Imaging lens

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9851542-B2
Application number	US-201615093759-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2016
Priority date	Apr 8, 2016
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

An imaging lens including a first lens group, a second lens group, and an aperture stop is provided. The first lens group is disposed between an object side and an image side. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the image side. The aperture stop is disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. The imaging lens includes at least three cemented lenses, each of the cemented lenses includes at least one lens having non-zero refractive power, and at least one lens of each of the cemented lenses has an Abbe number greater than 80.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An imaging lens comprising:
a first lens group disposed between an object side and an image side;
a second lens group disposed between the first lens group and the image side;
an aperture stop disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group;
a first optical element and a second optical element which are disposed between the first lens group and the image side; and
a switching unit disposed between the first lens group and the image side, the switching unit connected to the first optical element and the second optical element, the switching unit being configured to switch the first optical element or the second optical element into a light path, wherein the first optical element is an invisible light filter,
wherein the imaging lens comprises at least three cemented lenses, and each of the cemented lenses comprises at least one lens having non-zero refractive power.

2. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein each of the cemented lenses comprises at least two lenses, and at least one lens of each of the cemented lenses has an Abbe number greater than 80.

3. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the aperture stop and any one of the first optical element and the second optical element switched into the light path are arranged along an optical axis of the imaging lens.

4. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens group comprises at least one cemented lens, the second lens group comprises at least two cemented lenses, and at least one of the at least two cemented lenses comprised by the second lens group is a triple cemented lens, wherein the second lens group comprises an aspheric lens.

5. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the first optical element is substantially the same as a thickness of the second optical element, the invisible light filter is an infrared cut-off filter and the second optical element is a light-transmissive element.

6. The imaging lens according claim 1 further comprising a joint disposed between the second lens group and the image side, and an outside diameter of the joint is less than or equal to 14 inches.

7. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the second lens group comprises a cemented lens nearest to the image side among lenses of the second lens group, and a ratio of a total length of the cemented lens along an optical axis of the imaging lens to a total length of the second lens group along the optical axis is greater than 0.5.

8. The imaging lens according to claim 1 , wherein the first lens group comprises at least one lens having an Abbe number less than 20.

9. An imaging lens comprising:
a first lens group disposed between an object side and an image side;
a second lens group disposed between the first lens group and the image side;
an aperture stop disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group;
a first optical element and a second optical element which are disposed between the first lens group and the image side; and
a switching unit connected to the first optical element and the second optical element, the switching unit being configured to switch the first optical element or the second optical element into a light path from the first lens group to the image side, wherein the first optical element is an invisible light filter,
wherein when an incident light having a wavelength of 850 nm passes through the imaging lens to from an image on the image side, a focus shift of the image with respect to green light is less than 0.015 mm.

10. The imaging lens according to claim 9 , wherein when another incident light having a wavelength of 435 nm passes through the imaging lens to form another image on the image side, a lateral color aberration of the another image with respect to light having a wavelength of 587 nm is less than 3 microns.

11. The imaging lens according to claim 9 , wherein the invisible light filter is an infrared cut-off filter, the second optical element is a light-transmissive element and a thickness of the first optical element is substantially the same as a thickness of the second optical element.

12. The imaging lens according to claim 9 , wherein an Abbe number of each lens in the first lens group is greater than 30.

13. The imaging lens according to claim 9 , wherein a thickness of each negative lens in the second lens group is less than 0.8 mm.

14. The imaging lens according to claim 9 , wherein an absolute value of a difference between Abbe numbers of two lenses nearest to the image side among lenses in the second lens group is less than 10.

15. An imaging lens comprising:
a first lens group disposed between an object side and an image side;
a second lens group disposed between the first lens group and the image side; and
an aperture stop disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group,
wherein the imaging lens comprises at least three cemented lenses, each of the cemented lenses comprises at least one lens having non-zero refractive power, and at least one lens of each of the cemented lenses has an Abbe number greater than 80.

16. The imaging lens according to claim 15 , wherein the first lens group comprises at least one cemented lens, the second lens group comprises at least two cemented lenses, and at least one of the at least two cemented lenses comprised by the second lens group is a triple cemented lens, wherein the second lens group comprises an aspheric lens.

17. The imaging lens according claim 15 further comprising a joint disposed between the second lens group and the image side, and an outside diameter of the joint is less than or equal to 14 inches.

18. The imaging lens according to claim 15 , wherein when an incident light having a wavelength of 850 nm passes through the imaging lens to from an image on the image side, a focus shift of the image with respect to green light is less than 0.015 mm.

19. The imaging lens according to claim 15 , wherein when an incident light having a wavelength of 435 nm passes through the imaging lens to form an image on the image side, a lateral color aberration of the image with respect to light having a wavelength of 587 nm is less than 3 microns.

20. The imaging lens according to claim 15 , wherein the number of positive lenses in the second lens group is greater than the number of negative lenses in the second lens group.

21. The imaging lens according to claim 15 , wherein the second lens group comprises at least one positive lens having an Abbe number less than 20.

Assignees

• Young Optics Inc

Inventors

• Huang Wei-Hao
• Wang Kuo-Chuan
• Chiang Bing-Ju

Classifications

• H04N23/55

  Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof · CPC title

• H04N23/69

  Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming · CPC title

• G02B5/208

  for use with infrared or ultraviolet radiation, e.g. for separating visible light from infrared and/or ultraviolet radiation · CPC title

• G02B7/006

  Filter holders · CPC title

• G03B17/14

  interchangeably · CPC title