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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2011
Tsutomu Sasamoto, Hino, JP;
Tsutomu Sasamoto, Hino, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An endoscope objective lens unit includes a front lens group and a rear lens group with a diaphragm interposed therebetween. The front lens group includes a first lens and a second lens, and the rear lens group includes a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens. The endoscope objective lens unit satisfies following expressions (1A) to (4): (1A) −3 <SF −1; (2) −3 <Fr/Ff <−1.1; (3) −1.6 <Ff/f <−0.6; and (4) Ff/f1 <1.6, where SF is a shape factor, Ff is a focal length of the front lens group, Fr is a focal length of the rear lens group, f is a focal length of the entire unit, and fis a focal length of the first lens.