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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2010
Yuta Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuhiko Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Arima, Tokyo, JP;
Hirokazu Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiharu Taga, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Yuta Aoki, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuhiko Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Arima, Tokyo, JP;
Hirokazu Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiharu Taga, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus includes: an introducer to introduce a glass optical fiber that has passed a pulling mechanism pulling, to draw the glass optical fiber, one end of an optical fiber preform that has been fused by heating; a shredder including a casing connected to the introducer and a shredding mechanism to shred the glass optical fiber introduced by the introducer in the casing into glass optical-fiber pieces; a pipe connected to the casing of the shredder and to carry the glass optical-fiber pieces; and a suction unit connected to the pipe and to suction the glass optical-fiber pieces via the pipe.