US 12,095,243 B2
Supporting member, conduit supporting device, and processing apparatus provided therewith
Daiki Hiraoka, Ibaraki (JP); Hiroshi Takeuchi, Ibaraki (JP); Yasuhiro Misu, Ibaraki (JP); and Tetsuya Hirose, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to JUNKOSHA INC., Ibaraki (JP)
Filed by JUNKOSHA INC., Ibaraki (JP)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/211,931.
Application 18/211,931 is a continuation of application No. 17/699,841, filed on Mar. 21, 2022, granted, now 11,721,966.
Application 17/699,841 is a continuation of application No. 16/962,969, granted, now 11,329,470, issued on May 10, 2022, previously published as PCT/JP2019/001566, filed on Jan. 18, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-007699 (JP), filed on Jan. 19, 2018; and application No. 2018-196305 (JP), filed on Oct. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0335982 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H02G 11/00 (2006.01); F16G 13/16 (2006.01); F16L 3/00 (2006.01); F16L 3/26 (2006.01); H02G 3/04 (2006.01)
CPC H02G 11/006 (2013.01) [F16G 13/16 (2013.01); H02G 3/0475 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A supporting member comprising:
an elastic member having a first surface and extending in a first direction; and
a plurality of block members fixed onto the first surface of the elastic member and arranged along the first direction, wherein
each of the plurality of block members has a bottom surface facing the first surface of the elastic member, an upper surface which is a surface opposite to the bottom surface, a first end surface intersecting with the first direction, and a second end surface which is a surface opposite to the first end surface,
the plurality of block members comprises a first block member and a second block member, and the supporting member is deformable, from a first shape in which the first end surface of the first block member and the second end surface of the second block member are in contact with each other, into a second shape in which the first end surface of the first block member and the second end surface of the second block member are separated from each other and the supporting member is curved in a direction so that the first surface of the elastic member is at an outer side,
the supporting member further comprises a high rigidity layer on the upper surface of each of the first block member and the second block member so that the high rigidity layer extends from the first end surface to the second end surface of each of the first block member and the second block member,
the high rigidity layer comprises a part formed by bending a metal plate, and
each of the first block member and the second block member has, as viewed from the first direction, a quadrangular shape defined by three sides formed by bending the metal plate and one side made from the elastic member.