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The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Tamezo Suzuki

Naoshi Kikuchi

Takashi Shinohara

Takeo Munakata

Tetsuya Okada

Naoyoshi Shimokura

Yukikatsu Aida

Yuji Ishikubo

Hiroji Akasaka

Takao Kaneko

Hideo Banse

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

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Ihara, Japan

Tamezo Suzuki