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Photographic objective

Assignee: Canon Inc
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Filing: 1982-06-11
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Granted: 1984-10-16
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Expires: 2002-06-11
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Abstract

Abstract A photographic objective of small size, having five lens elements of which the 1st counting from the front is of positive power and in the meniscus form convex toward the front, the 2nd is of negative power, the 3rd is of positive power and turns its convex rear surface toward the rear, the 4th is of positive power and the 5th is of negative power and in the meniscus form convex toward the rear. Numerical limits are given to certain design features of these five lens elements so that good correction of aberrations is attained.

Inventors

  • 👤 Yasuhisa Sato

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-09 14:25
CPC Classifications
G; G02; G02B; G02B13/00; G02B13/18; G02B9/00; G02B9/60

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim 97 words
A photographic objective having the following various conditions: having five lens components, in order from front to rear, the 1st lens components being a meniscus lens of positive refractive power convex toward the front, the 2nd lens component being a lens having a negative refractive power, the 3rd lens component being a meniscus lens of positive refractive power convex toward the rear, the 4th lens component being a lens having a positive refractive power, and the 5th lens component being a meniscus lens of negative refractive power convex toward the rear, said objective satisfying the following conditions:
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 97 words
A photographic objective having the following various conditions: having five lens components, in order from front to rear, the 1st lens components being a meniscus lens of positive refractive power convex toward the front, the 2nd lens component being a lens having a negative refractive power, the 3rd lens component being a meniscus lens of positive refractive power convex toward the rear, the 4th lens component being a lens having a positive refractive power, and the 5th lens component being a meniscus lens of negative refractive power convex toward the rear, said objective satisfying the following conditions:
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 83 words
4<f F /f<0.9 3<(r.sub.5 +r.sub.6) / (r.sub.5 -r.sub.6)<9 1.55<(n.sub.3 +n.sub.4) / 2<1.75 wherein f F : the overall focal length of said 1st to said 4th lens components, f: the focal length of the entire lens system, r 5 and r 6 : the radii of curvature of the front and rear lens surfaces of said 3rd lens component respectively, and n 3 and n 4 : the refractive indices of the glasses of the said 3rd and said 4th lens components respectively.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 83 words
4<f F /f<0.9 3<(r.sub.5 +r.sub.6) / (r.sub.5 -r.sub.6)<9 1.55<(n.sub.3 +n.sub.4) / 2<1.75 wherein f F : the overall focal length of said 1st to said 4th lens components, f: the focal length of the entire lens system, r 5 and r 6 : the radii of curvature of the front and rear lens surfaces of said 3rd lens component respectively, and n 3 and n 4 : the refractive indices of the glasses of the said 3rd and said 4th lens components respectively.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 208 words
A photographic objective according to claim 1, wherein the front lens surface of said 5th lens component is formed to an aspheric one, and letting ΔX denote the difference between this aspheric surface and a spherical surface of which the radius of curvature, r9, is contributable to the determination of the focal length, and taking the axial direction as an x-axis, the direction perpendicular to the optical axis as a y-axis, the direction in which the light advances as positive with the intersection of the aspheric surface and the optical axis as an original point, we have ΔX ΔX={(1/r*.sub.9)y.sup.2 }/{1+√1-(y/r*.sub.9).sup.2 }+a.sub.1 y.sup.2 +a.sub.2 y.sup.4 +a.sub.3 y.sup.6 +. . . +b.sub.1 b.sup.3 +b.sub.2 y.sup.5 +. . . -{(1/r.sub.9)y.sup.2 }/{1+√1-(y/r.sub.9).sup.2 } where r9 is the radius of curvature of the paraxial region of the front surface of the 5th lens component, r9* is the radius of curvature of the reference sphericl surface of the equivalent lens component defined by r9=1/[(1/r9*)+2al], ai and bi are the aspheric coefficients of even- and odd-numbered orders respectively, and for the values of ΔX at the heights of (r9)×0.7 and (r9)×0.5 in the y-ordinate which values are denoted by ΔX[0.7r9] and ΔX[0.5r9] respectively, the following conditions are set forth: 5×10.sup.-4 <|ΔX[0.7r.sub.9 ]/f|<5×10.sup.-3 5×10.sup.-5 <|ΔX[0.5r.sub.9 ]/f|<1×10.sup.-3

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