Patent ID: 6286740
Filing Date: 2001-09-11
Classification: H02G

Abstract:
An apparatus for a linearly-traveling mechanism comprising a movable section reciprocating along traveling guides and supplying-cables/hoses, which is guided and held by a flexible support member, for supplying one or more of energy, at least one signal, and at least one material to or from a non-moving section and the movable section, wherein the supplying-cables/hoses are extended along the support member, and slidably wrapped by a protective material while smoothly sliding along the support member without separating therefrom, and, the support member is composed of a band-shaped solid member formed to an arc-shape which is curved in a lateral direction with one end of the support member fixed to the movable section and the other end thereof fixed to the non-moving section and travels while forming parallel portions which are parallel with the fixed portion of the movable section and the fixed portion of the non-moving section and a curved portion having an approximately constant radius of curvature with the convex direction of the lateral-arc-shaped portion facing inward.