Patent ID: 6945860
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: B24B,G02B

Abstract:
1. An optical connector end face machining apparatus comprising: an operation circuit box having a drive motor and a battery and serving as a grasping section; a planetary gear mechanism box including a drive mechanism that rotatably retains a polishing table on a polishing table retainer and permits rotation from the drive motor to be delivered to the polishing table retainer through a planetary gear mechanism; and a chuck mounting section fixedly secured to the planetary gear mechanism box, wherein the chuck mounting section includes a chuck that allows a ferrule to be guided with respect to the polishing table for a sliding capability in a vertical direction, and a pressure-applying mechanism that causes the ferrule to be vertically held in pressured contact with the polishing table, wherein the drive mechanism rotates and revolves the polishing table and the polishing table retainer on a surface, opposing to an end face, to be processed, of the ferrule, and wherein the drive mechanism further includes: wherein the presence of a difference in gear teeth between the sun gear and the second planetary gear allows the second planetary gear, the polishing table retainer and the polishing table to rotate and revolve about a center of the central shaft.