# US 12,000,994 B2 · Optical imaging lens > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,000,994 B2 - Document ID: US12000994B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/150,200 - Filed: 2023-01-05 - Published: 2023-07-20 - Granted: 2024-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2017-12-29 - Assignees: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Jia-Sin Jhang; Yanxuan Yin; Lihua Lei - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12000994B2 ## CPC - G02B 13/0045: {having five or more lenses} - G02B 1/041: {Lenses} - G02B 9/64: having more than six components - G02B: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS ## Abstract An optical imaging lens includes a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh and an eighth lens elements from an object side to an image side in order along an optical axis. The optical imaging lens satisfies: EFL/(G45+T5)≤8.500, wherein EFL is an effective focal length of the optical imaging lens, G45 is an air gap from the fourth lens element to the fifth lens element along the optical axis, and T5 is a thickness of the fifth lens element along the optical axis. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An optical imaging lens, comprising a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element, and an eighth lens element sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, each of the first lens element to the eighth lens element comprising an object-side surface facing toward the object side and allowing imaging rays to pass through and an image-side surface facing toward the image side and allowing the imaging rays to pass through, wherein: the first lens element has positive refracting power; the second lens element has positive refracting power; the third lens element has negative refracting power; the fifth lens element has positive refracting power; an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the sixth lens element is convex; the seventh lens element has positive refracting power, and an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the seventh lens element is convex; and the lens elements of the optical imaging lens are only the eight lens elements describe above; wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: EFL/(G45+T5)≤8.500, wherein EFL is an effective focal length of the optical imaging lens, G45 is an air gap from the fourth lens element to the fifth lens element along the optical axis, and T5 is a thickness of the fifth lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (T4+T6)/G45≤6.000, wherein T4 is a thickness of the fourth lens element along the optical axis, and T6 is a thickness of the sixth lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: AAG/(G12+G23+G67)≤5.000, wherein AAG is a sum of seven air gaps from the first lens element to the eighth lens element along the optical axis, G12 is an air gap from the first lens element to the second lens element along the optical axis, G23 is an air gap from the second lens element to the third lens element along the optical axis, and G67 is an air gap from the sixth lens element to the seventh lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (T5+T6)/T3≤3.100, wherein T3 is a thickness of the third lens element along the optical axis, and T6 is a thickness of the sixth lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: AAG/(G45+T5+G67)≤2.200, wherein AAG is a sum of seven air gaps from the first lens element to the eighth lens element along the optical axis, and G67 is an air gap from the sixth lens element to the seventh lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: ALT/(T4+G45)≤4.800, wherein ALT is a sum of thicknesses of the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, the fifth lens element, the sixth lens element, the seventh lens element, and the eighth lens element along the optical axis, and T4 is a thickness of the fourth lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (T4+G45+T5)/(G56+T6)≥2.000, wherein T4 is a thickness of the fourth lens element along the optical axis, T6 is a thickness of the sixth lens element along the optical axis, and G56 is an air gap from the fifth lens element to the sixth lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 8 An optical imaging lens, comprising a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element, and an eighth lens element sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, each of the first lens element to the eighth lens element comprising an object-side surface facing toward the object side and allowing imaging rays to pass through and an image-side surface facing toward the image side and allowing the imaging rays to pass through, wherein: a periphery region of the image-side surface of the first lens element is concave; an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is concave; the sixth lens element has negative refracting power; an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave; the eighth lens element has negative refracting power, and a periphery region of the object-side surface of the eighth lens element is concave; and the lens elements of the optical imaging lens are only the eight lens elements describe above; wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: EFL/(G45+T5)≤8.500 and (T4+T6)/G45≤6.000, wherein EFL is an effective focal length of the optical imaging lens, G45 is an air gap from the fourth lens element to the fifth lens element along the optical axis, T4 is a thickness of the fourth lens element along the optical axis, T5 is a thickness of the fifth lens element along the optical axis, and T6 is a thickness of the sixth lens element along the optical axis, wherein when a surface of the lens element has at least one transition point, a region of the surface from a central point to a nearest transition point is defined as the optical axis region, and a region located radially outside of a farthest transition point from the optical axis to an optical boundary of the surface is defined as the periphery region, where a tangent to the at least one transition point is perpendicular to the optical axis, the central point is a point of intersection of the surface and the optical axis, and the optical boundary is defined as a point at which a radially outermost marginal ray passing through the surface intersects the surface of the lens element, wherein when the surface of the lens element has no transition point, the optical axis region is defined as a region of 0%-50% of a distance between the optical axis and the optical boundary of the surface, and the periphery region is defined as a region of 50%-100% of the distance between the optical axis and the optical boundary of the surface. