Transporting apparatus, fibrous feedstock recycling apparatus, and transporting method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorYoshiyuki Nagai
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Abstract
A transporting apparatus includes a pressurizing roller that transports a web-like or sheet-like transport target object and a heating roller disposed downstream of the pressurizing roller in a transport path, a first bottom sensor and a first top sensor that are disposed between the pressurizing roller and the heating roller, a measuring section that measures a time from when the transport target object is detected by the first bottom sensor until the transport target object is detected by the first top sensor, and a rotation control section that modifies a rotation speed of the heating roller when a time measured by the measuring section is shorter than a first reference time.
Claims12
A transporting apparatus comprising:
- a first roller that transports a web-like or sheet-like transport target object;
- and
- a second roller disposed downstream of the first roller in a transport path of the transport target object, the second roller being configured to transport the transport target object;
- a first sensor that is disposed between the first roller and the second roller along the transport path;
- a second sensor disposed adjacent to the second roller along the transport path;
- a controller configured to:
- measure a time from when the transport target object is detected by the first sensor until the transport target object is detected by the second sensor;
- and
- modify a rotation speed of the second roller when the measured time is shorter than a predetermined first reference time.
A fibrous feedstock recycling apparatus comprising:
- a forming section configured to form a web-like or sheet-like processing target object from a feedstock containing fibers;
- a processing section configured to process the processing target object;
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- a transport section configured to transport the processing target object from the forming section to the processing section,
- wherein the transport section includes:
- a first roller that transports the processing target object and a second roller configured to transport the processing target object and being disposed downstream of the first roller in a transport path of the processing target object,
- a first sensor and that is disposed between the first roller and the second roller in the transport path of the processing target object, a second sensor disposed adjacent to the second roller in the transport path;
- a controller configured to:
- measure a time from when a presence of the processing target object is detected by the first sensor until the presence the processing target object is detected by the second sensor;
- and
- modify a rotation speed of the second roller when the time measured is shorter than a predetermined first reference time.
A transporting method of transporting a web-like or sheet-like transport target object using a first roller that transports the transport target object and a second roller disposed downstream of the first roller in a transport path of the transport target object in which a first sensor is disposed between the first roller and the second roller and a second sensor is disposed adjacent to the second roller along the transport path, the method comprising:
- a first step of measuring a time from when a presence of the transport target object is detected by the first sensor until the presence of the transport target object is detected by the second sensor;
- and
- a second step of modifying a rotation speed of the second roller when the time measured in the first step is shorter than a predetermined first reference time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.