The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.

Chubu Electric Power Company, Inc.

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Viscas Corporation

Naoshi Kikuchi

Jun Katoh

Tomoyuki Watanabe

Takaharu Mitsuhashi

Takeo Munakata

Kazuhiro Nakamura

Yuji Ishikubo

Yoshitake Shibata

Tamezo Suzuki

Naoyoshi Shimokura

Takashi Shinohara

Tetsuya Okada

Takao Kaneko

Yukikatsu Aida

Hiroji Akasaka

Teruhiro Yukino

Katsuhiro Fujimoto

Hideo Banse

Masao Kamiji

An overhead cable including a plurality of element wires stranded to form a naked stranded cable, which has a cross-sectional shape of an equilateral polygon inscribed in a circle having a diameter of 18.2 mm to 38.4 mm as a fundamental cross-sectional shape, in which two sides of this equilateral polygon that are located at positions farthest from each other are outwardly projected, has two flat-plate-shaped projections corresponding to the two sides, wherein the number of angles of the equilateral polygon is set depending to the diameter of the circle.

Polygonal overhead cable

An overhead cable is provided that comprises a tension-bearing core of twisted steel strands, a conductive layer of aluminum strands arranged at the outer circumference of the twisted steel strands, and an outermost layer arranged at the outer circumference of the aluminum strands. The outermost layer is formed by twisting together a plurality of adjoining segment strands. A spiral groove is provided in the longitudinal direction along the boundary portion of the outer circumferential surface of each adjoining segment strand. Along the contour of a cross-section of this outermost layer, each groove comprises an arc-shaped curve having a radius R centered around a vertex of a regular polygon. Each part between adjoining grooves comprises an arc-shaped curve which is concave with respect to a straight line connecting adjoining of a regular polygon, intersecting the arc-shaped curve with radius R.

Overhead cable

An overhead cable includes an outermost surface formed by twisting together a plurality of segment strands. A plurality of spiral grooves form recesses having substantially rectangular cross-sections and are provided at intervals in a circumferential direction of either the outer surface of the segment strands or the outer surface regions of boundary portions where twisted segment strands adjoin each other. Thin segment strands and at least one thick segment strand form the outermost layer. A recessed portion is provided at one side surface among two surfaces of the segment strands forming the outermost layer, a projecting portion is provided at the other side surface, and the strands are twisted together so that the recessed portions and the projecting portions mate. The recessed and projecting portions formed at the two side surfaces of the segment strands mate with each other to form recess-projection mating portions, and the lengths of the contact of the recessed and projecting surfaces at the recess-projection mating portions is configured to be no more than 10% of the length of the recess-projection mating portions.

Overhead wire

A clamp for an overhead line including a clamp body in which a first gripping groove for gripping the overhead line is formed; a clamp cap in which a second gripping groove for gripping the overhead line is formed and which is pivotably attached to the clamp body via a hinge unit; a fastening unit for fastening the clamp body and clamp cap in a manner enabling free opening and closing so that the overhead line is affixed between the first and second gripping grooves so as to be unable to move in an axial direction at the pivot position of the final fastening state; and an expansion unit for causing the clamp cap to stop at a position where it is forcibly kept open by a predetermined clearance from the clamp body against a fastening force given by the fastening unit so that the clamp body and the clamp cap are not located at the pivot position of the final fastening state and in addition so that a clearance is formed between the first and second gripping grooves and the overhead line and a method for attachment of the same.

Clamp for overhead line having expansion means and cam means

Clamp for overhead line and method of attachment thereof

An overhead cable provided with a plurality of segment strands of a sector-shaped cross-section twisted at the outermost layer and having grooves of a substantially arc-shaped cross-section at the surface at the adjoining portions of the segment strands. Also, a low sag, low wind load cable provided with tension-bearing cores comprised of strands having a linear expansion coefficient of -6.times.10.sup.-6 to 6.times.10.sup.-6 /.degree.C. and an elastic modulus of 100 to 600 PGa and with a plurality of sector-shaped cross-section segment strands twisted around the outermost circumference of the cable including the tension-bearing cores comprised of a super-high-heat resisting aluminum alloy or extra-high heat resisting aluminum alloy, grooves of a substantially arc-shaped cross-section being provided at the surface at adjoining portions of the twisted segment strands. This enables the wind load to be reduced. Further, a low wind load cable can be easily fabricated at a low cost. In addition, by using invar strands for the cores and using segment strands of a super-high heat resisting aluminum alloy or extra-high heat resisting aluminum alloy at the outermost layer, the sag at high temperatures can be greatly suppressed. Accordingly, even the amount of the sideways swinging caused when the overhead cable is struck by a strong wind from the lateral direction can be greatly suppressed together with the low wind load construction.

Overhead cable and low sag, low wind load cable

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Tokyo, Japan

Naoshi Kikuchi