Imaging optical system having specified relationship between focal length, abbe number, and partial dispersion ratio, and imaging apparatus having the same

US10168510B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-10168510-B2
Application numberUS-201615154815-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateMay 13, 2016
Priority dateMay 21, 2015
Publication dateJan 1, 2019
Grant dateJan 1, 2019

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A partial lens unit St includes one or more positive lenses that are appropriately set based on a focal length f1 of a first lens unit, a focal length f2 of a second lens unit, an overall lens length L, a focal length f of an imaging optical system of when focused on an infinite-distance object, a focal length fPi of an i-th positive lens in an i-th position, among the positive lenses, counted in order from an object side to an image side, an Abbe number and an anomalous partial dispersion ratio difference νdPi and ΔθgFPi of a material for the i-th positive lens, and the total number n of the positive lenses included in the one or more partial lens units St.

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What is claimed is: 1. An imaging optical system comprising, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit which has a positive refractive power, a second lens unit which has a negative refractive power and moves in an optical axis direction in focusing, a third lens unit which has a positive or a negative refractive power, and an aperture stop arranged in a position closer to the image side than the first lens unit, wherein the third lens unit includes one or more partial lens units which are immovable during focusing and during image blur correction, each having a positive or a negative refractive power, wherein each of the one or more partial lens units includes one or more positive lenses, and wherein the following conditional expressions are satisfied: −2.5< f 1 /f 2 <−1, 3.0< f 2 /( f 1 ×L )<8.0, and - 0.0150 < ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ ⁢ Δ ⁢ ⁢ θ gFPi × f f Pi × v dPi < - 0.0040 , where a focal length of the first lens unit is f 1 , a focal length of the second lens unit is f 2 , an overall lens length is L, a focal length of the imaging optical system when focused on an infinite-distance object is f, a focal length of an i-th positive lens in an i-th position, among all of the one or more positive lenses, counted in order from the object side to the image side is f Pi , an Abbe number and an anomalous partial dispersion ratio difference of a material for the i-th positive lens are ν dPi and Δθ gFPi , respectively, and a total number of the one or more positive lenses included in the one or more partial lens units is n. 2. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , wherein a conditional expression: −0.014×ν dP +2.16< N dP <−0.014×ν dP +2.52 is satisfied, where a refractive index of a material for the one or more positive lenses included in the partial lens units is N d , and an Abbe number of the material is ν dP . 3. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , wherein a conditional expression: 1.45< N dP p< 1.76 is satisfied, where a refractive index of a material for the one or more positive lenses included in the partial lens units is N dP . 4. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , wherein a conditional expression: −15.0< f 2 /( f 1 ×f 3 )<−4.0 is satisfied, where a focal length of the third lens unit is f 3 . 5. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , wherein a conditional expression: 2.0< f 2 /( f 12 ×L )<10.0 is satisfied, where a combined focal length of the first lens unit and the second lens unit when the optical system is focused on an infinite-distance object is f 12 . 6. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the partial lens units includes one or more negative lenses, and satisfies a conditional expression: 0.10 < ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ ⁢ Δ ⁢ ⁢ θ gFPi × f f Pi × v dPi ∑ j = 1 m ⁢ ⁢ Δ ⁢ ⁢ θ gFNj × f f Nj × v dNj × 2.00 , where a focal length of a j-th negative lens in a j-th position, among the one or more negative lenses, counted in order from the object side to the image side is f Nj , a Abbe number and an anomalous partial dispersion ratio difference of a material for the j-th negative lens are ν dPj and Δθ gFPj , respectively, and a total number of the one or more negative lenses included in the one or more partial lens units is m. 7. The imaging optical system according to claim 1 , wherein the third lens unit includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first partial lens unit, a second partial lens unit, and a third partial lens unit, and wherein the first partial lens unit and the third partial lens unit are immovable during focusing and during image blur correction, and the second partial lens unit moves in a direction having a direction component which is perpendicular to the optical axis in image blur correction. 8. An imaging ap

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A partial lens unit St includes one or more positive lenses that are appropriately set based on a focal length f1 of a first lens unit, a focal length f2 of a second lens unit, an overall lens length L, a focal length f of an imaging optical system of when focused on an infinite-distance object, a focal length fPi of an i-th positive lens in an i-th position, among the positive lenses, counted …
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Primary CPC classification G02B13/02. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
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