US 12,280,974 B2
Tape supply device, optical cable manufacturing apparatus, and optical cable manufacturing method
Shogo Miyoshi, Osaka (JP); and Fumikazu Yoshizawa, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/457,851.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-137186 (JP), filed on Aug. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0067483 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. B65H 23/188 (2006.01); B65H 20/34 (2006.01); G02B 6/44 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 23/188 (2013.01) [B65H 20/34 (2013.01); B65H 23/1888 (2013.01); B65H 2403/725 (2013.01); B65H 2408/217 (2013.01); B65H 2701/32 (2013.01); G02B 6/4479 (2013.01); G02B 6/4486 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tape supply device that supplies a tape to an optical cable, the tape supply device comprising:
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 supply order of the tape from the units, wherein
each of the units includes a brake configured to stop the movable rollers, and
when the units are switched, the control unit performs control such that the brakes of two of the units before and after the switching do not operate simultaneously.