Patent ID: 6842295

Claim:
An imaging lens for an image pickup device formed of only two lens components, in order from the object side, a first lens component and a second lens component, wherein: an aperture diaphragm is on the object side of the first lens component; the object-side lens surface of the first lens component is aspheric; the image-side lens surface of the first lens component is aspheric; the object-side lens surface of the second lens component is aspheric and the lens surface configuration near the optical axis of the object-side lens surface of the second lens component is convex; the image-side lens surface of the second lens component is aspheric; and the lens surface configuration near the optical axis of at least one of the object-side lens surface of the first lens component, the image-side lens surface of the first lens component, and the image-side lens surface of the second lens component is concave.