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Zooms lens system and electronic image pickup apparatus using the same

US7515354B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 14, 2007
Grant dateApr 7, 2009
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Expiry dateNov 14, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B15/144113
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A zoom lens system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens unit G1 having a positive refracting power, a second lens unit G2 having a negative refracting power, a third lens unit G3 having a positive refracting power, and a fourth lens unit G4 having a positive refracting power, and at the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, a space between the lens units changes, and the first lens unit includes two lenses namely, a negative lens and a positive lens, and satisfies the following conditional expression−0.75<SF1p<−0.1  (1)where,SF1p is defined as SF1p=(R1pf+R1pr)/(R1pf−R1pr), whenR1pf is a paraxial radius of curvature of a surface on the object side, of the positive lens in the first lens unit, andR1pr is a paraxial radius of curvature of a surface on an image side, of the positive lens in the first lens unit.

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