IMAGE PICKUP LENS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING IMAGE PICKUP LENS

• US 20100315724A1
• Filed: 02/19/2009
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta OPTO Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta OPTO Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Fukuta, Yasunari, Matsusaka, Keiji
• Granted Patent: US 8,270,098 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/716
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 11/00403 Producing compound lenses
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/0035 having three lenses
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/006 at least one element being a compound optical element, e.g. cemented elements
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/008 designed for infrared light
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 13/18 with lenses having one or more non-spherical faces, e.g. for reducing geometrical aberration G02B13/002 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 3/0068 arranged in a single integral body or plate, e.g. laminates or hybrid structures with other optical elements G02B5/1885, G02B17/002, G02B30/27 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49817 with other than ancillary treating or assembling

Abstract

Disclosed is an image pickup lens (LN) including at least three lens blocks (BK) each equipped with a lens substrate (LS) being a parallel flat plate, and a lens or lenses (L) having a positive or negative power and being connected to at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the lens substrate (LS). In the image pickup lens (LN), a first lens block (BK1) arranged at a closest position to an object side has a positive powder, a second lens block (BK2) arranged at an image side of the first lens block (BK1) has s negative power, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied, whereby the image pickup lens capable of being easily produced at a low cost and having a high performance and a compact size can be provided.

Claims

1. An image pickup lens comprising:

at least three lens blocks each comprising

a lens substrate being a parallel flat plate, and

a lens or lenses, having a positive or negative power, being connected to at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the lens substrate,

wherein the lens or lenses included in each of the lens blocks, is formed of a different material from the lens substrate,

a first lens block which is one of the lens blocks arranged at a closest position to an object side, has a positive power,

a second lens block which is another of the lens blocks arranged at an image side of the first lens block has a negative power, and

the image pickup lens satisfies the following expression (G1);

0.7<

f[BK1]/f[all]<

1.0 

 

(G1)

where f[BK1] is a composite focal length of the first lens block, and

f[all] is a composite focal length of a total system of the image pickup lens.

2. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein the first lens block includes

a first lens substrate being the lens substrate,

a lens L[LS1o] being one of the lenses, connected to an object-side surface of the first lens substrate, and

a lens L[LS1m] being one of the lenses, connected to an image-side surface of the first lens substrate, and

wherein the image pickup lens satisfies the following expression (G2):

1.0<

(r[L[LS1m]m]+r[L[LS1o]o])/(r[L[LS1m]m]−

r[L[LS1o]o])<

4.0 

 

(G2)

where r[L[LS1m]m] is a curvature radius of an image-side lens surface of the lens L[LS1m], and

r[L[LS1o]o] is a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the lens L[LS1o].

3. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein the first lens block includes

a first lens substrate being the lens substrate, and

a lens L[LSo] being one of the lens or lenses, connected to an object-side surface of the first lens substrate, and

wherein the image pickup lens satisfies the following expression (G3):

40<

v[L[LS1o]o] 

 

(G3)

where v[L[LS1o]o] is an Abbe number of the lens L[LS1o].

4. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein the image pickup lens satisfies the following expression (G5):

0.2<

|f[BK1]/f[BK2]|<

0.6 

 

(G5)

where f[BK1] is a composite focal length of the first lens block, and

f[BK2] is a composite focal length of the second lens block.

5. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein the second lens block includes

a second lens substrate being the lens substrate, and

a lens L[LS2o] being one of the lens or lenses, connected to an object-side surface of the second lens substrate,

wherein an object-side surface of the lens L[LS2o] is a concave surface facing the object side, and

the image pickup lens satisfies the following expression (G6):

0.4<

|r[L[LS2o]o]/f[all]|<

2.0 

 

(G6)

where r[L[LS2o]o] is a curvature radius of the object-side surface of the lens L[LS2o], and

f[all] is a composite focal length of a total system of the image pickup lens.

6. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein one of the lens or lenses is connected to an image-side surface of the lens substrate in one of the lens blocks arranged at a closest position to the image side, and

an image-side surface of the one of the lens or lenses is a concave surface facing the image side and includes an inflection point.

7. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein a third lens block which is one of the lens blocks is disposed at the image side of the second lens block, and

the image pickup lens satisfies the following expression (G7):

2.0<

f[BK3]/f[all]<

15.0 

 

(G7)

where f[BK3] is a composite focal length of the third lens block, and

f[all] is a composite focal length of a total system of the image pickup lens.

8. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein the total number of lens blocks in the image pickup lens is three.

9. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein the first lens block includes

a first lens substrate being the lens substrate, and

an aperture stop for regulating an amount of light, formed on one of an object-side surface or an image-side surface of the first substrate.

10. The image pickup lens of claim 1, further comprising

an aperture stop for regulating an amount of light, arranged at the object side or the image side of the first lens block.

11. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein all of the lens substrates are parallel flat plates with the same thickness.

12. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein each of the lens substrates is formed of a glass material.

13. The image pickup lens of claim 1,

wherein each of the lens or lenses is formed of a resin material.

14. The image pickup lens of claim 13,

wherein inorganic microparticles which are 30 nm or less in size are dispersed in the resin material forming the lens or lenses.

15. The image pickup lens of claim 13,

wherein the resin material is a curable resin.

16. An image pickup apparatus comprising:

the image pickup lens of claim 1; and

an image pickup element for taking light passing through the image pickup lens.

17. A mobile terminal comprising the image pickup apparatus of claim 16.

18. A method for manufacturing the image pickup lens of claim 1, the method comprising:

a joining step of arranging a spacer on at least a part of peripheries of the lens blocks and of joining a plurality of lens block units together through the spacer, where the lens block unit is a unit including a plurality of the lens blocks which are arrayed; and

a cutting step of cutting the joined lens block units along the spacer.