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US 9,920,478 B2Granted
Sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsYoshiaki Murayama, Nobuhito Takahashi, Seiichi Taniguchi
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Abstract
A sheet manufacturing apparatus according to the invention includes: a manufacturing unit which manufactures a sheet; a supplying unit which supplies a mounted material mounted thereon to the manufacturing unit; and a determination unit which determines whether or not to initiate manufacturing of the sheet in a state where the mounted material is mounted on the supplying unit.
Claims12
A sheet manufacturing apparatus, comprising:
- a manufacturing unit configured to manufacture a sheet of paper from a raw material;
- a supplying unit configured to supply a raw material mounted thereon to the manufacturing unit;
- a first sensor configured to detect whether or not the raw material is mounted;
- and
- a second sensor configured to detect whether or not an amount of the mounted raw material is equal to or less than a ratio set in advance with respect to a maximum mounting amount of the supplying unit when the first sensor detects that the raw material is mounted;
- wherein when the first sensor detects that the raw material is not mounted, a manufacturing of the sheet is not started, and
- wherein when the first sensor detects that the raw material is mounted and the second sensor detects that the amount of the mounted raw material is not equal to or less than the ratio set in advance with respect to the maximum mounting amount of the supplying unit, the manufacturing of the sheet is started.
4 more elements
A sheet manufacturing method, comprising:
- detecting a presence or absence of the raw material mounted thereon by a first sensor;
- detecting that an amount of the mounted raw material is not equal to or less than a ratio set in advance with respect to a maximum mounting amount of the supplying unit when the first sensor detects the presence of the mounted raw material;
- determining whether or not to initiate manufacturing of a sheet of paper using the raw material by a determination unit in a state where the raw material is mounted on a supplying unit;
- supplying the mounted raw material to a manufacturing unit from the supplying unit;
- initiating manufacturing of the sheet;
- and
- manufacturing the sheet by using the supplied raw material.
4 more elements
A sheet manufacturing apparatus, comprising:
- a manufacturing unit configured to manufacture a sheet;
- a supplying unit configured to supply a raw material mounted thereon to the manufacturing unit;
- a first sensor configured to detect a presence or absence of the mounted raw material;
- and
- a second sensor configured to detect whether or not an amount of the mounted raw material is equal to or less than a ratio set in advance with respect to a maximum mounting amount of the supplying unit when the first sensor detects the presence of the raw material;
- and
- a command unit configured to initiate manufacturing of the sheet based on a detection result of the second sensor in a state where the raw material is mounted on the supplying unit,
- wherein there is a case where the mounted raw material is not supplied when a command to initiate manufacturing is received from the command unit in a state where the mounted raw material is mounted on the supplying unit.
5 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.