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US 4,792,216 AGranted
Photographic lens system
AssigneeMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshinobu Kudo
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Abstract
A compact photographic lens system of 4-components in which only the image side surface of the fourth lens component, numbered from the object side, is aspheric and whose radius of curvature decreases in accordance with the increase of the height from the optical axis, and fulfills the following conditions: 0.22<f.sub.3 /f.sub.12 <0.29 1.10f<-f.sub.4 <1.35f 0.71f<r.sub.4 <0.90f 1.0f<-r.sub.6 <1.35.sub.f 0.088f<d.sub.1 <0.11f 0.033f<d.sub.3 <0.050f 1.68<Nd.sub.1 <1.75 1.78<Nd.sub.3 <1.81.
Claims6
A photographic lens system, comprising from the object side to the image side:
- a first lens component of a positive meniscus lens element convex to the object side;
- a second lens component of a bi-concave lens element;
- a third lens component of a bi-convex lens element;
- and
- a fourth lens component of a negative meniscus lens element concave to the object side;
- wherein the object side surface of the fourth lens component is aspheric and whose radius of curvature decreases in accordance with the increase of the height from the optical axis of the lens system, while all of the other surfaces excepting for the object side surface of the fourth lens component are spheric, and wherein the lens system fulfills the following conditions:
- 0.22<f.sub.3 /f.sub.12 <0.29
- 1.10f<-f.sub.4 <1.35f
- 0.78f<r.sub.4 <0.90f
- 0.088f<d.sub.1 <0.11f
- 0.033f<d.sub.3 <0.050f
- 1.68<Nd.sub.1 <1.75
- 1.78<Nd.sub.3 <1.81
- 1.0f<-r.sub.6 <1.28f
- wherein,
- f.sub.3 represents the focal length of the third lens component;
- f.sub.12 represents the compound focal length of the first and second lens components;
- f.sub.4 represents the focal length of the fourth lens component;
- r.sub.4 represents the radius of curvature of the image side surface of the second lens component;
- r.sub.6 represents the radius of curvature of the image side surface of the third lens component;
- d.sub.1 represents the axial thickness of the first lens component;
- d.sub.3 represent the axial thickness of the third lens component;
- Nd.sub.1 represents the refractive index of the first lens component;
- Nd.sub.3 represents the refractive index of the third lens component;
- and
- f represent the focal length of the whole lens system.
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A photographic lens system comprising the following design parameters:
- ______________________________________ f = 100 F.sub.No. = 2.88 2w = 64.degree. L = 0.99 ______________________________________ radius of axial refractive Abbe curvature distance index number ______________________________________ r.sub.1 32.70 d.sub.1 9.53 Nd.sub.1 1.71300 .nu.d.sub.1 53.93 r.sub.2 109.57 d.sub.2 2.41 r.sub.3 -166.82 d.sub.3 3.60 Nd.sub.2 1.80518 .nu.d.sub.2 25.43 r.sub.4 78.48 d.sub.4 8.98 r.sub.5 119.19 d.sub.5 5.61 Nd.sub.3 1.80500 .nu.d.sub.3 40.97 r.sub.6 -119.19 d.sub.6 22.46 r.sub.7 -19.24 d.sub.7 3.46 Nd.sub.4 1.49140 .nu.d.sub.4 57.82 r.sub.8 * -29.64 ______________________________________ a = 0.0 b = 0.5290 .times. 10.sup.-6 c = -0.2011 .times. 10.sup.-7 d = 0.8153 .times. 10.sup.-10 e = -0.2368 .times. 10.sup.-12 f = 0.3507 .times. 10.sup.-15 g = 0.2564 .times. 10.sup.-18 ______________________________________
- wherein, aspheric coefficients a, b, c, d, e, f and g are defined by the following equation;
- ##EQU2## wherein, r.sub.i represents the paraxial radius of curvature, of the basic spheric surface, X represents the coordinate along the optical surface measured from the top of the basic surface, and Y represents the coordinate perpendicular to the optical axis measured from the optical axis.
