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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2021
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An infrared lens unit includes a lens barrel and an infrared lens supported on the lens barrel. The lens barrel includes a tubular part extending along a central axis extending in upward and downward directions and having an inner circumferential surface surrounding the central axis and a through-hole therein demarcated by the inner circumferential surface, and a protruding part disposed on the inner circumferential surface of the tubular part. The infrared lens is supported by the tubular part via the protruding part. The infrared lens is made of chalcogenide glass. The protruding part includes, in a cross section of the protruding part on a plane on which the central axis extends a linear portion extending in an upward direction from its lower end to its upper end and a sloping portion including an upper end and a lower end located at the upper end of the linear portion. The first sloping portion is inclined with respect to the linear portion such that the first sloping portion is away from the central axis as extending from the lower end to the upper end of the first sloping portion. The infrared lens contacts the linear portion and the sloping portion of the protruding part.