IP Library Granted Patent US 12,306,466
Granted Patent B2
US 12,306,466 · App. 18/350,201 · Granted May 20, 2025

Optical imaging system

Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh (Suwon-si, KR); Byung Hyun Kim (Suwon-si, KR); So Mi Yang (Suwon-si, KR); Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
G02B9/60G02B13/0045G02B13/0065
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Patent No.
US 12,306,466
App. No.
18/350,201
Granted
May 20, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical imaging system includes a first lens having a refractive power; a second lens having a refractive power; a third lens having a refractive power; a fourth lens having a concave object-side surface; and a fifth lens having a concave object-side surface, wherein the first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side toward an imaging plane, a thickness of the fourth lens along an optical axis is greater than a thickness of the fifth lens along an optical axis, and |f/f1+f/f2|<1.2, where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, f1 is a focal length of the first lens, and f2 is a focal length of the second lens.

Claims (22)

1. An optical imaging system comprising:

a first lens having a refractive power;

a second lens having a refractive power and a concave image-side surface in an optical axis region thereof;

a third lens having a refractive power;

a fourth lens having a concave object-side surface in an optical axis region thereof; and

a fifth lens having a concave object-side surface in an optical axis region thereof,

wherein the first to fifth 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 plane of the optical imaging system,

a thickness of the fourth lens along the optical axis is greater than a thickness of the fifth lens along the optical axis,

a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the third lens is greater than a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the first lens, and

the following conditional expressions are satisfied:

| f/f 1 +f/f 2|<1.2

R 1 /f ≤0.265

0.2<( D 23 +D 34 +D 45)/ BFL <0.5

where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, f1 is a focal length of the first lens, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, R1 is a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the first lens, D23 is a distance along the optical axis from the image-side surface of the second lens to the object-side surface of the third lens, D34 is a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the third lens to the object-side surface of the fourth lens, D45 is a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the fourth lens to the object-side surface of the fifth lens, and BFL is a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the fifth lens to the imaging plane.

2. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the object-side surface of the first lens is convex in an optical axis region thereof.

3. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the image-side surface of the first lens is convex in an optical axis region thereof.

4. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the second lens has a concave object-side surface in an optical axis region thereof.

5. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the object-side surface of the third lens is convex in an optical axis region thereof.

6. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the image-side surface of the third lens is convex in an optical axis region thereof.

7. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the image-side surface of the fourth lens is convex in an optical axis region thereof.

8. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the image-side surface of the fifth lens is convex in an optical axis region thereof.

9. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein 0≤D12/f≤0.07, where D12 is a distance along the optical axis from the image-side surface of the first lens to an object-side surface of the second lens.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0053742 · May 6, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16997045 · Aug 19, 2020
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