Patent ID: 7317160

Claim:
A cable protection and guide device in which a number of link bodies are connected to each other in a longitudinal direction, each of said link bodies includes a pair of side plates, each side plate includes an inner circumferential side and an outer circumferential side, connecting arms are bridged over said inner circumferential sides and said outer circumferential sides of said side plates in predetermined intervals such that a cable is accommodated in a cable accommodating space along the longitudinal direction, said cable being surrounded by said side plates and said connecting arms, characterized in that said side plates are integrally formed by a front side plate portion connected to a precedent side plate, a rear side plate portion connected to a subsequent side plate and a flexible coupling portion interposed between said front side plate portion and said rear side plate portion, said flexible coupling portion being integrally formed with said side plate, said front side plate portion and said rear side plate portion include offset portions thereof, and said coupling portion includes a thin plate-shaped central region and base end continuous regions with gradually increasing plate thickness from said central region toward said front side plate portion and rear side plate portion respectively.