Patent ID: 8402587

Claim:
An optical connector cleaning tool comprising a holder, and a cleaner which is rotatably attached to said holder and cleans a connection surface of an optical connector by a cleaning thread, said holder including a cylindrical slider including an elastic piece having a guide projection on a circumferential wall, a cylindrical body having, in an outer circumferential surface, a spiral groove with which said guide projection engages, and installed in said slider such that said cylindrical body is rotatable and movable forward and backward, a slider return spring which returns said slider to an initial position, and a shaft accommodated in said slider, said cleaner including a rotary pod connected to said body, a supply reel around which said cleaning thread is wound, a take-up reel which has one end connected to said shaft and takes up a used cleaning thread, and a cleaning pin which brings said cleaning thread into contact with the connection surface of the optical connector, and said cleaning pin including a thread support portion having, on a distal end face, a thread support surface which supports said cleaning thread, and protruding from said rotary pod, wherein said rotary pod gives tension to said cleaning thread by rotating together with said body during cleaning, thereby supplying an unused cleaning thread from said supply reel, and taking up a used cleaning thread to said take-up reel.