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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:
May. 21, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Fumio Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359771 ; 359772 ; 359780 ; 359684 ; 359686 ;
Abstract
A taking lens for an underwater camera is constituted in the order from the side of a subject of a first lens group having no or slight refracting power, a second lens group having a positive refracting power, a third lens group having positive refracting power and a fourth lens group having negative refracting power. When focusing from the infinity to a closer distance, the first lens group is fixed to the image surface and the second and third lens groups are moved forward along the optical axis such that the distance between the second and third lens groups is changed.