditional expression Fno<2.3 is satisfied, where Fno is a F-number of the optical imaging system.

7. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein a conditional expression 0.005<D1/f<0.04 is satisfied, where D1 is a distance along the optical axis between the image-side surface of the first lens and the object-side surface of the second lens, and f is a focal length of the optical imaging system.

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

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

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

11. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein each of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of each of the first lens to the seventh lens is aspherical.

Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2019-0020453 · Feb 21, 2019 · national
KR 10-2019-0091493 · Jul 29, 2019 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17099004 · Nov 16, 2020
Continuation 16778496 · Jan 31, 2020
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