Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sei Optifrontier Co., Ltd.

Tsuyoshi Tada

Toshihiko Homma

Masahiro Hasegawa

An optical fiber cleaver includes a cleaver base body having a holder guide portion which positions a fiber holder holding an optical fiber, and a cleaver lid body attached to the cleaver base body to be openable and closable. A slider having a blade member piercing the optical fiber is attached to the cleaver base body to be movable in a width direction. A pawl member is arranged in one sidewall of the holder guide portion. Further, a count indication mechanism which counts and indicates the number of times the slider returns to an initial position is provided in the cleaver base body. The optical fiber cleaver is configured to enable a counting operation of the count indication mechanism only when the fiber holder is set in the holder guide portion such that the pawl member is pressed.

Optical fiber cutter

The optical fiber cuttercomprises a cutter baseand a cutter lidattached openably and closably to the cutter base. A sliderhaving a blade member for incising an optical fiber is attached to the cutter baseso as to be movable widthwise. A switching plateis attached to a rear end part of the cutter base, while a switcheris provided on the outer surface side of the switching plate. When the switcheris at a first position, the cutter lidengages a stopper, thereby attaining an opening angle of 35&#xb0;. When the switcheris at a second position, the engagement between the cutter lidand the stopper is released, whereby the cutter lidattains an opening angle of 70&#xb0;.

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Tsuyoshi Tada