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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:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Satoshi Yahagi, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd., Omiya, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359691 ; 359682 ;
Abstract
An inexpensive, high performance zoom lens includes, as measured from the object side, a negative first lens group and a positive second lens group. The overall length of the zoom lens is reduced by making one of the lens element surfaces of the first lens group G.sub.1 aspherical. A lens element in the second lens group is designed to be a biconvex lens with the same absolute value of radii of curvature, to thereby make the zoom lens inexpensive to produce and assemble.