Patent ID: 7513097

Claim:
A cable protection and guide device, comprising: a plurality of pairs of right and left spaced side plates articulately connected to each other in a longitudinal direction from a mounting fixed end to a mounting movable end 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; connecting arms are respectively bridged over a flexional inner circumferential side and a flexional outer circumferential side of said side plate portions at predetermined intervals; a cable accommodating space surrounded by said side plate portions and said connecting arms extending from said mounting fixed end toward said mounting movable end; a cable is accommodated in said cable accommodating space; said plurality of side plate portions are integrally molded to form a connected link module; said integrally molded connected link modules include coupling portions interconnecting said side plate portions; said cable protection and guide device includes stopper links; said coupling portions and said stopper links include a snap-fit mechanism; said snap-fit mechanism interengaging said said stopper links and said respective coupling portion of said connected link module from said cable accommodating space side; and, each of said connecting arms is affixed to said stopper link.