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US 12,411,307 · App. 17/553,963 · Granted Sep 9, 2025

Optical lens assembly, imaging apparatus and electronic device

Inventors: Chien-Pang Chang (Taichung, TW); Wen-Yu Tsai (Taichung, TW); Chun-Hung Teng (Taichung, TW); Kuo-Chiang Chu (Taichung, TW)
Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
G02B9/60G02B1/04G02B1/11G02B9/62G02B9/64
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Patent No.
US 12,411,307
App. No.
17/553,963
Granted
Sep 9, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical lens assembly is provided in the present disclosure. The optical lens assembly includes, from an object side to an image side, at least five optical lens elements. At least one of the optical lens elements includes an anti-reflective coating, and the optical lens element including the anti-reflective coating is made of a plastic material. The anti-reflective coating is arranged on an object-side surface or an image-side surface of the optical lens element including the anti-reflective coating. The anti-reflective coating includes at least one coating layer, and the coating layer at the outer of the anti-reflective coating is made of metal oxide. The anti-reflective coating includes a plurality of holes, and sizes of the holes adjacent to the outer of the anti-reflective coating are relatively larger than sizes of the holes adjacent to the inner of the anti-reflective coating.

Claims (44)

1. An optical lens assembly, comprising, from an object side to an image side:

at least five optical lens elements;

wherein at least one of the optical lens elements comprises an anti-reflective coating, the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is made of a plastic material, the anti-reflective coating is arranged on an object-side surface or an image-side surface of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating, the anti-reflective coating comprises at least one coating layer, the coating layer at an outer of the anti-reflective coating is made of metal oxide, the anti-reflective coating comprises a plurality of holes, and sizes of the plurality of holes adjacent to the outer of the anti-reflective coating are relatively larger than sizes of the plurality of holes adjacent to an inner of the anti-reflective coating;

wherein a refractive index of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is Ns, the coating layer at the innermost of the anti-reflective coating is a first coating layer, a refractive index of the first coating layer is N1, a thickness of the first coating layer is TL1, a super-wide field of wavelength factor of the optical lens assembly as arranging the anti-reflective coating is Farw, Farw=((N1−Ns)/(N1+Ns)) 2 , an average of tangent slopes in an optical effective diameter region of a surface of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is SPavg, a minimum of the tangent slopes in the optical effective diameter region of the surface of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is SPmin, a second anti-reflective coating arranging factor of the optical lens assembly is Far2, Far2=1/(|SPavg|×|SPmin|), and the following conditions are satisfied:

N 1< Ns;

50 nm≤ TL 1≤200 nm;

Farw≤0.60; and

0.100≤ Far 2.

2. The optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein a central thickness of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is CT, a maximum of displacements in parallel with an optical axis from an axial vertex of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating to the surface of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is SAGmax, a first anti-reflective coating arranging factor of the optical lens assembly is Far1, Far1=|SAGmax|/CT, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.500≤ Far 1.

3. The optical lens assembly of claim 2 , wherein the average of the tangent slopes in the optical effective diameter region of the surface of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is SPavg, the minimum of the tangent slopes in the optical effective diameter region of the surface of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is SPmin, the second anti-reflective coating arranging factor of the optical lens assembly is Far2, Far2=1/(|SPavg|×|SPmin), and the following condition is satisfied:

0.400≤ Far 2≤0.9.

4. The optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein a central thickness of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is CT, a maximum of displacements in parallel with an optical axis from an axial vertex of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating to the surface of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is SAGmax, a first anti-reflective coating arranging factor of the optical lens assembly is Far1, Far1=|SAGmax|/CT, the average of the tangent slopes in the optical effective diameter region of the surface of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is SPavg, the minimum of the tangent slopes in the optical effective diameter region of the surface of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is SPmin, the second anti-reflective coating arranging factor of the optical lens assembly is Far2, Far2=1/(|SPavg|×|SPmin|), the refractive index of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is Ns, the refractive index of the first coating layer is N1, the super-wide field of wavelength factor of the optical lens assembly as arranging the anti-reflective coating is Farw, Farw=((N1−Ns)/(N1+Ns) 2 , a major anti-reflective coating arranging factor of the optical lens assembly is FAR, FAR=LOG (Far1×Far2×Farw), and the following condition is satisfied:

−7.000≤ FAR.

5. The optical lens assembly of claim 4 , wherein the refractive index of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is Ns, and the following condition is satisfied:

1.530≤ Ns≤ 1.690.

6. The optical lens assembly of claim 5 , wherein the refractive index of the first coating layer is N1, and the following condition is satisfied:

1.37≤ N 1≤1.63.

7. The optical lens assembly of claim 6 , wherein a material of the first coating layer is SiO 2 .

8. The optical lens assembly of claim 7 , wherein the anti-reflective coating comprises at least two coating layers made of different main materials.

9. The optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein a wavelength at a trough with lowest reflectance of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is Wtmin, and the following condition is satisfied:

400 nm≤ Wt min≤750 nm.

10. The optical lens assembly of claim 9 , wherein a reflectance at the trough with lowest reflectance of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is Rtmin, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.01%≤ Rt min≤0.50%.

11. The optical lens assembly of claim 10 , wherein an average reflectance between a wavelength of 400 nm-1000 nm of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is R40100, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.05%≤ R 40100≤1.5%.

12. The optical lens assembly of claim 11 , wherein a reflectance at a wavelength of 700 nm of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating is R70, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.01%≤ R 70≤1.0%.

13. The optical lens assembly of claim 12 , wherein at least one surface of the optical lens element comprising the anti-reflective coating comprises at least one inflection point.

14. The optical lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein a total number of coating layers of the anti-reflective coating is tLs, and the following condition is satisfied:

1≤ tLs≤ 2.

15. The optical lens assembly of claim 14 , wherein the anti-reflective coating comprises a second coating layer connected to the first coating layer, a thickness of the second coating layer is TL2, and the following condition is satisfied:

100 nm≤ TL 2≤250 nm.

16. The optical lens assembly of claim 15 , wherein a total thickness of the first coating layer and the second coating layer of the anti-reflective coating is tTk, and the following condition is satisfied:

100 nm≤ tTk≤ 300 nm.

17. An imaging apparatus, comprising:

the optical lens assembly of claim 1 ; and

an image sensor disposed on an image surface of the optical lens assembly.

18. An electronic device, which is a mobile device, and the electronic device comprising:

the imaging apparatus of claim 17 .

19. An imaging apparatus, comprising:

the optical lens assembly of claim 1 ;

a Fresnel lens element, wherein at least one surface of the Fresnel lens element comprises an anti-reflective coating, and the anti-reflective coating of the Fresnel lens element is made of aluminum oxide; and

an image sensor disposed on an image surface of the optical lens assembly.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 17, 2021
From: CHANG, CHIEN-PANG; TSAI, WEN-YU; TENG, CHUN-HUNG; CHU, KUO-CHIANG
To: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 058414/0122 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 110134271 · Sep 14, 2021 · national
Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 63129826 · Dec 23, 2020
Provisional Application 63137772 · Jan 15, 2021
Related Publication 20220196970A1 · Jun 23, 2022
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