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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2015
Mitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Akihito Mitsui, Yokohama, JP;
Naohiko Moriya, Yokohama, JP;
MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to accurately maintain a positional relationship between a lens held in a holding member and an optical fiber without requiring any complicated operation. The invention includes a holder (), at one end of which a housing section () that houses a ball lens () is formed and at the other end of which an insertion hole () for inserting an optical fiber () is formed, and a magnet () provided outside in a direction crossing a housing direction of the ball lens at the one end of the holder, in which the magnet generates an attracting force for aligning a center of the ball lens with a center of an optical element provided in a coupling target.