A photographic lens system, comprising from the object side to the image side:
- a first lens component of a positive meniscus lens element, convex to the object side;
- a second lens component of a bi-concave lens element;
- a third lens component of a bi-convex lens element;
- and
- a fourth lens component of a negative meniscus lens element, concave to the object side, wherein the object side surface of the fourth lens component is aspheric whereby its radius of curvature decreases in accordance with an increase of distance from the optical axis of the lens system, while all of the other surfaces excepting for the object side surface of the fourth lens component are spheric, and wherein the lens system fulfills the following conditions:
- 1. 10f<-f.sub.4 <1.35f
- 0.78f<r.sub.4 <0.90f
- 0.088f<d.sub.1 <0.11f
- 1.78<Nd.sub.3 <1.81
- wherein,
- f.sub.4 represents the focal length of the fourth lens component;
- r.sub.4 represents the radius of curvature of the image side surface of the second lens component;
- d.sub.1 represents the axial thickness of the first lens component;
- Nd.sub.3 represents the refractive index of the third lens component;
- and
- f represents the focal length of the whole lens system.
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A photographic lens system, comprising from the object side to the image side:
- a first lens component of a position meniscus lens element, convex to the object side;
- a second lens component of a bi-concave lens element;
- a third lens component of bi-convex lens element, and
- a fourth lens component of a negative meniscus lens element, concave to tee object side, wherein the object side surface of the fourth lens component is aspheric whereby its radius of curvature decreases in accordance with an increase of distance from the optical axis of the lens system, while all of the other surfaces excepting for the object side surface of the fourth lens component are spheric, and wherein the lens system fulfills the following conditions:
- 1.10f<-f.sub.4 <1.35f
- 1.0f<-r.sub.6 <1.28f
- 0.088f<d.sub.1 <0.11f
- 1.78<Nd.sub.3 <1.81
- wherein,
- f.sub.4 represents the focal length of the fourth lens component;
- r.sub.6 represents the radius of curvature of the image side surface of the third lens component;
- d.sub.1 represents the axial thickness of the first lens component;
- Nd.sub.3 represents the refractive index of the third lens component;
- and
- f represents the focal length of the whole lens system.
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A photographic lens system, comprising from the object side to the image side:
- a first lens component of a positive meniscus lens element convex to the object side;
- a second lens component of a bi-concave lens element;
- a third lens component of a bi-convex lens element;
- and
- a fourth lens component of a negative meniscus lens element concave to the object side;
- wherein the object side surface of the fourth lens component is aspheric whose radius of curvature decrease in accordance with the increase of the height from the optical axis of the lens system, while all of the other surfaces excepting for the object side surface of the fourth lens component are spheric, and wherein the lens fulfills the following conditions:
- 0.22<f.sub.3 /f.sub.12 <0.29
- 1.10f<-f.sub.4 <1.35f
- 0.71f<r.sub.4 <0.90f
- 1.0f<-r.sub.6 <1.35f
- 0.088f<d.sub.1 <0.11f
- 0.033f<d.sub.3 <0.050f
- 1.68f<Nd.sub.1 <1.75
- 1.78<Nd.sub.3 <1.81
- r.sub.5 =.vertline.r.sub.6 .vertline.
- wherein,
- f.sub.3 represents the focal length of the third lens component;
- f.sub.12 repeesents the compound focal length of the first and second lens components;
- f.sub.4 represents the focal length of the fourth lens component;
- r.sub.4 represents the radius of curvature of the image side surface of the second lens component;
- r.sub.5 represents the radius of curvature of the object side surface of the third lens component;
- r.sub.6 represents the radius of curvature of the image side surface of the third lens component;
- d.sub.1 represents the axial thickness of the first lens component;
- d.sub.3 represents the axial thickness of the third lens component;
- Nd.sub.1 represents the refractive index of the first lens component;
- Nd.sub.3 represents the refractive index of the third lens component;
- and
- f represents the focal length of the whole lens system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.