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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2007
Yasunari Fukuta, Sakai, JP;
Susumu Yamaguchi, Hachioji, JP;
Yasunari Fukuta, Sakai, JP;
Susumu Yamaguchi, Hachioji, JP;
Konica Minolta Opto, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides an image pickup lens for forming a light flux from a subject into an image on an image pickup element, and the image pickup lens includes, in order from an object side thereof: an aperture stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power and comprising a concave surface facing an image side of the image pickup lens; a third lens having a positive refractive power; and a fourth lens having a negative refractive power and comprising a concave surface facing the image side. The image pickup lens satisfies the predetermined condition according to a curvature radius of the surface facing the image side on the second lens, and a focal length of the image pickup lens.