Nippon Steel Welding Products and Engineering Co., Ltd.

Yoshiro Takamatsu

Kazufumi Tabata

Kiyomi Yokoi

A connector for connecting an optical fiber cable to an equipment adaptor, a flexible metal tube clad optical fiber cable including a flexible metal tube through which an optical fiber core rod extends and which is used for connection with an equipment, a relay adaptor for providing a connection between cables of different kinds, and a seamless metal tube clad optical fiber cable including a seamless tube through which an optical fiber core rod extends and which is used for wiring over a relatively long distance are disclosed individually and in combinations. The connector is connected to the flexible metal tube clad optical fiber cable, which is then connected through the relay adaptor to the seamless metal tube clad optical fiber cable. A certain element of the connector is formed of an insulator to provide an electrical isolation between the metal tube and the equipment adaptor.

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Sakurashi, Japan

Yoshiro Takamatsu