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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2013
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Saburo Sugawara, Utsunomiya, JP;

Yusuke Akiyama, Utsunomiya, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/14 (2006.01); G02B 15/17 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/14 (2013.01); G02B 15/17 (2013.01);
Abstract

A zoom lens includes a negative lens unit arranged closest to an enlargement conjugate side among lens units having negative refractive power included in the zoom lens, at least one positive lens unit having positive refractive power arranged closer to the enlargement conjugate side than the negative lens unit, and a rear lens unit including at least one lens unit and arranged closer to a reduction conjugate side than the negative lens unit, wherein a distance between adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, a stop is arranged closer to the reduction conjugate side than the negative lens unit, the rear lens unit includes at least one positive lens, and the positive lens satisfies a predetermined condition.


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