Zoom lens with beam splitter

• US 4,786,150 A
• Filed: 09/18/1986
• Issued: 11/22/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tsuji, Sadahiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Corbin, John K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/909,125
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• Field of Search: 350/427, 350/428
• US Class Current: 359/676
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/00 Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below with variable magnification in general G02B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 15/144 having four groups only
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 7/32 using active means, e.g. light emitter including both an active and a passive focus detecting device G02B7/285; using ultrasound G02B7/40

Abstract

A zoom lens including a plurality of movable lens units for zooming, a diaphragm and a beam splitter for splitting off part of the light beam toward an optical device, characterized in that this beam splitter is arranged in between the frontmost and rearmost movable zoom units.

Claims

1. A zoom lens having a front and a rear, comprising:

a plurality of lens units each movable for zooming along an optical path, one of said lens units being located toward said zoom lens front and another of said lens units being located toward said zoom lens rear;

light beam splitting means in a fixed location between said one and such other of said lens units for splitting said optical path to provide a further optical path split-off from said optical path; and

an optical device arranged in said further optical path.

2. A zoom lens according to claim 1, wherein said optical device has a projection lens unit arranged to move in said further optical path in correspondence with movements of said movable lens units.

3. A zoom lens according to claim 1, wherein said optical device is a focus detecting device.

4. A zoom lens according to claim 1, wherein said optical device is a view finder.

5. A zoom lens according to claim 1, wherein that movable lens unit which lies ahead said beam splitting means has a magnification of -1 times in the middle of the zooming movement thereof.

6. A zoom lens according to claim 1, further comprising a lens unit arranged aside said beam splitting means to remain stationary during zooming.

7. A zoom lens according to claim 1, further comprising a diaphragm positioned behind said beam splitting means.

8. A zoom lens having a front and rear, comprising:

beam spliting means for splitting an optical path to provide a further optical path split-off from said optical path;

a front part on one side of said beam splitting means, said front optical part having at least one movable lens unit; and

a rear optical part including another movable lens unit on the opposite side of the said beam splitting means and arranged to move simultaneously with said first-mentioned movable lens unit for zooming purposes,

wherein said front optical part has a magnification of -1 times in the middle of zooming.

10. A zoom lens according to claim 8 or 9, further comprising a diaphragm positioned behind said beam splitting means.

9. A zoom lens having a front and rear, comprising:

a front movable lens unit and a rear movable lens unit which move along an optical path for zooming;

beam splitting means for splitting the optical path to provide a further optical path split-off from said optical path, said beam splitting means being fixed in between said front movable lens unit and said rear movable lens unit; and

a projection lens arranged in said further optical path to move correspondingly with movement of said front movable lens unit.