Oblique-viewing objective optical system and endoscope for oblique viewing using the same

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15719499

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The oblique-viewing objective optical system includes a front-side lens group having a negative refractive power, an optical path converting element, an aperture stop, and a rear-side lens group having a positive refractive power. The front-side lens group includes a first lens and a second lens, and the rear-side lens group includes a third lens and a cemented lens which includes a positive biconvex lens and a meniscus-shape negative lens. The first lens is a negative lens having a concave surface directed toward an image-plane side, and the second lens is a single lens having a convex surface directed toward the image-plane side or a cemented lens, and the third lens is a positive lens. The following conditional expressions (1) to (3) are satisfied:

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description='In-line Formulae' end='lead'1.0<D2/f<3.3  (2), anddescription='In-line Formulae' end='tail'

description='In-line Formulae' end='lead'9.0<L/f<31.0  (3).description='In-line Formulae' end='tail'

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OLYMPUS CORPORATION2951 ISHIKAWA-MACHI HACHIOJI-SHI TOKYO 192-8507

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Takasugi, Yoshiharu Iruma, JP 11 388

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