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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:
Jan. 05, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2012
Applicant:

Haruo Sato, Kawaguchi, JP;

Inventor:

Haruo Sato, Kawaguchi, JP;

Assignee:

Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/14 (2006.01); G02B 13/04 (2006.01); G02B 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 13/04 (2013.01); G02B 15/177 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49826 (2015.01);
Abstract

A zoom lens system includes, in order from an object, a front group G1 having negative refractive power, a rear group G2 having positive refractive power, zooming being conducted by varying a distance between the front group G1 and the rear group G2, the front group G1 including at least a negative lens and a positive lens, and the rear group G2 including, in order from an object side, a first partial group LA having positive refractive power, a second partial group LB having negative refractive power, a third partial group LC having positive refractive power and a negative lens LD, and predetermined conditions being satisfied, thereby providing a zoom lens system which is compact in size, and has small back focus and excellent optical property.


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