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US 2021/0187455 A1Published application
Kneading method
AssigneeChuo University
InventorsTaro NAKAMURA, Yasuyuki YAMADA, Hiroto HABU, Akihiro IWASAKI
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Abstract
A kneading method for kneading a mixture by repetitively forming a compressed space that is formed by an expanding-contracting body of a segment in an open state and an expanding-contracting body of a segment in a closed state adjacent to the segment in the open state and filled with the mixture in a compressed state pressed by the expanding-contracting body, by changing a combination of an operation state of each of the plurality of segments.
Claims11
A kneading method for kneading a mixture using a kneading apparatus,
- wherein the kneading apparatus includes a plurality of segments that are continuously arranged,
- each of the plurality of segments has a cylindrical expanding-contracting body,
- an operation state of each of the plurality of segments can be switched between a closed state in which the expanding-contracting body is deformed expanding inward to substantially seal an inner side of the expanding-contracting body and an open state in which the expanding-contracting body is deformed outward from the closed state, and
- the mixture is kneaded by repetitively forming a compressed space that is formed at least by an expanding-contracting body of a segment in the open state and an expanding-contracting body of a segment in the closed state adjacent to the segment in the open state, substantially sealed, and filled with the mixture in a compressed state pressed by the expanding-contracting body, by changing a combination of the operation state of each of the plurality of segments.
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