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US 4,786,150 AGranted
Zoom lens with beam splitter
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSadahiko Tsuji
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Abstract
A zoom lens including a plurality of movable lens units for zooming, a diaphragm and a beam splitter for splitting off part of the light beam toward an optical device, characterized in that this beam splitter is arranged in between the frontmost and rearmost movable zoom units.
Claims10
A zoom lens having a front and a rear, comprising:
- a plurality of lens units each movable for zooming along an optical path, one of said lens units being located toward said zoom lens front and another of said lens units being located toward said zoom lens rear;
- light beam splitting means in a fixed location between said one and such other of said lens units for splitting said optical path to provide a further optical path split-off from said optical path;
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- an optical device arranged in said further optical path.
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A zoom lens having a front and rear, comprising:
- beam spliting means for splitting an optical path to provide a further optical path split-off from said optical path;
- a front part on one side of said beam splitting means, said front optical part having at least one movable lens unit;
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- a rear optical part including another movable lens unit on the opposite side of the said beam splitting means and arranged to move simultaneously with said first-mentioned movable lens unit for zooming purposes,
- wherein said front optical part has a magnification of -1 times in the middle of zooming.
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A zoom lens having a front and rear, comprising:
- a front movable lens unit and a rear movable lens unit which move along an optical path for zooming;
- beam splitting means for splitting the optical path to provide a further optical path split-off from said optical path, said beam splitting means being fixed in between said front movable lens unit and said rear movable lens unit;
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- a projection lens arranged in said further optical path to move correspondingly with movement of said front movable lens unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.