US 12,040,570 B2
Compact conduit for clean room applications, and casing and clamping fixtures for said conduit
Andreas Hermey, Hennef (DE); and Dominik Barten, Meckenheim (DE)
Assigned to IGUS GMBH, Cologne (DE)
Appl. No. 17/310,035
Filed by IGUS GMBH, Cologne (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/000047
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/148596, 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 2022/0228676 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. F16L 3/015 (2006.01); F16G 13/16 (2006.01); F16L 3/26 (2006.01); H01R 13/422 (2006.01); H01R 13/52 (2006.01); H01R 13/627 (2006.01); H01R 13/639 (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)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A line protective guide for lines, for a clean room application, comprising an elongate flexible encasement which is displaceable reciprocatingly with the formation of a direction-changing arc between a movable run having one end connected to a movable connection and a stationary run having one end connected to a stationary connection, and wherein the flexible encasement is closable at the ends by a respective clamping device against the escape from the flexible encasement of particles generated due to wear of lines, wherein the encasement includes at least one encasing unit which forms at least one tubular receiving means for guiding 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 a plurality of said tubular receiving means which extend parallel to each other to separately guide at least one line;
wherein the at least one encasing unit at least one receiving means has at least one functional region which extends in the longitudinal direction and which includes two closure profiles of a closure, wherein one of the closure profiles co-operates with the other closure profile for dust-tightly closing an opened state in which a line can be introduced or removed transversely relative to the longitudinal direction; and
wherein the encasement includes a one-piece encasing unit with subdivision means which forms a plurality of parallel receiving means and has at least two closure profiles in one piece with the encasing unit.