Sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYoshiyuki Nagai, Takao Mikoshiba
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Abstract
The sheet manufacturing apparatus includes an accumulation unit that accumulates a material containing a fiber and a resin; a heating unit that includes a first rotating body and a second rotating body and heats a sediment accumulated by the accumulation unit; a displacement mechanism that displaces the heating unit to a first position where the first rotating body and second rotating body nip and heat the sediment and a second position where the first rotating body and the second rotating body are separated from each other; and a controller that displaces the first rotating body and the second rotating body to the first position after heating the first rotating body and the second rotating body in the second position.
Claims6
A sheet manufacturing apparatus which manufactures a sheet by using a raw material containing a fiber, the apparatus comprising:
- an accumulation unit that accumulates a material containing a fiber and a resin;
- a heating unit that includes a first rotating body and a second rotating body, and heats a sediment of the material accumulated by the accumulation unit to form the sheet;
- a displacement mechanism that displaces the heating unit to a first position where the first rotating body and second rotating body nip and heat the sediment of the material and a second position where the first rotating body and the second rotating body are spaced apart from each other;
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- a controller that is electrically connected to the displacement mechanism and controls the displacement mechanism to displace the first rotating body and the second rotating body to the first position after controlling the heating unit to heat the first rotating body and the second rotating body in the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.