US Patent Issued to SANWA TECHNOLOGIES on March 17 for "Ferrule cleaner cap of optical connector plug" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,537, issued on March 17, was assigned to SANWA TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Ferrule cleaner cap of optical connector plug" was invented by Masafumi Iida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ferrule cleaner cap of an optical connector plug includes a plug retainer having a through port for a ferrule F in a leading end so as to bring a cleaning cloth into contact with a front face portion of the ferrule of an optical plug, and an opening for inserting and escaping the optical connector plug in a rear end, and a cap main body having the plug retainer built-in and forming in an inner side a mounting portion for a cleaning cloth fi...