Patent ID: 7428808
Filing Date: 2008-09-30
Classification: F16G,H02G

Abstract:
1. A cable protection and guide device, comprising: a plurality of pairs of right and left spaced side plates and a plurality of connecting plates; said side plates are articulately connected to each other in a longitudinal direction enabling said side plates to form a flexional circumferential bend having a flexional inner circumferential side and flexional outer circumferential side; each of said side plates includes a flexional inner circumferential side residing during bending on said flexional inner circumferential side of said bend; each of said side plates includes an outer circumferential side residing during bending on said outer flexional circumferential side of said bend; each of said side plates is integrally formed of a front side plate portion, a rear side plate portion, and, a flexible coupling portion intervened between said front side plate portion and said rear side plate portion; each side of said pair of right and left spaced side plates is connected in a longitudinal direction by a snap-fit mechanism, said snap-fit mechanism interengages said rear side plate portion of a preceding side plate and said front side plate portion of a subsequent side plate; pairs of said right and left spaced side plates are connected in a width direction by one of said connecting plates; said plurality of connecting plates detachably bridge said cable protection and guide device over said flexional inner circumferential sides and said flexional outer circumferential sides of said side plates in predetermined intervals; each of said connecting plates includes a body, a right end portion having a right supporting shaft extending therefrom, and a left end portion having a left supporting shaft extending therefrom; each of said supporting shafts of said connecting plates are attachably fitted into respective connecting plate engagement mechanisms of said right and left side plates which pivotably secure said connecting plates to said right and left spaced side plates; a cable accommodating space is formed by said side plates which extend in said longitudinal direction and said connecting plates which are detachably bridged in said width direction over said flexional inner circumferential sides and said flexional outer circumferential sides; and, a cable extends in said longitudinal direction within said cable accommodating space.