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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359689 ; 359714 ;
Abstract
A compact zoom lens system comprises a front negative lens component and a rear positive lens component with a variable air space between the front and the rear lens components. The front negative lens component consists of two lens elements and the rear lens component consists of two or three lens elements. A plurality of aspherical surfaces are employed for the compact zoom lens system. Furthermore, some zoom lens system includes an additional negative lens component having a weak refractive power behind the rear lens component.