Optical: systems and elements – Lens – With variable magnification
Reexamination Certificate
2008-07-22
2008-07-22
Sugarman, Scott J (Department: 2873)
Optical: systems and elements
Lens
With variable magnification
C359S682000, C359S684000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11716306
ABSTRACT:
A zoom optical system has, in order from the object side, a first lens unit with negative refracting power, including a single lens component; a second lens unit with positive refracting power, simply moved toward the object side when the magnification of the zoom optical system is changed in the range from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position; a third lens unit with negative refracting power; and a fourth lens unit with positive refracting power. In focusing on an object point separated at least 300 times a focal length at the wide-angle position, when the magnification is changed in the range from the wide-angle position to the telephoto position, the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit are moved together so that a relative spacing between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit is widened or the fourth lens unit approaches an imaging point.
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Ichikawa Keisuke
Mihara Shin'ichi
Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
Olympus Corporation
Sugarman Scott J
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