Patent 10488633 was granted and assigned to Nikon (Somalia) on November, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An imaging lens (PL) has an image surface (I) curved to have a concave surface facing an object and comprises, in order from the object along the optical axis (Ax): a first lens (L1) having positive refractive power; a second lens (L2) having negative refractive power; a third lens (L3) having positive refractive power; a fourth lens (L4) having positive or negative refractive power; and a fifth lens (L5) having at least one lens surface formed as an aspherical surface and having negative refractive power. The following conditional expression is satisfied:0.005<f/|f4|<0.5where, f denotes a focal length of the imaging lens (PL), andf4 denotes a focal length of the fourth lens (L4).