Patent ID: 7971304

Claim:
An optical fiber connector cleaner comprising: a housing; a cleaning tape winding means and cleaning tape delivery means arranged inside the housing; a cleaning means having a bar-like cleaning section projecting outwardly from the housing, on the front-end of the cleaning section a cleaning tape delivered from the delivery means being movably mounted under tension in an exposed state, the front-end of the cleaning section being brought into contact with an end surface of an optical fiber connector to thereby clean the end surface; a cleaning section rotating means coaxially connected to the cleaning section in the housing and rotatably supported with respect to the housing; and a transmission means which rotates the winding means and the cleaning section rotating means substantially simultaneously in a predetermined direction through a predetermined angle and then reverses the cleaning section rotating means to its original position, wherein the transmission means includes an arm that reciprocates in a predetermined direction, and the reciprocating movement of the arm rotates the winding means and the cleaning section rotating means.