IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,541,081
Granted Patent B2
US 12,541,081 · App. 18/532,974 · Granted Feb 3, 2026

Photographing lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device

Inventors: Po-Lun Hsu (Taichung, TW); Wei-Yu Chen (Taichung, TW); Kuan-Ting Yeh (Taichung, TW); Ssu-Hsin Liu (Taichung, TW)
Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
G02B13/0045G02B9/62G02B13/002
View Patent ↗
Loading inventors, assignments & file history…
Monitor This Case
Get email alerts when status or documents change.
Order Certified Copies
Most orders are placed with the USPTO same day — all within 24 business hours.
Order via The Patent Place →
Pre-filled with this patent's details
Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,541,081
App. No.
18/532,974
Granted
Feb 3, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A photographing lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth and a sixth lens elements. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the object-side surface has at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof. The third lens element has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface has at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.

Claims (29)

1 . A photographing lens assembly comprising six lens elements, the six lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element, and each of the six lens elements having an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side;

wherein the first lens element has negative refractive power, the third lens element has positive refractive power, the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof, the object-side surface of the fifth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof, the object-side surface of the sixth lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof, an absolute value of a curvature radius of the image-side surface of the fifth lens element is smaller than an absolute value of a curvature radius of the object-side surface of the fourth lens element, and an axial distance between the third lens element and the fourth lens element is smaller than a central thickness of the fifth lens element;

wherein a curvature radius of the object-side surface of the first lens element is R1, a curvature radius of the image-side surface of the first lens element is R2, a focal length of the photographing lens assembly is f, a focal length of the first lens element is f1, a focal length of the second lens element is f2, a focal length of the sixth lens element is f6, a maximum field of view of the photographing lens assembly is FOV, a maximum effective radius of the object-side surface of the first lens element is Y1R1, a maximum effective radius of the image-side surface of the sixth lens element is Y6R2, and the following conditions are satisfied:

| R 1 /R 2|<5.0;

| f/f 21+| f/f 6|<| f/f 1|;

100 degrees<FOV<200 degrees; and

0.60<Y1R1/Y6R2<1.0.

2 . The photographing lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the fourth lens element has positive refractive power, and the fifth lens element has negative refractive power;

wherein an f-number of the photographing lens assembly is FNo, and the following condition is satisfied:

1.25<FNo<3.0.

3 . The photographing lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the image-side surface of the first lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof, the image-side surface of the third lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof, and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof.

4 . The photographing lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element has an inflection point.

5 . The photographing lens assembly of claim 1 , further comprising an aperture stop disposed between the second lens element and the third lens element;

wherein a focal length of the fourth lens element is f4, a focal length of the fifth lens element is f5, and the following condition is satisfied:

| f 5/ f 4|<1.50.

6 . The photographing lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the focal length of the photographing lens assembly is f, the focal length of the first lens element is f1, the focal length of the second lens element is f2, a focal length of the fourth lens element is f4, the focal length of the sixth lens element is f6, and the following conditions are satisfied:

| f 1/ f 6|<1.0; and

| f/f 2| +|f/f 6|<| f/f 4|.

7 . The photographing lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein the curvature radius of the object-side surface of the first lens element and a curvature radius of the object-side surface of the second lens element have different signs;

wherein the focal length of the photographing lens assembly is f, the focal length of the second lens element is f2, a focal length of the third lens element is f3, the focal length of the sixth lens element is f6, and the following condition is satisfied:

| f/f 2| +|f/f 6|<| f/f 3|.

8 . The photographing lens assembly of claim 1 , wherein a central thickness of the third lens element is smaller than a central thickness of the sixth lens element;

wherein a curvature radius of the object-side surface of the third lens element is R5, a curvature radius of the image-side surface of the third lens element is R6, and the following condition is satisfied:

0.25<( R 5+ R 6)/( R 5− R 6)<1.50.

9 . An image capturing unit comprising:

the photographing lens assembly of claim 1 ; and

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

10 . An electronic device comprising:

