Seiko Epson Corporation

Light Optical Works, Ltd.

Takashi Abe

Makoto Sato

Koji Motohashi

Toshihiko Yamazaki

Toshinori Nakayama

Hirohisa Nakayama

Jun Taniguchi

Masatomi Iwanami

Kensuke Sakai

Jun Sakurada

Karen Hasebe

A fibrous body processing apparatus includes a coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a humidifying unit that generates humidified air and supplies the humidified air to the coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a weight measurement unit that measures a weight of the coarsely crushed pieces let out of the coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit; a fixed amount supplying unit that supplies a fixed amount of the coarsely crushed pieces measured by the weight measurement unit; a defibrating unit that defibrates the coarsely crushed pieces supplied from the fixed amount supplying unit; a first transportation portion through which the coarsely crushed pieces are sent from the coarsely-crushed-pieces reservoir unit to the weight measurement unit; a second transportation portion through which the coarsely crushed pieces are sent from the fixed amount supplying unit to the defibrating unit; and a generated at the humidifying unit is supplied to the defibrating unit while bypassing the weight measurement unit.

Fibrous body processing apparatus

A raw-material feeding device includes: a storage section that includes a bottom section and a side wall standing from the bottom section and that stores, in a storage space surrounded by the bottom section and the side wall, small pieces of raw material constituted by a material containing fibers; a stirring section that is provided in the bottom section at a position facing the storage space, that includes a blade which rotates about a rotational axis extending in a direction in which the side wall stands, and that stirs the raw material in the storage space by rotating the blade; a first discharging section that is provided in the side wall so as to communicate with the storage space, that includes a first tubular body rotating about a first axis intersecting the rotational axis, and that discharges, upon rotation of the first tubular body, the raw material in the storage space to a processing section; and a second discharging section that is provided in the side wall at a position different from a position at which the first tubular body is provided so as to communicate with the storage space, that includes a second tubular body rotating about a second axis intersecting the rotational axis, and that discharges, upon rotation the second tubular body, the raw material in the storage space to the processing section.

Raw-material feeding device

A storage portion includes a case which includes an internal space configured to accommodate raw material pieces having fibers, a discharge pipe coupled to a side wall of the case, and a transport motor which rotates the discharge pipe on an axis, in which one end in an axial direction of the discharge pipe communicates with the internal space and the other end has an outlet for discharging the raw material pieces, and a spiral member is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the discharge pipe.

Fiber transport apparatus

A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes: a raw material supplying section; a first coarse crushing section; a defibrating section; a deposition section; a heating and pressing section; a cutting section; and an ejection section.

Sheet manufacturing apparatus

Provided is an optical sight having a lens frame and multiple fixing members for fixing an objective lens to an inside of a barrel body. The objective lens is held on an inner peripheral surface of a lens frame. A male screw, which can be screwed into a female screw arranged on the inner peripheral surface of a barrel body, is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the lens frame. Multiple through-holes are formed at a wall section of the lens frame corresponding to the outer peripheral surface of the objective lens along a circumferential direction of the wall section. The fixing member is made of metal or synthetic resin having a hardness lower than that of the barrel body. An assembly including the objective lens, the lens frame, and the fixing members is screwed into the female screw arranged on the inner peripheral surface of the barrel body.

Optical sight

A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a case that accommodates raw material pieces including fibers, a rotator that rotates inside the case to stir the raw material pieces, a stirring motor that rotates the rotator, a transport apparatus that transports the raw material pieces through a transport path coupled to a side wall of the case, and a control apparatus that controls rotation states of the rotator and the transport apparatus, in which the transport apparatus includes a discharge pipe that rotates on a central axis along the transport path, and a transport motor that rotates the discharge pipe.

Fiber transport apparatus and fiber transport method

A compact dot sight is provided, in which the inner cylinder is eliminated and no structure protrudes from the left and right side walls of a lens barrel. The dot sight includes: a lens barrel; objective lenses fixed to a front opening of the lens barrel; an eyepiece lens fixed to a rear opening of the lens barrel; a light source for projecting a point image from an inside of the lens barrel to the objective lens; a power supply circuit for supplying power to the light source; and a dot adjustment mechanism that has a holder of the light source and can adjust the position of the point image projected on the objective lens by moving the holder vertically and horizontally.

Dot sight

A small piece supplying apparatus includes: a raw material supplying section that supplies a raw material sheet; a coarse crushing section that coarsely crushes the raw material sheet supplied from the raw material supplying section to produce small pieces; and a reservoir section in which the small pieces produced by the coarse crushing section are accumulated. The raw material supplying section includes a feeder roller that feeds out the raw material sheet, and a contact section that changes a course of the raw material sheet by contact with an edge of the raw material sheet fed out by the feeder roller.

Small piece supplying apparatus and fibrous body molding apparatus

A stirring apparatus includes a case that houses fiber pieces containing fibers, and a rotary body that is disposed inside the case and that stirs the fiber pieces, in which the rotary body includes a rotary portion that forms a portion of a bottom surface of the case and that rotates, and blades that stand upright on the rotary portion.

Stirring apparatus

A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a sheet forming portion that forms a sheet using a material including fibers, a transport portion that transports the sheet, a cutting portion that cuts one edge portion and the other edge portion of the sheet positioned in a direction intersecting a transport direction of the sheet, a first coarse crushing portion that coarsely crushes a first surplus portion generated by cutting the one edge portion by the cutting portion, and a second coarse crushing portion that coarsely crushes a second surplus portion generated by cutting the other edge portion by the cutting portion.

The invention provides a temperature characteristic compensation apparatus that correct temperature characteristics of control circuits using thermal sensors into linear or optional temperature gradients to guarantee correct and stable operations thereof. It is equipped with a temperature characteristic compensation apparatus, that can include: a constant current source in which a plurality of constant current paths that include the constant current path having a first resistance being interposed therein, which compose current mirror circuits in multiple stages, a band gap circuit formed from a pair of transistors that are connected to the constant current paths, respectively, and a voltage follower circuit, including the aforementioned constant current source and the band gap circuit that provide a reference voltage, which supplies the reference voltage at a low impedance. The ratio between the first and second resistances can be freely selected in connection with the ratio between emitter areas of the pair of transistors (the size ratio of the two transistors), such that a gradient of temperature coefficient of the output voltage can be flexibly set.

Temperature characteristic compensation apparatus

A first semiconductor chip is mounted on a substrate on which an interconnect pattern is formed, and a surface of the first semiconductor chip having electrodes faces the substrate. A second semiconductor chip is mounted on the first semiconductor chip. Electrodes of the second semiconductor chip are electrically connected to the interconnect pattern by wires. A first resin is provided between the first semiconductor chip and the substrate, and a second resin which differs from the first resin seals the first and second semiconductor chips.

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Yamagata, Japan

Takashi Abe