US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on April 22 for "Tape supply device, optical cable manufacturing apparatus, and optical cable manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,974, issued on April 22, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Tape supply device, optical cable manufacturing apparatus, and optical cable manufacturing method" was invented by Shogo Miyoshi (Osaka, Japan) and Fumikazu Yoshizawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape supply device that supplies a tape to an optical cable, the tape supply device includes: an accumulator unit of a multistage unit type divided into units, each of the units including a plurality of movable rollers and a plurality of fixed rollers, the units being connected in series; and a control unit configured to control a sup...