Optical fiber cutting device and optical fiber cutting method
AssigneeFujikura Ltd.
InventorsYuya KUROSAKA, Makoto IWAMATSU, Manabu TABATA
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Abstract
A cutting device for cutting an optical fiber running in a first direction is comprised of a supporting piece having a free end and a fixed end and having resilience; a cutting blade supported by the supporting piece and so disposed as to come in contact with the optical fiber to make a right angle with the optical fiber at a point of the contact; and a driving device configured to press the supporting piece in a second direction in a plane perpendicular to the first direction, the second direction being not intersecting with the first direction.
Claims5
A cutting device for cutting an optical fiber running in a first direction, comprising:
- a supporting piece having a free end and a fixed end and having resilience;
- a cutting blade supported by the supporting piece and so disposed as to come in contact with the optical fiber to make a right angle with the optical fiber at a point of the contact;
- and
- a driving device configured to press the supporting piece in a second direction in a plane perpendicular to the first direction, the second direction being not intersecting with the first direction.
A cutting method comprising:
- giving tension to an optical fiber running in a first direction;
- disposing a cutting blade supported by a supporting piece having a free end and a fixed end and having resilience so as to come in contact with the optical fiber to make a right angle with the optical fiber at a point of the contact;
- and
- pressing the supporting piece in a second direction in a plane perpendicular to the first direction, the second direction being not intersecting with the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.