Kokusai Denshin Denwa Kabushiki Kaisha

Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd.

Taiichiro Nakai

Yoshihiro Ejiri

Makoto Nunokawa

Kahei Furusawa

Yasuhiko Niiro

Masanori Sato

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Kitsutaro Amano

Yoshihiko Yamazaki

Akira Nagai

Akira Matsuzaki

Yukio Nakagome

Yoshiro Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Yuguchi

An anchor for hooking and cutting a submarine cable comprises an anchor body part, a cable-hooking part and a connecting part, these parts being connected together into a form like a fishing hook. A cable-sensing device is provided on the inner side of the connecting part and spring-biased in the floating-up direction. A cutting device is provided for cutting and holding the submarine cable by being advanced from the anchor body part by hydraulic pressure making use of a force such as sea water pressure or a tugging force for raising the submarine cable externally applied to the anchor body part when the cable-sensing device is caused to sink against the biasing force in the floating-up direction by receiving the tension in the cable hooked on the inner side of the connecting part.

Anchor for hooking, severing and holding marine cable

An anchoring structure is disclosed for connecting to a casing of an optical submarine repeater or a cable joint box an optical submarine cable which is composed of a cylindrical pressure proof layer formed by a combination of three deformed metal wires of the same sectorial cross-section and disposed inside an insulator so that the pressure proof layer has centrally thereof a circularly-sectioned optical fiber unit housing space for housing an optical fiber unit formed by at least one optical fiber, a cable tensile-strength member formed by a plurality of tensile-strength wires disposed concentrically with the cylindrical pressure proof layer on the outside thereof and a metallic tape layer disposed in a cylindrical form outside the tensile-strength member to extend in its axial direction, the seam of the metallic tape layer being welded and the insulator being disposed outside the metallic tape layer. The anchoring structure of the present invention is composed of a conical anchor member having inserted therethrough at least the optical fiber unit in a through hole made in the conical anchor member along its axial direction, a conical member bearing metal means having a tapered hole conformable to the external configuration of the conical member and fixed to the casing with the tensile-strength wires held between the inner wall of the hole and the external surface of the conical member, and a cylindrical pressure proof layer anchoring mechanism for anchoring the cylindrical pressure proof layer to the conical member bearing metal means.

Optical submarine cable connection

An optical fiber submarine cable, which is provided with at least one coated optical fiber, a power supplying, pressure resisting layer of a pipe-like configuration, a tension resisting wire layer formed of a conductive material of relatively low conductivity and disposed in close contact with the power supplying, pressure resisting layer of the pipe-like configuration, and an insulator layer disposed around the tension resisting wire layer. The power supplying, pressure resisting layer is formed as at least one inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer is formed as a single layer or composite layers by forming a tape-like good conductor material into a pipe-like configuration with its joint made a mere butt, or by assembling together a plurality of pressure resisting material segments equally divided in the circumference direction for at least one layer of the inner layer and having housed the above-mentioned at least one coated optical fiber in an optical fiber housing space defined centrally of the inner layer. The outer layer is formed by winding a metal tape on the inner layer.

Optical fiber submarine cable

A submarine optical fiber cable using a low-loss optical fiber as a transmission medium, which is provided with a cylindrical pressure resisting layer composed of an assembly of three equally divided long pressure resisting segments of fan-shaped sections with flat contact planes and having at least one optical fiber in an optical fiber housing space formed in the center of the assembly so as to protect the optical fiber from a high water pressure.

Submarine optical fiber cable

An optical fiber submarine cable comprising at least one optical fiber. A pipe-like pressure resisting layer is produced by forming a tape-like pressure resisting material into a pipe-like configuration with the optical fiber inserted therein. The pressure resisting layer has butt ends in its cross section, and a waterproof insulator layer is disposed closely around the pipe-like pressure resisting layer for maintaining the pipe-like configuration of the pipe-like pressure resisting layer and for preventing seawater from entering into a gap between the butt ends.

An optical fiber introducing equipment for an optical submerged repeater, in which for introducing an optical fiber for optical communication into an optical submerged repeater housing through an introducing hole, the coating of the portion of the optical fiber to be disposed in the introducing part is entirely removed for a suitable length; the coated optical fiber having the exposed fiber portion is inserted into a small-diametered metal cylinder having an insertion hole which has an inner diameter more than several times as large as the outer diameter of the coated optical fiber; an adhesive whose volume remains substantially unchanged even if hardened is filled between the optical fiber and the insertion hole to unite the optical fiber and the metal cylinder; seawater preventing means is provided on the outside of the adhesive for preventing the adhesive from making direct contact with seawater; and the metal cylinder is disposed in the introducing hole provided at a part of the repeater housing.

Optical fiber introducing equipment for optical submerged repeater

A feedthrough for optical submerged repeater, in which a clad part of an optical fiber to be introduced into the feedthrough is given a metal coating; the coated part is inserted into a small-diametered metal pipe to be hermetically fixed between the optical fiber and the small-diametered metal pipe as by soft solder; and the small-diametered metal pipe is inserted into a disc sleeve to hermetically fix them as by brazing. Between the disc sleeve and a metal body housing the disc sleeve, polyethylene is molded for electrical insulation therebetween and for holding air-tightness against seawater, and at the side of the disc sleeve facing toward seawater or at both sides of the disc sleeve, an insulator of the optical fiber cable and polyethylene of the abovesaid molding are molded to be contiguous to each other. The abovementioned metal body is fixedly attached to the end face plate of the pressure resisting casing in a manner to provide an air-tight structure.

Feed through for optical submerged repeater

An optical fiber submarine cable, in which a high viscosity material of good wettability containing air gaps is filled in a space between an optical fiber cord having housed therein at least one coated optical fiber and a pressure resisting material layer having housed therein the optical fiber cord for protecting it from seawater pressure. The air gaps and the high viscosity material are arranged alternately with each other in the space at suitable intervals in the lengthwise direction of the cable. Alternatively, the air gaps are contained in the form of bubbles in the high viscosity material.

A frequency band compression method, using Time Compression, for use with a frequency division multiplex (FDM) signal carrying voice signal. On the transmission end, the multiplexed signal is divided into a plurality of time segments, each segment having a certain duration, then deleting a part of the each segment and time-expanding the remaining part of the segment by a sawtooth variable delay, thus lowering the frequency of the signal to a predetermined ratio. On the receive end, the signal segments are compressed by a corresponding variable delay, thus making the received frequency higher and reproducing the original multiplexed voice signals.

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Fujisawa, Japan

Taiichiro Nakai