Ube Nitto Kasei Co., Ltd.

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Ryouzo Nishikawa

Hiroki Ishikawa

Yoshiyuki Suetsugu

Hideyuki Iwata

Toku Ishii

Kazunori Watanabe

Shigeru Tanaka

Norihiro Nakayama

Naoki Tanaka

A high-durability photocatalyst film that is a laminated film comprising a substrate film and a photocatalytically active material layer formed thereon via a protective layer, wherein the substrate film is a film having specific performances in a weather resistance test with a sunshine weatherometer, the protective layer is an organic-inorganic composite graded film and the above laminated film exhibits specific performances in an accelerated weather resistance test with a sunshine weatherometer, and a structure having photocatalytic functions on a surface formed of the above photocatalyst film.

High-durability photocatalyst film and structure having photocatalytic functions on surface

An optical cable has a plurality of optical fibers. The optical fibers are contained in fiber containing cavities of chamber elements. Each chamber element has a bottom part and a pair of side wall parts, which defines a fiber containing cavity. The individual chamber elements containing the optical fibers are assembled around a thickening layer in an S-Z strand. Each side wall part is formed such that its thickness gradually decreases from its base end portion toward free end portion. Also, the thickness of the bottom part is greater than the thickness of each side wall part.

Optical cable and optical cable chamber element

An optical cable has an S-Z stranded part in which plurality of chamber elements containing optical fibers are assembled around a central member in an S-Z strand in the state where their bottom faces are in contact with the central member. Each chamber element has such a characteristic that its flexural rigidity in the depth direction of its fiber containing cavity is smaller than that in the widthwise direction thereof. Assuming, of distortion energy of the chamber element in an S-Z reverse portion within the S-Z stranded part, the distortion energy in the case where the bottom face of the chamber element is in contact with the central member to be U.sub.1, and the distortion energy in the case where a side face of the chamber element is in contact with the central member to be U.sub.2, a relational expression of .DELTA.U=U.sub.1 -U.sub.2 .ltoreq.0.2(mJ/mm) is satisfied.

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Gifu, Japan

Ryouzo Nishikawa