Patent ID: 6941974
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: F16G,F16L,H02G

Abstract:
1. A cable protection and guide device including link frame members; each said link frame member having a rectangular section and side walls; each said side wall includes a guide hole therethrough; a pair of flexible cable-shaped members; one of said flexible cable-shaped members passing through one of said guide holes formed in one of said side walls of said link frame member; the other of said flexible cable-shaped members passing through the other guide hole formed in the other of said side walls of said link frame member; wherein a cable is inserted into said link frame members to be protected and guided in a state where a number of said link frame members are articulately connected to each other by said flexible cable-shaped members characterized in that each of said guide holes being rectangular in cross-section; each of said guide holes includes an arc surface concentric with arc surfaces of guide holes located in adjacent link frame members as the cable protection and guide device curves thus reducing excess wear of said flexible cable-shaped members.