Cleaning tool for optical fiber connectors
AssigneeNTT Advanced Technology Corporation
InventorsTaisei Miyake, Hitoshi Goto, Isao Iwakane
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Abstract
The cleaning tool for optical fiber connectors has cleaning sheet laminated to the bottom surface of a front plate. A plurality of rows of slit shaped windows are opened through the front plate. Peel-off sheet is attached to the front plate to close off the windows. Peel-off sheet sealing off the windows is removed to open a window, an optical fiber connector is moved within the exposed window, and the connecting surface of the optical fiber connector is cleaned by the cleaning sheet.
Claims27
A cleaning tool for optical fiber connectors comprising:
- a front plate having a plurality of slit shaped windows therein;
- a peel-off sheet removably attached to the front plate in a manner that seals the plurality of windows in the front plate;
- a cleaning,sheet disposed under a bottom surface of the front plate;
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- a bottom plate having perimeter walls disposed under the bottom surface of the cleaning sheet,
- wherein the peel-off sheet is removably attached to the front plate in a manner allowing separate unsealing of each of the plurality of windows, and wherein the front plate is operable to be inserted inside the perimeter walls.
A cleaning tool for optical fiber connectors comprising:
- a cleaning cartridge including a front plate having a bottom surface, an upper surface and a plurality of rows of windows therethrough, a cleaning sheet under the bottom surface and a removable peel-off sheet attached to the upper surface and sealing the plurality of windows;
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- a main case having a cleaning cartridge attachment surface,
- wherein the cleaning cartridge is detachably fastenable to the cleaning cartridge attachment surface, and
- wherein the removable peel-off sheet is operable to be removed thereby unsealing a window such that when an optical fiber connector plug is moved within the unsealed window the optical fiber connector plug ferrule region and plug end surface are cleaned by the cleaning sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.