| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To reduced the size of a device and to improve the operability of the device by supporting a guide part having a long groove for engaging an optical fiber on its upper face by a supporting point part formed on a base part in parallel with the long groove. CONSTITUTION:When guide parts 15A, 15B of respective centering boards 11A, 11B are elastically deformed through respective centering operation mechanisms 41A, 41B corresponding to the guide parts 15A, 15B, the centers of the long grooves 14A, 14B of respective guide parts 15A, 15B are slightly deformed along segments AL1, BL1 which intersect with each other at right angles. When optical fiber end parts 2A, 2B are engaged and held with/in the long grooves 14A, 14B of respective guide parts 15A, 15B and slightly moved along the segments AL1, BL1 through the mechanisms 41A, 41B, axial matching for making the cores of both optical fibers coincide with each other can be executed. Since the operation can be attained only by one kind of accurate centering boards and the centering operation mechanisms can be also simplified, the device can be reduced at its size and improved at its operability. |
