IP Library Granted Patent US 12,422,647
Granted Patent B2
US 12,422,647 · App. 17/158,192 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Optical imaging system

Inventors: Dong Hyuk Jang (Suwon-si, KR); Byung Hyun Kim (Suwon-si, KR); Jae Hyuk Huh (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
G02B13/004G02B27/0025H04N23/55
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Patent No.
US 12,422,647
App. No.
17/158,192
Granted
Sep 23, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical imaging system includes four or more lenses disposed in order from an object side. Among the lenses, a frontmost lens disposed to be closest to an object side has two or more reflective surfaces. Among the lenses, a rearmost lens disposed to be closest to an image side has an inflection point formed on at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface.

Claims (37)

1. An optical imaging system, comprising:

a total of five lenses, wherein each of the five lenses has a refractive power, and the five lenses are disposed in order from an object side to an imaging side,

wherein among the lenses, a frontmost lens disposed to be closest to an object side has two or more reflective surfaces,

wherein the frontmost lens has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region,

wherein a lens most adjacent to the frontmost lens has negative refractive power and a concave object-side surface,

wherein among the lenses, a rearmost lens disposed to be closest to the imaging side has an inflection point formed on at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface,

wherein a rear lens most adjacent to the rearmost lens has negative refractive power,

wherein 0<V1−V2<30, where V1 is an Abbe number of the foremost lens and V2 is an Abbe number of a lens most adjacent to the foremost lens, and

wherein a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of a third lens among the lenses is greater than a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the third lens.

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

3. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the rearmost lens has a concave image-side surface.

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

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

6. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein:

0.28< TTL/f< 0.32,

where TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the frontmost lens to an imaging plane, and f is a focal length of the optical imaging system.

7. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein:

1.0< f/f 1<2.0,

where f is a focal length of the optical imaging system, and f1 is a focal length of the frontmost lens.

8. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein:

3.30< L 1 S 1 ER/L 1 S 2 ER< 5.80,

where L1S1ER is an effective radius of an object-side surface of the frontmost lens, and L1S2ER is an effective radius of an image-side surface of the frontmost lens.

9. An optical imaging system, comprising:

a total of five lenses, each of which with refractive power, including a first lens having a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region, a second lens having negative refractive power and a concave object-side surface, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, disposed in order from an object side to an imaging side,

wherein the first lens has a first reflective surface, configured to reflect light incident from an object-side surface of the first lens, and a second reflective surface configured to reflect the light, reflected by the first reflective surface, to an image-side surface of the first lens,

wherein the fourth lens has negative refractive power,

wherein 0<V1−V2<30, where V1 is an Abbe number of the first lens and V2 is an Abbe number of the second lens, and

wherein a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the third lens is greater than a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the third lens.

10. The optical imaging system of claim 9 , wherein the first lens has positive refractive power.

11. The optical imaging system of claim 9 , wherein the third lens has positive refractive index.

12. The optical imaging system of claim 9 , wherein:

0.28< TTL/f< 0.32,

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

13. The optical imaging system of claim 9 , wherein the fifth lens is disposed to an image side of the fourth lens.

14. The optical imaging system of claim 13 , wherein the fifth lens has negative refractive power.

15. The optical imaging system of claim 13 , wherein an inflection point is formed on an object-side surface or an image-side surface of the fifth lens.

16. The optical imaging system of claim 9 , wherein 1.1<L1TL/TTL<1.3, where L1TL is a sum of a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to the first reflective surface, a distance from the first reflective surface to the second reflective surface, and a distance from the second reflective surface to the imaging plane of the optical imaging system, and TTL is a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 26, 2021
From: JANG, DONG HYUK; KIM, BYUNG HYUN; HUH, JAE HYUK
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.,
Reel/Frame 055029/0672 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0120653 · Sep 18, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220091372A1 · Mar 24, 2022
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