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US 9,849,634 B2Granted
Sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorYoshihiro Ueno
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Abstract
A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a mixing unit that mixes fibers and a composite in the atmosphere, a forming unit that deposits and heats a mixture mixed by the mixing unit to form a sheet; in which the composite is resin particles with at least a portion of a surface coated by inorganic fine particles, and an absolute value of an average charging amount of the composite is 40 μC/g or higher.
Claims8
A sheet manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- a mixing unit configured to mix fibers and a composite in the atmosphere;
- and
- a forming unit configured to deposit and heat a mixture mixed by the mixing unit to form a sheet,
- wherein the composite is resin particles with at least a portion of a surface coated with inorganic fine particles, and
- an absolute value of an average charging amount of the composite is 40 μC/g or higher.
2 more elements
A sheet manufacturing method comprising:
- mixing fibers and a composite which has inorganic fine particles and a resin that are integrated, in air;
- and
- depositing, heating and forming a mixture in which the fiber and the composite are mixed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.