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 8, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (G34+G78)/T3≤3.500, wherein G34 is an air gap from the third lens element to the fourth lens element along the optical axis, G78 is an air gap from the seventh lens element to the eighth lens element along the optical axis, and T3 is a thickness of the third lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 8, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: TL/BFL≥3.500, wherein TL is a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens element to the image-side surface of the eighth lens element along the optical axis, and BFL is a distance from the image-side surface of the eighth lens element to an image plane along the optical axis. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 8, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (T1+T2+T4)/(T5+T6)≥2.000, wherein T1 is a thickness of the first lens element along the optical axis, and T2 is a thickness of the second lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 8, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: AAG/(G23+G45)≤5.500, wherein AAG is a sum of seven air gaps from the first lens element to the eighth lens element along the optical axis, and G23 is an air gap from the second lens element to the third lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 8, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (G78+T8)/G67≤6.500, wherein T8 is a thickness of the eighth lens element along the optical axis, G67 is an air gap from the sixth lens element to the seventh lens element along the optical axis, and G78 is an air gap from the seventh lens element to the eighth lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 8, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (G45+T5+G56)/T6≥1.800, wherein G56 is an air gap from the fifth lens element to the sixth lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 15 An optical imaging lens, comprising a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, a seventh lens element, and an eighth lens element sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, each of the first lens element to the eighth lens element comprising an object-side surface facing toward the object side and allowing imaging rays to pass through and an image-side surface facing toward the image side and allowing the imaging rays to pass through, wherein: the first lens element has positive refracting power; an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the sixth lens element is concave; an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave; and the lens elements of the optical imaging lens are only the eight lens elements describe above; wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (T1+T2+T4)/(T5+T6)≥2.000 and EFL/(G45+T5)≤8.500, wherein T1 is a thickness of the first lens element along the optical axis, T2 is a thickness of the second lens element along the optical axis, T4 is a thickness of the fourth lens element along the optical axis, T5 is a thickness of the fifth lens element along the optical axis, T6 is a thickness of the sixth lens element along the optical axis, EFL is an effective focal length of the optical imaging lens, and G45 is an air gap from the fourth lens element to the fifth lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 15, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (T1+T2+T3)/(G23+G34)≥2.700, wherein T3 is a thickness of the third lens element along the optical axis, G23 is an air gap from the second lens element to the third lens element along the optical axis, G34 is an air gap from the third lens element to the fourth lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 15, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (T6+T7+T8)/(G12+G45+G67)≤3.500, wherein T7 is a thickness of the seventh lens element along the optical axis, T8 is a thickness of the eighth lens element along the optical axis, G12 is an air gap from the first lens element to the second lens element along the optical axis, and G67 is an air gap from the sixth lens element to the seventh lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 15, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: (G34+G45)/G78≥1.500, wherein G34 is an air gap from the third lens element to the fourth lens element along the optical axis, and G78 is an air gap from the seventh lens element to the eighth lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 15, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: T6/(G12+G45)≤1.600, wherein G12 is an air gap from the first lens element to the second lens element along the optical axis. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The optical imaging lens as claimed in claim 15, wherein the optical imaging lens satisfies: ALT/(T3+T4)≤4.300, wherein ALT is a sum of thicknesses of the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, the fifth lens element, the sixth lens element, the seventh lens element, and the eighth lens element along the optical axis, and T3 is a thickness of the third lens element along the optical axis.