Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiba Battery Co., Ltd.

Toshihiko Kusago

Gen Takayama

Yoshiyuki Sakai

Shigeo Kasahara

Yasuhiro Kuroki

Tsutomu Horikoshi

Masayuki Yagi

Takeo Ito

Koji Mizunuma

Kazuta Takeno

Hiroshi Kaneko

Katsuhiko Iguchi

A first forming roll and a second forming roll are provided parallel and opposite to each other, and a double-surface formed sheet is formed by the first forming roll and the second forming roll. There are provided: phase adjusting unit configured to move the second forming roll in an axial direction of the second forming roll; an upper formed-shape detector which detects a formed shape of a front surface of the double-surface formed sheet; a lower formed-shape detector which detects a formed shape of a back surface of the double-surface formed sheet; front/back-surface phase difference arithmetic operating unit configured to compare detection signals of the upper and lower formed-shape detectors with each other, calculating a forming phase difference between the formed shapes of the front surface and back surface of the double-surface formed sheet with respect to the axial direction, and outputting a phase difference value signal indicating the forming phase difference; and phase alignment control processing unit configured to receiving the phase difference value signal, and outputting an instruction to the phase adjusting unit so that the forming phase difference can be reduced.

Forming phase alignment device in formed sheet manufacturing apparatus

A coating die is disclosed, in which a slit-like spacing 29 is formed between a pair of die elements 25, 27 arranged in opposed relation to each other. A band-shaped electrode sheet 23 is movable along the length of the spacing 29. The sides of the slit-like spacing along the width of the electrode sheet 23 are enclosed. An electrode piling agent is supplied from an external source into the die element pair 25, 27 through supply flow paths 47, 49. Discharge ports 47a, 49a of the supply flow paths 47, 49 are open to the slit-like spacing 29. The portion of the spacing 29 downstream of the discharge ports 47a, 49a in the direction of movement of the electrode sheet 23 has a thickness equivalent to the thickness of the electrode sheet 23 plus the thickness of the electrode piling agent coated on the two sides of the electrode sheet 23. The portion of the spacing 29 upstream of the discharge ports 47a, 49a has a thickness substantially equal to the thickness of the electrode sheet 23. The job of coating the electrode piling agent on the two sides of the electrode sheet can thus be performed with high accuracy.

Apparatus and method for applying a coating to a base material

Air-blowing nozzles 21 for blowing a hot air are provided in both sides of an electrode sheet 33 for a battery both surfaces of which an electrode compounding agent has been applied to. In each of the air-blowing nozzles 21, a pair of slit-shaped blowholes 65 being extended in the width direction of the electrode sheet 33 are provided on both of the upper and lower sides of the end face part 63. The hot air blown off from a pair of the upper and lower blowholes 65 dries the electrode compounding agent as well as pressurizes a space between the electrode sheet 33 and the end face part 63 to form a pressure room P, and the left and right pressure rooms P hold the electrode sheet 33 to suppress its sway.

Drying apparatus with swivel support structure for sheet direction

Drying apparatus and drying method

A plastic material, controlled at a desired temperature, is fed on an upstream side of a gap between a pair of rotating forming rolls arrayed almost in parallel and controlled at a desired temperature from a device for feeding the plastic material. The plastic material is pressed and formed into a sheet by the forming rolls therebetween while forming a bank or an accumulation of the plastic material on an upstream side of the gap of the forming rolls and is carried out on a downstream side of the gap. The bank quantity monitoring is performed by measuring a temperature of the sheet carried out through the gap of the forming rolls and estimating the quantity of the bank in accordance with measured temperature information. The sheet formation is performed by measuring a temperature of the sheet carried out through the gap of the forming rolls and controlling various forming conditions according to a measured temperature information. The sheet temperature measurement is performed by measuring a temperature of the sheet by directing said non-contacted temperature measuring means against an inner part of a wedge-shaped space formed by a surface of the sheet carried out of the gap and a surface of the forming roll facing on the surface of the sheet at a slight gap therebetween.

Bank quantity monitoring method and apparatus, sheet forming method and

A plastic material, controlled at a desired temperature, is fed on an upstream side of a gap between a pair of rotating forming rolls arrayed almost in parallel and controlled at a desired temperature from a flat die connected to an extruding machine and having a slit outflow portion. The plastic material is pressed and formed into a sheet by the forming rolls therebetween while forming a bank or an accumulation of the plastic material on an upstream side of the gap of the forming rolls and is carried out on a downstream side of the gap. The bank quantity monitoring is performed by measuring a temperature of the sheet carried out through the gap of the forming rolls and estimating the quantity of the bank in accordance with measured temperature information. The sheet formation is performed by measuring a temperature of the sheet carried out through the gap of the forming rolls and controlling various forming conditions according to a measured temperature information. The sheet temperature measurement is performed by measuring a temperature of the sheet by directing said non-contacted temperature measuring means against an inner part of a wedge-shaped space formed by a surface of the sheet carried out of the gap and a surface of the forming roll facing on the surface of the sheet at a slight gap therebetween.

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Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Toshihiko Kusago