Kantatsu Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Visionary Optics Co., Ltd.

Dart Industries Inc.

Kantatsu., Ltd.

Masaya Hashimoto

Yoshio Ise

Yukio Sekine

Koji Nitta

Kenichi Kamada

Hisao Fukaya

Tomohiro Yonezawa

Shingo Yuza

Masaki Yamazaki

Tohru Ishizaka

There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with positive refractive power, a third lens with negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens with positive refractive power, a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, wherein said first lens is formed in a meniscus shape having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, said second lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, said sixth lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and said seventh lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.

Imaging lens

There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with positive or negative refractive power, a third lens with positive or negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens with negative refractive power, a sixth lens with positive refractive power, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, wherein said first lens has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, said third lens has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, said fifth lens is formed in a biconcave shape having an object-side surface and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and said seventh lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.

There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, a second lens with positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a third lens with the negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a fourth lens with the positive refractive power in a paraxial region, a fifth lens having a flat object-side surface and a flat image-side surface that are aspheric, and a sixth lens with the negative refractive power having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region.

There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of low-profileness and low F-number. An imaging lens comprises, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, a second lens with negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a third lens with negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, a fifth lens with positive or negative refractive power in a paraxial region, and a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power having an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.

Imaging lens including six lenses of +−−−−+, +−−+−+ or +−−−+− refractive powers

An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features compactness and a wide field of view. The imaging lens is composed of seven lenses to form an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with positive or negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; a meniscus fifth lens having a convex surface on the image side; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, in which an air gap is provided between lenses.

There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region; a second lens with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region; a third lens with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region; a fourth lens with negative refractive power in a paraxial region; and a fifth lens with positive refractive power having an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.

There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of low profile and low F-number. An imaging lens comprising in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, a second lens with negative refractive power in a paraxial region, a third lens with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, a fourth lens having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, a fifth lens with negative refractive power in a paraxial region, and a sixth lens with positive refractive power having an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.

There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region, a second lens with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region, a third lens having a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region, a fourth lens having a convex image-side surface in a paraxial region, a fifth lens having a convex object-side surface in a paraxial region, and a sixth lens having a concave image-side surface in a paraxial region, wherein three out of four lenses from the third lens to the sixth lens have positive refractive power or negative refractive power in the paraxial region, and one out of four lenses is formed in a meniscus shape, substantially has no refractive power in the paraxial region, and has aspheric surfaces on both sides, and a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied.

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