Fusion splice machine
AssigneeSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsShintaro MOURI, Soichi ENDO, Akinori KIMURA
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Abstract
A fusion splicing machine according to one embodiment includes: an optical fiber holder holding an optical fiber in the state where a tip end of the optical fiber protrudes; a rotation mechanism arranged on the opposite side of the optical fiber holder to the tip end of the optical fiber and rotating the optical fiber holder around the axis extending along the optical fiber; and a clamp unit pressing the tip end portion of the optical fiber held by the optical fiber holder. The rotation mechanism rotates the clamp unit together with the optical fiber holder.
Claims7
A fusion splicing machine comprising:
- an optical fiber holder holding an optical fiber in the state where a tip end of the optical fiber protrudes;
- a rotation mechanism arranged on the opposite side of the optical fiber holder to the tip end of the optical fiber and rotating the optical fiber holder around the axis extending along the optical fiber;
- and
- a clamp unit pressing the tip end portion of the optical fiber held by the optical fiber holder,
- wherein the rotation mechanism rotates the clamp unit together with the optical fiber holder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.