US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on June 2 for "Fusion splice machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,032, issued on June 2, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fusion splice machine" was invented by Shintaro Mouri (Osaka, Japan), Soichi Endo (Osaka, Japan) and Akinori Kimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fusion splicing machine according to one embodiment includes: an optical fiber holder holding an optical fiber in the state where a tip end of the optical fiber protrudes; a rotation mechanism arranged on the opposite side of the optical fiber holder to the tip end of the optical fiber and rotating the optical fiber holder around the axis extending along the optical fiber; and a clamp u...