US 12,405,455 B2
Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus
Masaru Sakamoto, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/818,525.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-131582 (JP), filed on Aug. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0064725 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 15/14 (2006.01); G02B 15/167 (2006.01); G02B 15/20 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 15/145125 (2019.08) [G02B 15/1461 (2019.08); G02B 15/167 (2013.01); G02B 15/20 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A zoom lens comprising, in order from an object side to an image side:
a first lens unit having a positive refractive power and configured not to move for zooming;
at least three movable lens units configured to move so that a distance between each pair of adjacent lens units therein changes for zooming; and
a final lens unit disposed closest to the image side in lens units included in the zoom lens, having a positive refractive power, and configured not to move for zooming,
wherein a movable lens unit closest to the image side in the at least three movable lens units has a positive refractive power, and a movable lens unit second closest to the image side in the at least three movable lens units has a negative refractive power,
wherein the first lens unit includes:
a first sub unit closest to the object side and configured not to move for focusing; and
a second sub unit configured to move for focusing,
wherein the final lens unit includes a positive lens closest to the image side in elements having a refractive power in the final lens unit, and
wherein following inequalities are satisfied:
80≤vdp≤81.54,
2.24≤Ndp+0.01vdp,
4≤Z≤50, and
2.5≤Le/fw≤5.46
where vdp represents an Abbe number with respect to a d-line of the positive lens, Ndp represents a refractive index with respect to the d-line of the positive lens, Z represents a zoom ratio of the zoom lens, Le represents a distance on an optical axis from a lens surface closest to the object side in the final lens unit to an image side surface of the positive lens in the final lens unit, and fw represents a focal length of the zoom lens at a wide-angle end.