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Zoom lens system

US6101045A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 22, 1997
Grant dateAug 8, 2000
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Expiry dateSep 22, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B15/143103
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A zoom lens system has from an object side a first lens group of a positive refractive power, a second lens group of a positive refractive power and a third lens group of a negative refractive power. The second lens group has from the object side a lens unit and a positive lens element convex to the object side. Focusing for a close object is performed by moving the lens unit toward the object side. In the zoom lens, the following condition is fulfilled: ##EQU1## where r1 is a radius of curvature of an object side surface of the positive lens element and r2 is a radius of curvature of an image side surface of the positive lens element.

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