IP Library Granted Patent US 12,669,685
Granted Patent B2
US 12,669,685 · App. 18/763,174 · Granted Jun 30, 2026

Imaging lens system

Inventors: Jae Hyuk Huh (Suwon-si, KR); You Jin Jeong (Suwon-si, KR); Byung Hyun Kim (Suwon-si, KR); So Mi Yang (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
G02B13/0065G02B9/60G02B13/0045
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,669,685
App. No.
18/763,174
Filed
Jul 3, 2024
Granted
Jun 30, 2026
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2872
USPC
348/335
Abstract

An imaging lens system includes a lens group including a plurality of lenses, and an optical path folding member disposed on an image side of the lens group, wherein −1.2<fR/PL<−0.40, where fR is a focal length of a rearmost lens disposed closest to an imaging plane in the lens group, and PL is a distance from an incident surface of the optical path folding member to an exit surface of the optical path folding member.

Claims (23)

1 . An imaging lens system comprising:

a first lens having a positive refractive power;

a second lens having a refractive power;

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

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

an optical path folding member disposed on an image side of the fourth lens and comprising four or more reflective surfaces,

wherein the first to fourth lenses are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the imaging lens system from an object side of the imaging lens system toward an imaging plane of the imaging lens system,

the imaging lens system has a total number of four or five lenses having a refractive power,

the imaging lens system satisfies 0.7<BFL/TTL<0.9, where BFL is a distance along the optical axis from an image-side surface of a rearmost lens of the imaging lens system disposed closest to the imaging plane to the imaging plane, and TTL is a distance along the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane,

the imaging lens system satisfies −1.2<fR/PL<−0.40 or 1.52<(TTL+ImgHT)/PL<2.32, where fR is a focal length of the rearmost lens, ImgHT is a height of the imaging plane, and PL is a distance along the optical axis from an incident surface of the optical path folding member to an exit surface of the optical path folding member, and

an absolute value of a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the second lens at the optical axis is greater than an absolute value of a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the third lens at the optical axis.

2 . The imaging lens system of claim 1 , wherein the object-side surface of the first lens is convex in a paraxial region thereof.

3 . The imaging lens system of claim 1 , wherein the second lens has a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof.

4 . The imaging lens system of claim 1 , wherein the image-side surface of the second lens is concave in a paraxial region thereof.

5 . The imaging lens system of claim 1 , wherein the image-side surface of the third lens is concave in a paraxial region thereof.

6 . The imaging lens system of claim 1 , wherein the fourth lens has a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof.

7 . The imaging lens system of claim 1 , wherein 10 mm<f, where f is a focal length of the imaging lens system.

8 . The imaging lens system of claim 1 , wherein 1.05<TTL/f, where f is a focal length of the imaging lens system.

9 . The imaging lens system of claim 1 , wherein 0.80<f/PL<2.0, where f is a focal length of the imaging lens system.

10 . The imaging lens system of claim 1 , wherein 0.10<TLG/PL<0.40, where TLG is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to the image-side surface of the rearmost lens.

11 . An electronic device comprising:

one or more camera modules,

wherein at least one of the one or more camera modules comprises the imaging lens system of claim 1 .

Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2022-0159542 · Nov 24, 2022 · national
KR 10-2023-0036440 · Mar 21, 2023 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 18361662 · Jul 28, 2023
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