Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Rope Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Junichi Ibukuro

Hiroki Sugiyama

Shinsuke Yamazaki

Yasuyuki Kai

Satoru Kuramata

A cable () includes a cable body () that is formed from a plurality of wires () that are integrally bundled; and a pair of sockets () to which both end portions of the cable body () is separately affixed; at least one of the plurality of wires () being a fiber-containing wire (), which is formed by an optical fiber () that extends in a cable length direction (D) and that is protected by a protective tube (); wherein the optical fiber () protrudes from the protective tube (), in the cable length direction, further outside than the socket (); and each of the pair of sockets () is provided with a spool () that removably holds the optical fiber () and imparts an initial tensile strain to the optical fiber ().

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Tokyo, Japan

Junichi Ibukuro