IP Library Granted Patent US 8,943,789
Granted Patent B2
US 8,943,789 · App. 13/892,067 · Granted Feb 3, 2015

Hybrid core rope

Inventors: Jun Takeuchi (Tokyo, JP); Kaori Ichikawa (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Tokyo Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,943,789
App. No.
13/892,067
Granted
Feb 3, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention is to provide a hybrid core rope which does not require maintenance or a hybrid core rope capable of reducing a maintenance task. The hybrid core rope includes a resin solid core in which a plurality of spiral grooves is formed in the longitudinal direction on an outer peripheral surface thereof, a plurality of fiber bundles respectively spirally wound around the outer peripheral surface of the resin solid core along the plurality of spiral grooves, the fiber bundles having thickness to fill the spiral grooves, and a plurality of steel strands spirally wound around the outer peripheral surface of the resin solid core around which the fiber bundles are wound. The fiber bundles and the strands are respectively wound so as to have angles which are not parallel to each other.

Claims (21)

1. A hybrid core rope, comprising:

a resin solid core in which a plurality of spiral grooves is formed in a longitudinal direction on an outer peripheral surface of the resin solid core in advance;

a plurality of fiber bundles respectively spirally wound around the outer peripheral surface of the resin solid core along the plurality of spiral grooves, the fiber bundles having thickness to fill the spiral grooves; and

a plurality of steel strands spirally wound around the outer peripheral surface of the resin solid core around which the fiber bundles are wound,

wherein the fiber bundles and the strands are respectively wound so as to have angles which are not parallel to each other, and

wherein the plurality of strands is in contact with the fiber bundles at a certain position in the longitudinal direction and in contact with the resin solid core at another position.

2. The hybrid core rope according to claim 1 , wherein an angle made by the fiber bundles and the strands is within a range from 20 degrees to 160 degrees.

3. The hybrid core rope according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio between a section area of the resin solid core and a section area of a sum of the plurality of fiber bundles, as resin solid core : fiber bundles, is within a range from 80:20 to 40:60.

4. The hybrid core rope according to claim 1 , wherein a reinforcing material is provided in the resin solid core.

5. The hybrid core rope according to claim 1 , wherein the strands are other than continuously in contact with only the fiber bundles.

6. The hybrid core rope according to claim 5 , wherein the strands are further other than continuously in contact with only the resin solid core.

7. The hybrid core rope according to claim 1 , wherein the strands abut the fiber bundles at the certain position in the longitudinal direction.

8. The hybrid core rope according to claim 7 , wherein the strands further abut the resin solid core at said another position in the longitudinal direction.

9. The hybrid core rope according to claim 1 , wherein the certain position comprises:

a first position that the plurality of strands is in contact with the fiber bundles; and

a second position that the plurality of strands is in contact with the fiber bundles, in a cross-sectional view of the hybrid core rope, the second position being spaced apart the first position.

10. The hybrid core rope according to claim 9 , wherein, in the cross-sectional view of the hybrid core rope, said another position is located between the first position and the second position on the outer peripheral surface of the resin solid core.

11. The hybrid core rope according to claim 1 , wherein, in a cross-sectional view of the hybrid core rope, at the certain position, the fiber bundles spaces apart the strands from the resin solid core.

12. The hybrid core rope according to claim 1 , wherein, in a cross-sectional view of the hybrid core rope, at the certain position, the fiber bundles is disposed between the strands and the resin solid core.

13. The hybrid core rope according to claim 1 , wherein, in a cross-sectional view of the hybrid core rope, the outer peripheral surface of the resin solid core comprises a surface that extends between two adjacent grooves of the plurality of spiral grooves.

14. The hybrid core rope according to claim 13 , wherein the certain position is located on the surface of the resin solid core extending between the two adjacent grooves.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 13, 2013
From: TAKEUCHI, JUN; ICHIKAWA, KAORI
To: TOKYO ROPE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-124521 · May 31, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20130318937A1 · Dec 5, 2013