US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Nov. 25 for "Optical-fiber bundle structure, optical connection structure, and method of manufacturing optical-fiber bundle structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,106, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical-fiber bundle structure, optical connection structure, and method of manufacturing optical-fiber bundle structure" was invented by Osamu Shimakawa (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Kikuchi (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiki Taru (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In each of the plurality of optical fibers, a second diameter portion has a diameter larger than that of a first diameter portion. A tapered portion connects the first diameter portion and the second diameter portion by a tapered surface. In a fiber accommodating, a second accommodatin...