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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2020
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Takagi, Shiki, JP;
Ken Tamura, Tokyo, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical fiber bundle manufacturing apparatus includes: a winding member; a guide member movable in a direction parallel to a rotary axis, the guide member being configured to guide an optical fiber wire to any one of first winding positions, a converging winding position and second winding positions; and a processor configured to perform processing to move the guide member such that a first branching portion branching into p branches, a converging portion converging the first branching portion branching into p branches into one, a second branching portion branching into q branches, and a connecting portion connecting the first branching portion and the second branching portion are formed in this order by the optical fiber wire.