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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2007
Toshihiko Honma, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsutomu Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukihiro Yokomachi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshikyo Tamekuni, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiko Honma, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsutomu Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukihiro Yokomachi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshikyo Tamekuni, Kanagawa, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A holder capable of protecting an optical connector ferrule from an external shock, or the like and executing a fusion-splice of a short optical fiber not to take out the optical connector ferrule from the holder is obtained. A holder for holding a connector plug equipped with an optical connector ferrule to which a short optical fiber is fitted and a plug frame for covering an outer periphery of the optical connector ferrule therein, wherein, when the short optical fiber together with the holder is fitted to a fusion splicing apparatus that fusion-splices the short optical fiber and other coated optical fiber, the short optical fiber extended from the plug frame is positioned in a fusion position.