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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2011
Shungo Hanashiro, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Iwabuchi, Saitama, JP;
Shungo Hanashiro, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Iwabuchi, Saitama, JP;
Hoya Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lens including: a lens body having first and second surfaces; a flange part formed to protrude from a periphery of the lens body and to have a cylindrical outer circumferential surface; a lens installation surface formed at an outer edge part of the flange part; a recessed part formed as a part of the flange part such that a part of the cylindrical outer circumferential surface is recessed toward the optical axis; and a gate root part located at a central part of the recessed part. The gate root part has a flat surface which is in a same level with respect to the lens installation surface. The gate root part lies on an optical axis side with respect to a virtual curved surface formed by extending the cylindrical outer circumferential surface through the recessed part.