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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2020
Neubrex Co., Ltd., Kobe, JP;
Nishi Nippon Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd., Oita, JP;
Kinzo Kishida, Kobe, JP;
Yoshiaki Yamauchi, Kobe, JP;
Junichi Kawabata, Tokyo, JP;
Shoji Seno, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Nagatani, Tokyo, JP;
Michio Imai, Tokyo, JP;
Yukihiro Hamada, Oita, JP;
Kazumitu Watanabe, Oita, JP;
NEUBREX CO., LTD., Kobe, JP;
Abstract
A distributed position detection rope includes: basic optical elements each including an optical fiber, tensile strength bodies, and a sheath material and the tensile strength bodies; a cylindrical inner sheath layer having a first optical element formed by arranging a plurality of the basic optical elements which are arranged at positions on the same circle and are helically wound at a predetermined pitch along the axial direction of the axis; and a cylindrical outer sheath layer on the outer side of the inner sheath layer and having a second optical element which are arranged at positions on the same circle and are helically wound along the axial direction so as to have a placement angle different from that of the basic optical elements of the first optical element.