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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:
Sep. 03, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359691 ; 359680 ; 359682 ; 359713 ;
Abstract
A first lens group having a negative refracting power and a second lens group having a positive refracting power are arranged in order from the photographing object side. Zooming is performed by changing the aerial interval between the first and second lens groups, and both the first and second lens groups have one or more aspheric surfaces. The first lens group includes two negative lenses and a positive lens which are arranged in order from the object side, and the second lens group includes a positive lens, a cemented lens having a positive lens and a negative lens, and a positive lens which are arranged in order from the object side.