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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2011
Terutake Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Kunihiko Fujiwara, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Nozawa, Tokyo, JP;
Fujikura Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided with a holding member main body having an upward U-shaped cross section and having a space to which a plurality of optical fiber ribbons can be accommodated in a laminated state; and a lid body having a downward U-shaped cross section, wherein latch structures that engage to each other when lid body covers holding member main body are provided at wall portions of lid body and holding member main body, the lid body includes an optical fiber ribbon pressing portion that presses the laminated optical fiber ribbons accommodated in holding member main body. Heating operation is not required unlike a heat shrinkable tube, and the optical fiber ribbons are held by only a simple operation of covering the lid body, so that the operation of holding the optical fiber ribbons in a laminated state is easily performed and readjustment of the position of the optical fiber ribbons in a longitudinal direction can be performed.