US Patent Issued to TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN on Oct. 14 for "Long object guiding device and tubular member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,480, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN Co. (Osaka, Japan).

"Long object guiding device and tubular member" was invented by Keiichi Tsukiyoshi (Osaka, Japan) and Masashi Kunii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A long object guiding device includes a long tubular member and is configured to guide a long object inserted through the tubular member while protecting, with the tubular member, the long object in correspondence with displacement of the tubular member. The tubular member has a long sheet shape in an unfolded state. A longitudinal direction of the tubular member intersects a width direction. A firs...