Sony Corporation

Tamron Company, Ltd.

So Miyasaka

Hiroki Yamano

Kazuya Watanabe

Takahiro Tsuchiya

Hisashi Sutoh

Hiromitsu Sakuraba

Disclosed herein is a lens barrel including: a plurality of lenses arranged in a state of being separated from each other in a direction of an optical axis; and a lens retaining body for retaining the lenses; wherein a print pattern that has a light shielding function and is partly in contact with the lens retaining body to adjust an interval between the lenses in the direction of the optical axis is formed on at least one of the plurality of lenses.

Lens barrel and image pickup unit

A retractable zoom lens includes sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power, a second lens group having negative refractive power, a third lens group having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. The third lens group includes sequentially from the object side, a first lens that is a positive lens, a second lens that is a positive lens, and a third lens that is a negative lens. The retractable zoom lens performs variable magnification by independently moving the respective lens groups along the optical axis. Further, the retractable zoom lens satisfies given conditions and maintains high optical performance while enabling a wider angle and a reduction of overall length.

Retractable zoom lens

The positioning of the first through the third lenses in the optical axis direction is performed in the state that the optical axes are aligned by press-fitting the outer circumference surfaces of the first through the third lenses of the second lens group respectively to the first through the third lens holding portions of the lens frame and the state that the first reference plane of the first lens and the second reference plane of the second lens are contacted and the third reference plane of the second lens and the fourth reference plane of the third lens are contacted.

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Tokyo, Japan

So Miyasaka