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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2016
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroki Takagi, Shiki, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 54/10 (2006.01); B65H 55/04 (2006.01); G02B 6/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 54/10 (2013.01); B65H 55/04 (2013.01); G02B 6/04 (2013.01); B65H 2701/32 (2013.01);
Abstract
While a winding member is making one rotation, an optical fiber is once skewed relative to the circumferential direction and further shifted by a desired length in the width direction of a circumferential surface. In this state, the winding member winds up the optical fiber. This operation is performed in the same direction every rotation when the winding member rotates (N−1) times. Next, in the N-th rotation of the winding member, a guide member performs the guide to the optical fiber to skew reversely to the direction of shifting in the (N−1) rotations of the winding member.