US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Oct. 27 for "Fusion splicer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,138, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fusion splicer" 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 splicer according to one embodiment is a fusion splicer that fusion-splices a first end surface of a first optical fiber and a second end surface of a second optical fiber to each other. An axis of the first optical fiber coincides with an axis of the second optical fiber. The fusion splicer includes a first rotation mechanism that rotates the first optical fiber about the axis; a sec...