# US 7,609,313 B2 · Image pick-up lens, image pick-up unit and mobile terminal

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- Number: US 7,609,313 B2
- Document ID: US7609313B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 11/128,544
- Filed: 2005-05-13
- Published: 2005-12-01
- Granted: 2009-10-27
- Earliest claimed: 2004-05-27
- Assignees: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
- Inventors: Susumu Yamaguchi; Masashi Isono
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7609313B2

## CPC

- H04N 23/55: Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

An image pick-up lens for forming an image of an object on a solid image pick-up element having a rectangular effective pixel area, has a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; and a diaphragm having an aperture. The following conditional expressions are satisfied: 15°<IAD<35° |IAh−(IAD·Yh/YD)|<5° where, YD: a length of ½ of the diagonal length of the rectangular effective pixel area of the solid image pick-up element, Yh: an arbitrary image height of the image pick-up lens (where, Yh<YD), IAD: an angle formed between a chief ray of a light flux forming an image at the image height YD of the image pick-up lens and the optical axis, and IAh: an angle formed between a chief ray of a light flux image forming an image at the image height Yh of the image pick-up lens, and the optical axis.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An image pick-up lens for forming an image of an object on a solid image pick-up element having a rectangular effective pixel area, comprising:
a first lens having a positive refractive power and being a meniscus shape whose convex surface faces to the object side;
a second lens having a positive refractive power and being a meniscus shape whose convex surface faces to the image side;
a third lens having a negative refractive power and being a meniscus shape whose convex surface faces to the image side; and
a diaphragm having an aperture;
wherein the first lens, the diaphragm, the second lens and the third lens are arranged in this order from the object side and each of the first lens, the second lens and the third lens has at least one aspherical surface, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied:
15°<1AD<35°
|IAh−(IAD·Yh/YD)|<5°
where,
YD: a length of ½ of the diagonal length of the rectangular effective pixel area of the solid image pick-up element,
Yh: an arbitrary image height of the image pick-up lens (where, Yh<YD),
IAD: an angle formed between a chief ray of a light flux forming an image at the image height YD of the image pick-up lens and the optical axis, and
IAh: an angle formed between a chief ray of a light flux image forming an image at the image height Yh of the image pick-up lens, and the optical axis.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The image pick-up lens of claim 1, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied:
20<{(ν1+ν2)/2}−ν3<70
where,
∥1: Abbe's number of the first lens,
ν2: Abbe's number of the second lens, and
ν3: Abbe's number of the third lens.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The image pick-up lens of claim 1, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied:
1.0<f23/f<3.0
where,
f23: the composite focal length of the second lens and the third lens, and
f: the focal length of the total system of the image pick-up lenses.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The image pick-up lens of claim 1, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied:
0.15<f2/f1<0.60
where,
f1: a focal length of the first lens, and
f2: a focal length of the second lens.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The image pick-up lens of claim 1, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied:
0.20<r4/{1−N2}·f}}<0.60
where,
r4: a radius of curvature of the image side surface of the second lens,
N2: a refractive index for d-line of the second lens, and
f: a focal length of the image pick-up lens total system.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

An image pick-up unit, comprising:
a solid image pick-up element provided with a photo-electric conversion unit;
the image pick-up lens of claim 1 to form an image of an object on the photo-electric conversion unit of the solid image pick-up element;
a substrate to hold the solid image pick-up element and having an external connection-use terminal for sending and receiving the electric signals; and
a casing formed of a light shielding member and having an aperture through which light comes from the object side;
wherein the solid image pick-up element, the image pick-up lens, the substrate, and the casing are integrally formed in one body and the height the image pick-up unit in the optical axis direction of the image pick-up lens 10 mm or less.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

A mobile terminal, comprising:
a body, and
the image pick-up unit of claim 6.

### Claim 8

An image pick-up unit configured to form an image of an object on a solid image pick-up element, comprising:
an image pickup lens, comprising:
a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex surface facing to the object side;
a second lens having a positive refractive power and being a meniscus shape whose convex surface faces to the image side; and
a third lens having a negative refractive power and being a meniscus shape whose convex surface faces to the image side; and
a diaphragm having an aperture disposed between the first lens and the second lens;
wherein the first lens, the diaphragm, the second lens, and the third lens are arranged in this order from the object side and the three lenses are configured such that the three lenses together satisfy the following conditional expressions:
20<{(ν1+ν2)/2}−ν3<70
1.0<f23/f<3.0
where,
ν1: Abbe's number of the first lens,
ν2: Abbe's number of the second lens,
ν3: Abbe's number of the third lens,
f23: the composite focal length of the second lens and the third lens, and
f: the focal length of the total system of the first, second, and third lenses.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The image pick-up lens of claim 8, wherein the first lens is a meniscus shape whose convex surface faces to the object side.

### Claim 10 (depends on 8)

The image pick-up lens of claim 8, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied:
0.15<f2/f1<0.60
where,
f1: a focal length of the first lens, and
f2: a focal length of the second lens.

### Claim 11 (depends on 8)

The image pick-up lens of claim 8, wherein the following conditional expression is satisfied:
0.20<r4/{1−N2}·f}}<0.60
where,
r4: a radius of curvature of the image side surface of the second lens,
N2: a refractive index for d-line of the second lens, and
f: a focal length of the image pick-up lens total system.

### Claim 12 (depends on 8)

The image pick-up lens of claim 8, wherein each of the first lens, the second lens and the third lens has at least one aspherical surface.

### Claim 13 (depends on 8)

An image pick-up unit, comprising:
a solid image pick-up element provided with a photo-electric conversion unit;
an image pick-up unit according to claim 8 to form an image of an object on the photo-electric conversion unit of the solid image pick-up element;
a substrate to hold the solid image pick-up element and having an external connection-use terminal for sending and receiving the electric signals; and
a casing formed of a light shielding member and having an aperture through which light comes from the object side;
wherein the solid image pick-up element, the image pick-up lens, the substrate, and the casing are integrally formed in one body and the height the image pick-up unit in the optical axis direction of the image pick-up lens 10 mm or less.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

A mobile terminal, comprising:
a body, and
the image pick-up unit of claim 13.

### Claim 15 (depends on 8)

The image pick-up unit according to claim 8, wherein the height of the image pick-up unit in the direction of the optical axis is less than or equal to 10 mm.