Image pickup lens system

• US 20020075573A1
• Filed: 06/06/2001
• Published: 06/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Enplas Corporation
• Original Assignee: Enplas Corporation
• Inventors: Saito, Tomohiro, Kaneko, Isamu
• Granted Patent: US 6,560,040 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/739
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/0025 having one lens only
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 7/022 lens and mount having complementary engagement means, e.g. screw/thread

Abstract

An image pickup lens system according to the present invention includes a lens body having a positive power and a diaphragm which is unified with the lens body at a location between the first face and the second face of the lens body and of which inner cylindrical surface is disposed at a location of the inside of the lens body. Thus, the numbers of the elements of the image pickup lens system are decreased and the image pickup lens system can be produced accurately. Moreover, when the lens body and the diaphragm are unified each other, both optical axes of the lens body and the diaphragm can be very accurately adjusted and automatically adjusted. Thus, a work to adjust accurately those optical axes is not necessary so that the lens body and the diaphragm can be produced easily and speedy. Moreover, by disposing the actual diaphragm, this invention can prevent the occurrence of the stray light such a flare and a ghost and the like and can actually remove the stray light if it occurs.

Claims

1. An image pickup lens system comprising a lens body having a positive power and a diaphragm which is unified with the lens body at a location between the first face and the second face of the lens body and of which inner cylindrical surface is disposed at a location of the inside of the lens body.

2. An image pickup lens system according to claim 1, wherein said diaphragm is unified with a lens barrel.

3. An image pickup lens system according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said inner cylindrical surface of the diaphragm has an acute angle end at a location of the first face side portion or the second face side portion of the lens body.

4. An image pickup lens system according to claim 1, claim 2 or claim 3, wherein said diaphragm is made of a material which has a similar or almost the same heat conductivity of the one of a molding die for molding the lens body.

5. An image pickup lens system according to one of the claim 1 to claim 4, wherein said diaphragm has a light shade which extends from diaphragm to the first face of the lens body along the outer cylindrical surface of the lens body.