Optical imaging system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12298478-B2
Application number	US-202418601148-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2024
Priority date	Aug 21, 2017
Publication date	May 13, 2025
Grant date	May 13, 2025

Abstract

An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, and a fourth lens sequentially disposed from an object side toward an image side on an optical axis, and a reflecting member disposed closer to the object side, as compared to the first lens, and having a reflecting surface configured to change a path of light to be incident to the first to fourth lenses. The first to fourth lenses are disposed to be spaced apart from each other by a preset distance along the optical axis, and 1.3<TTL/BFL<3.5, where TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane of an image sensor, and BFL is a distance from an image-side surface of the fourth lens to the imaging plane of the image sensor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An optical imaging system comprising:
a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof;
a second lens having a refractive power, a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, and a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof;
a third lens having a negative refractive power; and
a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region thereof, and a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof,
wherein the first to fourth lenses are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system,
the optical imaging system has a total of four lenses,
0.8<TTL/f<1.5 is satisfied, where TTL is a distance along the optical axis from the object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system,
FOV≤40° is satisfied, where FOV is a field of view of the optical imaging system, and
1.3<TTL/BFL<3.5 is satisfied, where BFL is a distance along the optical axis from the image-side surface of the fourth lens to the imaging plane.

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

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

4. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the third lens has a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region thereof.

5. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the first to fourth lenses are spaced apart from each other by fixed distances along the optical axis.

6. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the first to fourth lenses are made of plastic materials.

7. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the first lens is made of a first plastic material, and
the second lens and the third lens are made of plastic materials having optical characteristics different from optical characteristics of the first plastic material.

8. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein the second and third lenses are made of plastic materials, and
the plastic material of the second lens has optical characteristics different from optical characteristics of the plastic material of the third lens.

9. The optical imaging system of claim 8 , wherein an Abbe number of the second lens is different from an Abbe number of the third lens.

10. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , further comprising a reflecting member disposed between the object side of the optical imaging system and the first lens, and comprising a reflecting surface configured to change a path of light incident on the reflecting member to be incident to the first to fourth lenses.

11. The optical imaging system of claim 1 , wherein 0.9<DF/DC<1.3 is satisfied, where DF is an effective aperture radius of the image-side surface of the fourth lens, and DC is an effective aperture radius of the object-side surface of the first lens.

Assignees

• Samsung Electro Mech

Inventors

• Yoo Ho Sik
• Yang Dong Shin
• Jo Yong Joo
• Seo Sot Eum

Classifications

• G02B9/50

  both + components being meniscus · CPC title

• G02B13/0065

  having a beam-folding prism or mirror · CPC title

• G02B9/56

  all components being simple lenses · CPC title

• G02B13/02

  Telephoto objectives, i.e. systems of the type + - in which the distance from the front vertex to the image plane is less than the equivalent focal length · CPC title

• G02B9/38

  both - components being meniscus · CPC title