IP Library Granted Patent US 12,601,895
Granted Patent B2
US 12,601,895 · App. 18/196,482 · Granted Apr 14, 2026

Imaging lens system and imaging device

Inventors: Yutaka Makino (Otokuni-gun, JP); Takashi Sugiyama (Otokuni-gun, JP)
Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
G02B13/0035G02B9/12G02B9/60G02B13/0045G02B13/04G02B13/18
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Patent No.
US 12,601,895
App. No.
18/196,482
Granted
Apr 14, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging lens system and an imaging device capable of capturing a long-distance image in a central direction of an optical axis with high resolution and capturing a neighborhood image at a wide angle. An imaging lens system includes, in order from an object side: a first lens group including at least a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens; an aperture stop (STOP); and a second lens group including two or more lens and having a positive combined power, an image side of the first lens has a concave surface, a combined focal length of the first lens and the second lens is negative, the third lens is a lens having a positive power, an object side of the first lens has an aspherical surface, and an incident-side surface (object side) of the first lens has an inflection point.

Claims (33)

1 . An imaging lens system comprising, in order from an object side:

a front group including a first lens, and a second lens;

an aperture stop; and

a rear group including a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens a sixth lens and a seventh lens and having a positive combined power, wherein

an image side of the first lens has a concave surface facing an image side of the imaging lens system,

a combined power of the first lens and the second lens is negative,

the third lens has a positive power,

an object side of the first lens has an aspherical surface,

an incident-side surface of the first lens, which is on the object side, has an inflection point,

the second lens has a negative power, and

the imaging lens system satisfies

0.31≤ L 1 H/L 1 R≤ 0.65, where

L1H is a distance from an optical axis to the inflection point in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the first lens, and

L1R is an effective radius of the incident-side surface of the first lens.

2 . The imaging lens system according to claim 1 , wherein

the first lens is closest to an object side in the front group, and

the imaging lens system satisfies

0.03≤ L 1 SAG/L 1 R , where

L1SAG is sag amount at the inflection point on the incident-side surface of the first lens.

3 . The imaging lens system according to claim 1 , wherein the imaging lens system satisfies

L 1 N≥ 1.75

where L1N is a refractive index of the first lens at a d-line.

4 . The imaging lens system according to claim 1 , wherein the imaging lens system has an angle of view of 80 degrees or more.

5 . The imaging lens system according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens is a concave meniscus lens having a convex shape on the object side facing the object side of the imaging lens system.

6 . The imaging lens system according to claim 1 , wherein the imaging lens system satisfies

L 1 V≥ 38

where L1V is an Abbe number of the first lens at a d-line.

7 . The imaging lens system according to claim 1 , wherein an image side of the seventh lens in the rear group is an aspherical surface having a concave shape facing the object side of the imaging lens system.

8 . The imaging lens system according to claim 1 , wherein a lens closest to an object side in the rear group is the third lens and has a positive power.

9 . The imaging lens system according to claim 1 , wherein the rear group includes a cemented lens.

10 . An imaging device comprising:

an imaging lens system according to claim 1 ; and

an imaging element for capturing an image formed in the imaging lens system.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-217376 · Nov 10, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16760624
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