Sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYoshiyuki NAGAI, Hiroshi TANAKA
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Abstract
A sheet manufacturing apparatus having a compactly configurable heating/compressing unit that heats and compresses material efficiently. A sheet manufacturing apparatus having a heating/compressing unit configured to form a sheet by heating and compressing material including fiber and resin, the heating/compressing unit including a first rotating body that rotates, and a second rotating body that rotates in contact with the first rotating body, and holding, heating, and compressing material by the first rotating body and the second rotating body; and the sheet manufacturing apparatus including a heating unit that heats the outside surface of at least one of the first rotating body and second rotating body.
Claims22
A sheet manufacturing apparatus having a heating/compressing unit configured to heat and compress material including fiber and resin and form a sheet,
- the heating/compressing unit including a first rotating body that rotates, and a second rotating body that rotates in contact with the first rotating body,
- the sheet manufacturing apparatus holding, heating, and compressing the material by the first rotating body and the second rotating body;
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- comprising a heating unit that heats the outside surface of at least one of the first rotating body and second rotating body.
A sheet manufacturing apparatus configured to form a sheet by heating and compressing material containing fiber and resin, comprising:
- a roller pair including a first roller and a second roller with greater thermal conductivity than the first roller for holding, heating, and compressing material by the first roller and second roller;
- a heating unit for heating the outside surface of the first roller;
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- a control unit for controlling the temperature of the heating unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.