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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 24, 2023
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Tomoya Yamada, Tochigi, JP;

Yonghee Lee, Tochigi, JP;

Yu Inomoto, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 13/02 (2006.01); G02B 15/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 13/009 (2013.01); G02B 13/0045 (2013.01); G02B 13/02 (2013.01); G02B 15/145125 (2019.08);
Abstract

A zoom lens includes, in order from object side, a positive first lens unit not moving for zooming, three or more intermediate lens units moving for zooming and a positive rear lens unit, in which each interval between adjacent lens units changes during zooming, an aperture stop is arranged in the rear lens unit, in a lens unit adjacent to the rear lens unit, or between the lens unit adjacent to the rear lens unit and the rear lens unit, the first lens unit includes, in order from the object side, negative subunit not moving for focusing, positive subunit moving for focusing, and positive subunit, a focal length of the first lens unit, a length on optical axis from most image-side surface to a rear principal point of the first lens unit, focal lengths of the zoom lens at wide angle end and at telephoto end are appropriately set.


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