Patent ID: 6992254

Claim:
A cable protection and guide device with a large number of rectangular link frame bodies each comprising a pair of spaced right and left link plates, wherein connecting plates are bridged over a flexion inner circumferential side and a flexion outer circumferential side of said pair of spaced right and left link plates, respectively, said link frame bodies are flexibly connected to each other by connecting pins and connecting pin holes formed in said pair of spaced right and left link plates, wherein a cable is inserted into a cable accommodating space formed of said link frame bodies to guide and protect said cable, characterized in that a C-shaped flexion guide groove concentric with said connecting pin hole is provided on a plate side surface of said pair of spaced right and left link plates, and tapered V-shaped stopper surfaces are formed on end portions of said C-shaped flexion guide groove, a flexion guiding protrusion, which engages said C-shaped flexion guide groove, is provided on a plate side surface of another link plate connected to a connecting pin hole side of said pair of spaced right and left link plates so that an arc-shaped contact surface is formed on a protrusion outer circumferential portion of the flexion guiding protrusion, and said arc-shaped contact surface of said flexion guiding protrusion makes point contact with one of the V-shaped stopper surfaces of the C-shaped flexion guide groove so that flexible movement of adjacent link plates is restricted.