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US 9,315,941 B2Granted
Sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKatsuhito Gomi, Masahide Nakamura, Yuki Yamamoto
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Abstract
A sheet manufacturing apparatus is provided with a defibrating unit configured to defibrate a defibration object in the atmosphere, a mixing unit configured to mix additive agents including resin into a defibrated material, a moisture-adjusting unit configured to adjust moisture in a mixture of the defibrated material and the additive agents, and a heating unit configured to heat the moisture-adjusted mixture.
Claims7
A sheet manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- a defibrating unit configured to defibrate a defibration object in the atmosphere;
- a mixing unit configured to mix, in the atmosphere, additive agents including resin into a defibrated material that has been defibrated by the defibrating unit;
- a moisture-adjusting unit configured to adjust moisture in a mixture of the defibrated material and the additive agents, which has come out from the mixing unit;
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- a heating unit configured to heat the mixture that has been moisture-adjusted by the moisture-adjusting unit.
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