Patent ID: 6978071
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: G02B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus to cleave an optical fiber, comprising: a base plate; a jig slidably provided on the base plate and holding the optical fiber; a stripper provided proximate to the jig, and including a hot plate heating a sheath of the optical fiber, a sheath cutter cleaving the sheath of the optical fiber to be stripped, a cleaning part cleaning the optical fiber after the sheath of the optical fiber is stripped as the jig slides; and a cleaver provided on the base plate and cleaving the optical fiber whose sheath is stripped by the stripper, wherein the cleaver comprises a gripper clamping the optical fiber, a cutting wheel making a cleaved line in a lower part of the optical fiber clamped by the gripper, and a compression block compressing the optical fiber placed on the cutting wheel to cleave the optical fiber.