Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Diamond&zebra Electric Mfg.co., Ltd.

Hiroyuki Kimura

Ryosuke Hata

Masayuki Hirose

Mitsuhiro Izumi

Masayoshi Yamaguchi

Tsutomu Kusuhara

Toshiyuki Amagai, Deceased

An ignition device for an internal combustion engine that uses fuels including hydrogen. The ignition device includes an ignition coil including a primary coil and a secondary coil, a power supply device, a switching element, a spark plug, and a limiting diode. The switching element performs switching between passage and interruption of a primary current. The spark plug causes discharge at a gap, based on a high voltage induced at the secondary coil. The limiting diode includes a Zener diode that is forward-biased when oriented in a direction from the one end to the other end of the secondary coil. A breakdown voltage of the limiting diode is higher than the maximum value of an ON-state voltage obtained by multiplication of a value of a direct-current voltage applied to the primary coil by a ratio of the number of turns of the secondary coil to that of the primary coil.

Ignition device

An optical-fiber incorporated longer-sized subaqueous unit comprises optical fiber units arranged inside or outside a plastic sheath provided on the periphery of the core body of the longer-sized subaqueous unit such as power cable core or water supply tube. Each optical fiber unit includes an optical fiber accommodated in a metal pipe having on its periphery a coating layer made of plastic material with a melting point higher than that of the material of the plastic sheath, and armoring iron wire bundles are further provided outside the plastic sheath on the periphery of the core body, thereby preventing any buckling in the optical fiber units.

Optical-fiber cable incorporated longer-sized subaqueous unit

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Osaka, Japan

Hiroyuki Kimura