ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,030, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Screening apparatus for optical fiber and screening method for optical fiber" was invented by Yuki Yamada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention intends to improve accuracy of screening an optical fiber. A screening apparatus for an optical fiber according to the present invention comprising: a feeding unit that feeds out an optical fiber; a tension application unit that applies a tension to the optical fiber fed out from the feeding unit; and a winding unit that winds the optical fiber to which the tension is applied by the tension applic...