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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2010
Hayato Yoshida, Iwate, JP;
Issei Abe, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoki Moniwa, Iwate, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a wide-angle lens having a viewing angle of more than 130°. The wide angle lens has a front group, an aperture, and a rear group arranged in this order from an object side to an image side. The front group has a first lens as a negative lens, a second lens as a negative lens, and a third lens as a positive lens arranged from the object side to the image side. The rear group is a cemented lens having a positive power when two lenses are bonded to each other. The wide-angle lens constitutes an image forming system with the five lenses as a whole, the first lens and the second lens of the front group are aspherical lenses, and the third lens is a spherical lens.