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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. 23, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/318 ; G02B 3/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/318 ; G02B 3/02 ;
Abstract
An objective lens system for optical pickups performing at least one of reading and writing of information by condensing a luminous flux from a light source on an information recording medium, has the following two lens elements from a light source side: a first lens element having a first surface convex to the light source side and a second surface convex to the light source side; and a second lens element having a third surface convex to the light source side and a plane fourth surface, wherein the first surface is an aspherical surface.