Optical: systems and elements – Lens – With variable magnification
Reexamination Certificate
2007-04-24
2007-04-24
Sugarman, Scott J. (Department: 2873)
Optical: systems and elements
Lens
With variable magnification
C359S689000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11505830
ABSTRACT:
A zoom lens having a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a third lens group having a positive refractive power arranged in the order from an object side, wherein the first lens group includes a negative lens and a positive lens having at least one aspherical surface arranged from the object side and satisfies the following condition: 0.4<D1/fw<0.66 where D1represents a distance, inside the first lens group, between a lens surface closest to an object and a lens surface closest to an image, and fw represents a focal distance with the zoom lens set to a wide-angle position.
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Adachi Nobuyuki
Iwasawa Yoshito
Murata Masayuki
Hasan M.
Kananen Ronald P.
Rader & Fishman & Grauer, PLLC
Sony Corporation
Sugarman Scott J.
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