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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2003
Ritsu Kawase, Shizuoka, JP;
Kyoichi Sasaki, Shizuoka, JP;
Masayoshi Suzuki, Shizuoka, JP;
Tatsushi Kobayashi, Shizuoka, JP;
Ryo Nagase, Tokyo, JP;
Mamoru Hirayama, Tokyo, JP;
Ritsu Kawase, Shizuoka, JP;
Kyoichi Sasaki, Shizuoka, JP;
Masayoshi Suzuki, Shizuoka, JP;
Tatsushi Kobayashi, Shizuoka, JP;
Ryo Nagase, Tokyo, JP;
Mamoru Hirayama, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoegawa Paper Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical interconnection apparatus which is very easy to handle and does not cause excessive bending and breakage of the optical fibers when connecting with other optical apparatus is provided. The optical interconnection apparatus includes a base sheet and plural optical fibers two-dimensionally routed on the base sheet via an adhesive layer. The optical fibers form a routing pattern having at least a straight part, a crossing part, a curved part or a fiber pitch changing part. The apparatus further includes another base sheet this is adhered on the said routed optical fibers. The two base sheets have a different sizes so that one of the base sheets does not exist in the vicinity of the edge of the other base sheet at which the optical fibers are outwardly extended.