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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2023
Applicant:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/38 (2006.01); G02B 6/35 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/3885 (2013.01); G02B 6/3528 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, in an optical fiber bundle, in the cross section, arrangement of cores of a first multi-core fiber and arrangement of cores of a second multi-core fiber are the same as each other, arrangement of cores of a third multi-core fiber and arrangement of cores of a fourth multi-core fiber are the same as each other, and when the first multi-core fiber is rotated 180° in a circumferential direction of the first multi-core fiber, the arrangement of the cores of the first multi-core fiber is the same as the arrangement of the cores of the fourth multi-core fiber.