Optical: systems and elements – Lens – With variable magnification
Reexamination Certificate
2010-11-17
2011-10-18
Lester, Evelyn A. (Department: 2873)
Optical: systems and elements
Lens
With variable magnification
C359S557000, C359S684000, C359S685000, C359S687000, C359S714000, C359S740000, C359S763000, C359S764000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08040614
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a zoom lens including a first lens group, a second lens group, a third lens group, a fourth lens group, and a fifth lens group. The zoom lens satisfies following conditional expressions (1) and (2),in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"?0.03<H1′/f1<0.3 (1)in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"?0.3<|f2|/√(fw·ft)<0.65 (2)in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"?where H1′ is an interval from a vertex of a surface nearest to the image side in the first lens group to a principal point on the image side of the first lens group (− denotes the object side, and + denotes the image side), f1is focal length of the first lens group, f2is focal length of the second lens group, fw is focal length of an entire lens system at a wide-angle end, and ft is the focal length of the entire lens system at a telephoto end.
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Matsunaga Shigehiko
Toyoda Koji
Lester Evelyn A.
Rader & Fishman & Grauer, PLLC
Sony Corporation
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