the image capturing unit of claim 9 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 14, 2023
From: HSU, PO-LUN; CHEN, WEI-YU; YEH, KUAN-TING; LIU, SSU-HSIN
To: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066017/0873 →
Priority Claims (1)
TW 106112689 · Apr 14, 2017 · national
Continuity (4)
Continuation 17721258 · Apr 14, 2022
Continuation 16838843 · Apr 2, 2020
Division 15796276 · Oct 27, 2017
Related Publication 20240118522A1 · Apr 11, 2024
References Cited (104)
US 3972592A · Ruben · 1976 [cited by applicant]
US 4183624A · Rogers et al. · 1980 [cited by applicant]
US 4764001A · Yokota · 1988 [cited by applicant]
US 4806001A · Okabe et al. · 1989 [cited by applicant]
US 4993814A · Hata · 1991 [cited by applicant]
US 5200861A · Moskovich · 1993 [cited by applicant]
US 5371628A · Shimoda et al. · 1994 [cited by applicant]
US 5448319A · Uzawa · 1995 [cited by applicant]
US 5900988A · Ohshita · 1999 [cited by applicant]
US 6124987A · Kayanuma et al. · 2000 [cited by applicant]
US 6351337B1 · Tanaka · 2002 [cited by applicant]
US 7924510B2 · Kobayashi · 2011 [cited by applicant]
US 8385006B2 · Tsai et al. · 2013 [cited by applicant]
US 8441746B2 · Hsieh et al. · 2013 [cited by applicant]
US 9103962B2 · Liao et al. · 2015 [cited by applicant]
US 9128264B2 · Huang · 2015 [cited by applicant]
US 9140888B2 · Fujii · 2015 [cited by applicant]
US 9158094B1 · Chen · 2015 [cited by examiner]
US 9164258B1 · Chen et al. · 2015 [cited by applicant]
US 9176300B2 · Chen et al. · 2015 [cited by applicant]
US 9316811B2 · Chen · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 9411131B2 · Tang et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 9477064B1 · Chen et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 9602731B2 · Lin et al. · 2017 [cited by applicant]
US 9606327B2 · Lin et al. · 2017 [cited by applicant]
US 9791670B2 · Lin et al. · 2017 [cited by applicant]
US 9915807B2 · Chang et al. · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 10209493B2 · Kubota et al. · 2019 [cited by applicant]
US 10527826B2 · Sugiyama et al. · 2020 [cited by applicant]
US 10877251B2 · Nakamura · 2020 [cited by examiner]
US 11002945B2 · Kim et al. · 2021 [cited by applicant]
US 20120147479A1 · Hayakawa · 2012 [cited by applicant]
US 20130010375A1 · Chen et al. · 2013 [cited by applicant]
US 20130286484A1 · Baba · 2013 [cited by applicant]
US 20140029115A1 · Liao et al. · 2014 [cited by applicant]
US 20150098135A1 · Chung et al. · 2015 [cited by applicant]
US 20150138431A1 · Shin et al. · 2015 [cited by applicant]
US 20150301312A1 · Chen et al. · 2015 [cited by applicant]
US 20150301315A1 · Chen et al. · 2015 [cited by applicant]
US 20150338614A1 · Tang et al. · 2015 [cited by applicant]
US 20160033745A1 · Chen et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160033746A1 · Chen et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160124184A1 · Tang et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160124185A1 · Tang et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160124186A1 · Tang et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160124187A1 · Chen et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160131870A1 · Tang et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160131871A1 · Tang et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160223796A1 · Lee · 2016 [cited by examiner]
US 20160223797A1 · Zhao · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160252709A1 · Lin et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160341928A1 · Liu et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160341933A1 · Liu et al. · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20160377847A1 · Chen · 2016 [cited by applicant]
US 20170160519A1 · Katsuragi · 2017 [cited by applicant]
US 20170160522A1 · Lin et al. · 2017 [cited by applicant]
US 20170184815A1 · Wang et al. · 2017 [cited by applicant]
US 20170269334A1 · Usui et al. · 2017 [cited by applicant]
US 20170269335A1 · Lai et al. · 2017 [cited by applicant]
US 20170269336A1 · Lai et al. · 2017 [cited by applicant]
US 20180011294A1 · Lai et al. · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180056869A1 · Nagano · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180074290A1 · Chang et al. · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180074291A1 · Chang et al. · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180088301A1 · Otomo et al. · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180095237A1 · Kanzaki · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180188494A1 · Chang et al. · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180188495A1 · Chang et al. · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180213151A1 · Joujiki et al. · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180231741A1 · Dai · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180231749A1 · Namii et al. · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20180335613A1 · Nakamura et al. · 2018 [cited by applicant]
US 20190064485A1 · Arita · 2019 [cited by applicant]
US 20190331900A1 · Yao et al. · 2019 [cited by applicant]
US 20200041761A1 · Seo et al. · 2020 [cited by applicant]
US 20240255737A1 · You · 2024 [cited by examiner]
CN 203606551U · 2014 [cited by applicant]
CN 204613496U · 2015 [cited by applicant]
CN 105093497A · 2015 [cited by applicant]
CN 205539671U · 2016 [cited by applicant]
CN 205720846U · 2016 [cited by applicant]
CN 106324804A · 2017 [cited by applicant]
CN 106443969A · 2017 [cited by applicant]
CN 106443970A · 2017 [cited by applicant]
CN 106547070A · 2017 [cited by applicant]
CN 106569323A · 2017 [cited by applicant]
CN 107065126A · 2017 [cited by applicant]
CN 108535834A · 2018 [cited by applicant]
JP H07128592A · 1995 [cited by applicant]
JP 2000009997A · 2000 [cited by applicant]
JP 2001066523A · 2001 [cited by applicant]
JP 2002131631A · 2002 [cited by applicant]
JP 2007279632A · 2007 [cited by applicant]
JP 2008287045A · 2008 [cited by applicant]
JP 2010009028A · 2010 [cited by applicant]
JP 2016188895A · 2016 [cited by applicant]
JP 2018120125A · 2018 [cited by applicant]
TW M527550U · 2016 [cited by applicant]
WO 2011152099A1 · 2011 [cited by applicant]
WO 2012105181A1 · 2012 [cited by applicant]
WO 2013125248A1 · 2013 [cited by applicant]
WO 2014192567A1 · 2014 [cited by applicant]
WO 2018010245A1 · 2018 [cited by applicant]
WO 2018080100A1 · 2018 [cited by applicant]