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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:
Mar. 03, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2013
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yoshihisa Tashiro, Nikko, JP;

Norihito Hiasa, Utsunomiya, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G02B 13/18 (2006.01); G02B 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/14 (2013.01); H04N 5/23296 (2013.01); G02B 13/18 (2013.01); G02B 15/177 (2013.01);
Abstract

The zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a rear unit including one or more lens units, a distance between every adjacent lens units varies during zooming, and an aperture diaphragm on the image side of the first lens unit, a combined focal length of the rear unit at a wide-angle end being positive. One lens unit LG on the object side of the aperture diaphragm is made of a solid material, and includes an optical element GnNL having a negative refractive power and another optical element having a positive refractive power, and the predetermined conditions are satisfied.


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