Optical image capturing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10429623-B2
Application number	US-201615375854-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2016
Priority date	Jul 21, 2016
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

A four-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An optical image capturing system, from an object side to an image side, comprising:
a first lens element with refractive power;
a second lens element with refractive power;
a third lens element with refractive power;
a fourth lens element with refractive power;
a first image plane, which is an image plane specifically for visible light and perpendicular to an optical axis; a through-focus modulation transfer rate (value of MTF) at a first spatial frequency having a maximum value at central field of view of the first image plane; and
a second image plane, which is an image plane specifically for infrared light and perpendicular to the optical axis; the through-focus modulation transfer rate (value of MTF) at the first spatial frequency having a maximum value at central of field of view of the second image plane,
wherein the optical image capturing system comprises only four lens elements with refractive powers, at least one of the four lens elements has positive refractive power; focal lengths of the four lens elements are respectively f1, f2, f3 and f4; a focal length of the optical image capturing system is f, and an entrance pupil diameter of the optical image capturing system is HEP; a distance on the optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens element to the first image plane is HOS, a distance on the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens element to an image-side surface of the fourth lens element is InTL, half of a maximum viewable angle of the optical image capturing system is denoted by HAF; the optical image capturing system has a maximum image height HOT on the first image plane perpendicular to the optical axis; a maximum effective diameter of the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is denoted by PhiA4; a distance on the optical axis between the first image plane and the second image plane is denoted by FS; thicknesses of the first to fourth lens elements at height of ½ HEP paralleling the optical axis are respectively ETP1, ETP2, ETP3 and ETP4; a sum of ETP1 to ETP4 described above is SETP; central thicknesses of the first to fourth lens elements on the optical axis are respectively TP1, TP2, TP3 and TP4; a sum of TP1 to TP4 described above is STP; conditions as follows are satisfied: 1≤f/HEP≤10, 0 deg<HAF≤150 deg, 0.5≤SETP/STP<1, 0<PhiA4/InTL≤5 and |FS|≤30 μm.

2. The optical image capturing system of claim 1 , wherein a wavelength of the infrared light ranges from 700 nm to 1300 nm, and the first spatial frequency is denoted by SP1, which satisfies the following condition: SP1≤440 cycles/mm.

3. The optical image capturing system of claim 1 , wherein a horizontal distance paralleling the optical axis from a coordinate point on the object-side surface of the first lens element at height of ½ HEP to the first image plane is ETL; a horizontal distance paralleling the optical axis from the coordinate point on the object-side surface of the first lens element at height of ½ HEP to a coordinate point on the image-side surface of the fourth lens element at height of ½ HEP is EIN; conditions as follows are satisfied: 0.2≤EIN/ETL<1.

4. The optical image capturing system of claim 1 , wherein an image-side surface of the second lens element and an image-side surface of the third lens element on the optical axis are convex surfaces.

5. The optical image capturing system of claim 1 , wherein half of a vertical maximum viewable angle of the optical image capturing system is denoted by VHAF, and the following conditions are satisfied: VHAF≥10 deg, 0<PhiA4/HEP≤4.0, and 0<PhiA4/2HOI≤2.0.

6. The optical image capturing system of claim 1 , wherein the optical image capturing system satisfies the following condition: HOS/HOI≥1.2.

7. The optical image capturing system of claim 1 , wherein a horizontal distance paralleling the optical axis from the coordinate point on the object-side surface of the first lens element at height of ½ HEP to a coordinate point on the image-side surface of the fourth lens element at height of ½ HEP is EIN; and condition as follow is satisfied: 0.3≤SETP/EIN≤1.

8. The optical image capturing system of claim 1 , wherein a horizontal distance paralleling the optical axis from a coordinate point on the image-side surface of the fourth lens element at height of ½ HEP to the first image plane is EBL, a horizontal distance paralleling the optical axis from an axial point on the image-side surface of the fourth lens element to the first image plane is BL, and conditions as follows are satisfied: 0.1≤EBL/BL≤1.5.

9. The optical image capturing system of claim 1 , further comprising an aperture stop; wherein a distance from the aperture stop to the first image plane on the optical axis is InS, which satisfies condition as follows: 0.2≤InS/HOS≤1.1.

10. An optical image capturing system, from an object side to an image side, comprising:
a first lens element with positive refractive power;
a second lens element with refractive power, an image-side surface thereof on the optical axis being a convex surface;
a third lens element with refractive power, an image-side surface thereof on the optical axis being a convex surface;
a fourth lens element with refractive power;
a first image plane, which is an image plane specifically for visible light and perpendicular to an optical axis; a through-focus modulation transfer rate (value of MTF) at a first spatial frequency having a maximum value at central field of view of the first image plane, and the first spatial frequency being 220 cycles/mm;
a second image plane, which is an image plane specifically for infrared light and perpendicular to the optical axis; the through-focus modulation transfer rate (value of MTF) at the first spatial frequency having a maximum value at central of field of view of the second image plane, and the first spatial frequency being 220 cycles/mm; and
a first lens positioning element comprising a lens base,
wherein the lens base is hollow and opaque, and the lens base is disposed with a barrel portion and a base portion that are interconnected; the barrel portion is configured to accommodate the first to fourth lens elements, and the base portion is between the fourth lens element and the first image plane; an outer perimeter of the base portion is longer than an outer perimeter of the barrel portion; a shortest side length of the base portion, which is measured on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis, has a maximum value denoted by PhiD; the optical image capturing system comprises only four lens elements with refractive powers; at least one of the second to fourth lens elements has positive refractive power; focal lengths of the four lens elements are respectively f1, f2, f3 and f4; a focal length of the optical image capturing system is f; an entrance pupil diameter of the optical image capturing system is HEP; a distance on an optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens element to the first image plane is HOS, a distance on the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens element to an image-side surface of the fourth lens element is InTL, half of a maximum viewable angle of the optical image capturing system is denoted by HAF; the optical image capturing system has a maximum image height HOT on the first image plane perpendicular to the optical axis; a maximum effective diameter of the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is denoted by PhiA4; a horizontal distance paralleling the optical axis from a coordinate point on the object-side surface of the first lens element at height of ½ HEP to the first image plane is ETL; a horizontal distance paralleling the optical axis from the coordinate point on the object-side surface of the fi

Assignees

• Ability Opto Electronics Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lai Chien-Hsun
• Liao Kuo-Yu
• Liu yao-wei
• Chang Yeong-Ming

Classifications

• G02B9/58

  arranged - + + - · CPC title

• G02B13/004

  having four lenses · CPC title

• G02B9/34

  having four components only · CPC title

• G02B13/008 Primary

  designed for infrared light · CPC title

• G02B7/04

  with mechanism for focusing or varying magnification · CPC title