IP Library Granted Patent US 10,018,812
Granted Patent B2
US 10,018,812 · App. 15/459,702 · Granted Jul 10, 2018

Imaging lens and imaging device

Inventors: Masaki Yamazaki (Osaka, JP); Takashi Sugiyama (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
G02B13/18G02B9/34G02B13/006
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Patent No.
US 10,018,812
App. No.
15/459,702
Granted
Jul 10, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging lens is provided with: a first lens with negative power; a second lens with negative power; a third lens with positive power; and a fourth lens with positive power. The cemented fourth lens is formed from an object side lens with negative power and an image side lens with positive power. The thickness of a resin adhesive layer that bonds the object side lens and the image side lens is 20 μm or greater on the optical axis, and when Sg1H is the amount of sag in the image side lens surface of the object side lens and Sg2H is the amount of sag in the object side lens surface of the image side lens. The bonding operation is easy without damage occurring to the cemented surfaces, with a design that takes into account thickness of the resin adhesive layer; therefore various forms of aberration can be corrected.

Claims (25)

1. A cemented lens comprising:

a negative lens; and

a positive lens,

the negative lens and the positive lens being cemented together with an adhesive layer,

wherein a first cemented surface of the negative lens adjacent the adhesive layer and a second cemented surface of the positive lens adjacent the adhesive layer have different aspheric shapes configured to correct chromatic aberration, and

the following conditional expression (A) is satisfied between sag Sg1H in the first cemented surface at height H in an effective diameter of the first cemented surface in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis, and sag Sg2H in the second cemented surface at the height H:

Sg 1 H<Sg 2 H   (A).

2. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein the cemented lens has positive power.

3. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein one of the first cemented surface and the second cemented surface is a concave surface and another is a convex surface.

4. The cemented lens according to claim 3 , wherein the first cemented surface is a concave surface and the second cemented surface is a convex surface.

5. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein both surfaces of at least one of the negative lens and the positive lens are aspheric in shape.

6. The cemented lens according to claim 5 , wherein both surfaces of both of the negative lens and the positive lens are aspheric in shape.

7. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein the negative lens has a concave surface and a convex surface, and the positive lens has a convex surface and a convex surface.

8. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein the negative lens is lower than the positive lens in Abbe number.

9. The cemented lens according to claim 8 , wherein the negative lens has an Abbe number of 31 or less, and the positive lens has an Abbe number of 40 or greater.

10. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein the following conditional expression (B) is satisfied:

20 μm≤ D   (B)

where D represents a thickness of the adhesive layer along the optical axis.

11. The cemented lens according to claim 1 , wherein the following conditional expression (C) is satisfied:

D≤ 100 μm  (C)

where D represents a thickness of the adhesive layer along the optical axis.

12. An imaging lens characterized in that the imaging lens equipped with the cemented lens as claimed in claim 1 .

13. An imaging device comprising:

the imaging lens as claimed in claim 12 ; and

an image pick-up device having a sensor surface disposed on an image-forming surface of the imaging lens.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 3, 2021
From: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058666/0407 →
MERGER Recorded Nov 29, 2021
From: MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058255/0579 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 25, 2018
From: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045142/0208 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-076319 · Mar 29, 2012 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 15139646 · Apr 27, 2016
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