US 11,811,154 B2
Compact protective cable conduit for clean room applications and encasing unit and arrangement with support chain for same
Andreas Hermey, Hennef (DE); and Dominik Barten, Meckenheim (DE)
Assigned to IGUS GMBH, Cologne (DE)
Appl. No. 17/310,061
Filed by IGUS GMBH, Cologne (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/050842
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/148300, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 20 2019 100 169.0 (DE), filed on Jan. 14, 2019; and application No. 20 2019 103 276.6 (DE), filed on Jun. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0149556 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. F16L 3/015 (2006.01); H01R 13/422 (2006.01); H01R 13/52 (2006.01); H01R 13/627 (2006.01); H01R 13/639 (2006.01); F16G 13/16 (2006.01); F16L 3/26 (2006.01); H02G 3/04 (2006.01); H02G 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/422 (2013.01) [F16G 13/16 (2013.01); F16L 3/015 (2013.01); F16L 3/26 (2013.01); H01R 13/52 (2013.01); H01R 13/6271 (2013.01); H01R 13/639 (2013.01); H02G 3/0462 (2013.01); H02G 11/006 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A line protective guide to guide at least one line of a clean room application, comprising:
an elongate flexible encasement which is reciprocatingly displaceable, with a formation of a direction-changing arc between two runs, and having at least one receiving means to guide at least one line;
wherein each receiving means extends channel-like in a longitudinal direction from a first end to a second end;
wherein the encasement has at least one encasing unit forming the at least one receiving means;
wherein the encasing unit includes a first fixing strip at one longitudinal side and a second fixing strip at another longitudinal side;
wherein the first and the second fixing strips are arranged in opposite relationship and configured to be connectable to each other with a releasable connection by positively-locking engagement and/or force-locking engagement in mutually matching relationship and in a joining direction transversely to the longitudinal direction to releasably fix together a plurality of encasing units with mutually matching first and second fixing strips by connection of the first and the second fixing strips in the joining direction transversely to the longitudinal direction; and
wherein the first and the second fixing strips are respectively in one-piece with the encasing unit.