Patent ID: 9163698
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: F16G,H02G

Abstract:
1. A flexible protective guide internally holding elongated members that include at least one of a flexible cable and a flexible duct, the protective guide comprising: a flexible strip-shaped base made of a synthetic resin and formed into an elongated plate shape having a longitudinal direction along which the guide is allowed to move; and a plurality of flexible sectioning members made of the synthetic resin and integrally formed with the flexible strip-shaped base, the flexible sectioning members being provided with side walls and ceilings which cooperatively define a space together with the strip-shaped base, the side walls of each of the flexible sectioning members rising respectively from both lateral side ends of the snip-shaped base, the lateral side ends being located in the lateral direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the ceiling of each of the flexible sectioning members bridging the side walls of each of the flexible sectioning members such that the ceiling is opposed to the strip-shaped base with the space left between the ceiling and the strip-shaped base, the side walls and the ceilings of the flexible sectioning members being separated from one another by slits in the longitudinal direction, the elongated members being accommodated in the space, wherein: the strip-shaped base is formed to have a cross section perpendicularly crossing the longitudinal direction, the strip-shaped base being (1) curved to project toward the space in the cross section when the guide moves along a linear path in the longitudinal direction and (2) deformed to be flattened when the guide moves along a curved path in the longitudinal direction.