FUJIFILM FUJINON XF 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR

US 9,651,761 B2, Example 1 — Tetsuya Ori, Michio Cho

16 ELEMENTS / 12 GROUPS
MARKETED 18-135 mm f/3.5-5.6
PATENT DESIGN 18.50-130.78 mm f/3.61-5.81
4 ASPHERICAL ELEMENTS / 8 ASPHERICAL SURFACES
INNER FOCUS • OIS

Focus Mechanism

CONSTRAINED_RECONSTRUCTION: G3 (L31) alone translates objectward. At each zoom station DD11 decreases and DD13 increases by the same amount, conserving DD11 + DD13. The close state is code-solved to the FUJIFILM 0.45 m macro minimum focus distance measured from the physical sensor plane; the patent publishes infinity-focus zoom rows only.

Optical Elements (16 physical)

ElementTypeGlass
L11Negative Meniscus923209 — high-index flint class (N-SF66/FDS1 coordinate)
L12Plano-Convex PositiveFCD505 (HOYA)
L13Positive Meniscus755523 — lanthanum crown class
L21Neg. Meniscus (2× Asph)M-TAFD305 (catalog equivalent; supplier unresolved)
L22Biconcave Negative835427 — lanthanum glass class (S-LAH55V coordinates)
L23Biconvex Positive923209 — high-index flint class (N-SF66/FDS1 coordinate)
L31Biconcave Negative (2× Asph)Unmatched (798453; nd=1.79839, νd=45.28)
L41Biconvex Positive (2× Asph)Unmatched (569585; nd=1.56867, νd=58.50)
L42Biconvex PositiveS-FPL51 (OHARA)
L43Negative Meniscus923209 — high-index flint class (N-SF66/FDS1 coordinate)
L44Positive Meniscus001255 — high-index flint class (TAFD40 coordinates)
L45Biconcave Negative673382 — dense flint class (S-NBH52 coordinates)
L51Biconvex Positive (2× Asph)Unmatched (666552; nd=1.66630, νd=55.16)
L52Biconcave NegativeS-LAH58 (OHARA)
L53Biconvex PositiveS-TIH10 (OHARA)
L61Positive MeniscusS-FSL5 (OHARA)