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Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2008
Applicant:

Yasushi Yamamoto, Kishiwada, JP;

Inventor:

Yasushi Yamamoto, Kishiwada, JP;

Assignee:

Konica Minolta Opto, Inc., Haichioji-Shi, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/14 (2006.01); G02B 3/02 (2006.01); G02B 9/34 (2006.01); G02B 9/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A zoom lens system includes, in order from an object side: a first lens group having negative power, a second lens group having negative power, a third lens group having positive power, and, a fourth lens group having positive power. The position of the first lens group is fixed during zooming, and the third lens group includes three single lenses including, in order from the object side, a third-first single lens having positive power, a third-second single lens having negative power and a third-third single lens having negative power. The zoom lens system satisfies the following conditional expression:0.4<3/<1.2where Lrepresents the axial air gap distance between the third-second lens and the third-third lens and fw represents the focal length of the entire system of the zoom lens system at a wide angle end position.


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