IP Library Granted Patent US 12,461,339
Granted Patent B2
US 12,461,339 · App. 17/459,278 · Granted Nov 4, 2025

Optical imaging system

Inventors: Ho Sik Yoo (Suwon-si, KR); Dong Shin Yang (Suwon-si, KR); Yong Joo Jo (Suwon-si, KR); Ga Young An (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
G02B9/64G02B27/0025H04N23/55G02B5/005G02B13/0045G02B13/18
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Patent No.
US 12,461,339
App. No.
17/459,278
Granted
Nov 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 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, wherein the first to seventh lenses are spaced apart from each other along the optical axis, and the optical imaging system satisfies 0.1<L1w/L7w<0.4, where L1w is a weight of the first lens, L7w is a weight of the seventh lens, and L1w and L7w are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

Claims (24)

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 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 fourth lens having a positive refractive power and a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof;

a fifth lens having a negative refractive power;

a sixth lens having a refractive power and a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof; and

a seventh lens having a refractive power, a concave object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof and a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof,

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 plane of the optical imaging system,

the optical imaging system satisfies SD12<SD34, where SD12 is a distance along the optical axis from the image-side surface of the first lens to the object-side surface of the second lens, SD34 is a distance along the optical axis from the image-side surface of the third lens to an object-side surface of the fourth lens, and SD12 and SD34 are expressed in a same unit of measurement, and

the optical imaging system further satisfies 0.05<R1/R6<0.9 and 0.2<R1/R11<1.2, where R1 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of the object-side surface of the first lens, R6 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of the image-side surface of the third lens, and R11 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of the object-side surface of the sixth lens, and R1, R6, and R11 are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

2 . The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies 0.01<R1/R4<1.3, where R4 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of the image-side surface of the second lens, and R1 and R4 are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

3 . The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein

the optical imaging system further satisfies 0.6<(R11+R14)/(2*R1)<3.0, where R14 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of the image-side surface of the seventh lens, and R1, R11, and R14 are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

4 . The optical imaging system of claim 3 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies 0.1<(R11+R14)/(R5+R6)<1.0, where R5 is a radius of curvature on the optical axis of the object-side surface of the third lens, and R5, R6, R11, and R14 are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

5 . The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies 0.1<(1/f1+1/f2+1/f3+1/f4+1/f5+1/f6+1/f7)*f<0.8, where f1 is a focal length of the first lens, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, f3 is a focal length of the third lens, f4 is a focal length of the fourth lens, f5 is a focal length of the fifth lens, f6 is a focal length of the sixth lens, f7 is a focal length of the seventh lens, f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6, f7, and f are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

6 . The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies 0.1<(1/f1+1/f2+1/f3+1/f4+1/f5+1/f6+1/f7)*TTL<1.0, where f1 is a focal length of the first lens, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, f3 is a focal length of the third lens, f4 is a focal length of the fourth lens, f5 is a focal length of the fifth lens, f6 is a focal length of the sixth lens, f7 is a focal length of the seventh lens, TTL is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6, f7, and TTL are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

7 . The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein

the optical imaging system further satisfies 0.2<TD1/D67<0.8, where TD1 is a thickness along the optical axis of the first lens, D67 is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the sixth lens to the image-side surface of the seventh lens, and TD1 and D67 are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

8 . The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies 0.4<ΣTD/TTL<0.7, where ΣTD is a sum of thicknesses along the optical axis of the first to seventh lenses, TTL is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and ΣTD and TTL are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

9 . The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies 0.6<TTL/(2*IMG HT)<0.9, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, IMG HT is an image height on the imaging plane and is equal to one half of a diagonal length of the imaging plane, and TTL and IMG HT are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

10 . The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the optical imaging system further satisfies SD56<SD67, where SD56 is a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the fifth lens to the object-side surface of the sixth lens, SD67 is a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of the sixth lens to the object-side surface of the seventh lens, and SD56 and SD67 are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

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

12 . The optical imaging system of claim 11 , wherein the sixth lens has a positive refractive power.

Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2018-0061412 · May 29, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0106169 · Sep 5, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16424540 · May 29, 2019
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