Junkosha Inc.

Yasuhiro Misu

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Daiki Hiraoka

Tetsuya Hirose

Akira Kubota

The present invention provides a conduit support device having high reliability even under severe conditions. A conduit support including a conduit, a support member configured to extend along a longitudinal direction of the conduit, and integrally support the conduit, and be capable of being bent at an arbitrary position in the longitudinal direction, and an accommodation member within which the conduit and the support member are stored, wherein an intermediate member is arranged between the support member and the accommodation member is provided.

Conduit support device

There is provided a supporting member having excellent durability and an apparatus including the supporting member. The supporting member includes an elastic member and a plurality of block members formed thereon. The supporting member is deformable from a shape in which end surfaces of the block members are in contact with each other to a shape in which the end surfaces are separated from each other. The elastic member includes a fixed region whose deformation is restricted by being fixed to a bottom surface of the block member, and the supporting member includes a flexure reduction unit for reducing flexure at a position near the fixed region of the elastic member.

Supporting member, conduit supporting device, and processing apparatus provided therewith

An object of the invention is to provide a cable support member having high durability and excellent manufacturing performance. A cable support member of the invention includes: a plurality of holding members; and an elastic member. Each holding member has an elastic member insertion passage through which the elastic member is inserted, and has joint surfaces enabling a rotation of the holding member with coming into contact with the adjacent holding members at both sides in the longitudinal direction. The elastic member is inserted through the elastic member insertion passages in the holding members so as to align and maintain the holding members, and exerts a compression force on the holding members. With such a configuration, a neutral state where the cable support member is substantially in a linear fashion and a curved state where the cable support member is bending-deformed are obtainable.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Yasuhiro Misu