Patent ID: 6975803

Claim:
An optical fiber end face cleaner for cleaning an end face of an optical fiber by removing deposits on the end face of the optical fiber, said optical fiber end face cleaner comprising: a plurality of laminated optical fiber end face cleaner units, each laminated optical fiber end face cleaner unit comprising: one elastic base comprising an elastic member which has one flat surface of a predetermined size and which has a predetermined thickness in a direction perpendicular to the one flat surface; and one adhesive layer formed on a predetermined area of a surface of said one elastic base, for allowing the end face of the optical fiber to be pressed against a surface of said adhesive layer; wherein the plurality of laminated optical fiber end face cleaner units are sequentially laminated such that the adhesive layer of one optical fiber end face cleaner unit is adhered to a back surface of the elastic base of an adjacent optical fiber end face cleaner unit, such that said laminated optical fiber end face cleaner units are able to be sequentially peeled off one by one from a foremost unit side.