Optical system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6317270
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09725914

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A zoom optical system provides a series of lens units designed to allow for zooming with minimal change in aberration resulting from the movement of the lens units. Each lens unit has a plurality of lens units. One embodiment has, in order from the object side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power wherein the second lens unit may have at least one gradient index lens element and the first lens unit is kept stationary during a change of magnification. Additional embodiments have more or fewer lens units and the refractive power of each lens unit is varied. In some embodiments, a lens unit other than the first lens unit is kept stationary.

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  • OLYMPUS CORPORATION;OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO., LTD.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Nagaoka, Toshiyuki Akishima, JP 35 585

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