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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2011
Tatsuya Orihara, Hachioji, JP;
Tsutomu Uzawa, Hidaka, JP;
Tatsuya Orihara, Hachioji, JP;
Tsutomu Uzawa, Hidaka, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An objective optical system includes, in order from an object, a negative-powered first-lens, an aperture stop, a positive-powered second-lens, and a third-lens, wherein: a surface of the first-lens which is closest to an image is a concave surface; a surface of the second-lens which is closest to the image is an aspheric surface; a surface of the third-lens which is closest to the object is a convex surface; the objective optical system has a three-group, three-lens configuration in which each of the first- to third-lenses is made up of a single lens and all surfaces of the three lenses have power; a distance d_Lbetween the second-lens and the third-lens is smaller than a distance d_Lbetween the first-lens and the second-lens, satisfying a conditional d_L/d_L<0.25; and a focal length f_Lof the second-lens, and a focal length f_Lof the third-lens satisfy the conditional 1.7<f_L/f_L