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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2013
Ntt Advanced Technology Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Us Conec Limited, Hickory, NC (US);
Masayuki Murakami, Tokyo, JP;
Masaru Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Konishi, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Hiramoto, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiaki Satake, Hickory, NC (US);
Jillcha Fekadu Wakjira, Hickory, NC (US);
David Brian Teague, Columbia, SC (US);
NTT Advanced Technology Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
US Conec Limited, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
An optical connector cleaner comprising a supply reel, a take-up reel, a case, an operation lever, a take-up mechanism, and a holding member. The supply reel stores a cleaning cloth member having one end side wounded thereon. The take-up reel takes up the other end side of the cleaning cloth member. The case has a connector connection portion on which the cleaning cloth member is exposed. The operation lever that has an operation portion projecting from the case and is swingably supported. The take-up mechanism rotates the take-up reel in a take-up direction by a predetermined angle when the operation lever swings. The holding member holds an optical connector on the connector connection portion in a state in which a coupling face of the optical connector is pressed against the cleaning cloth member exposed to the connector connection portion.