Seiko Epson Corporation

Fuji Electric Imaging Device Co., Ltd.

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Fuji Electric Imaging Devices Co., Ltd.

Yoshihiro Ueno

Masahiro Oki

Katsutoshi Terashima

Shunichi Seki

Tadashi Furuhata

Kenichi Ohkura

Hiroki Kurata

Shoji Shima

Masami Kuroda

Takumi Sago

Nobuyuki Sekine

Akio Takamoto

Naotaka Higuchi

Shigemi Wakabayashi

Tsutomu Teraoka

Motofumi Shiraiwa

Mitsuhiko Maejima

Shinji Takahashi

Ken Ikuma

Tetsuya Aoyama

Kaneo Yoda

Kiyoshi Tsujino

Shinichi Kato

Seiichi Taniguchi

Takashi Teshima

Masahiko Nakazawa

Shogo Nakada

Seishi Terasaki

Shinichi Omokawa

Kenichi Numakura

Kenji Kawate

A fibrous body manufacturing method includes: a first supplying step of supplying a first raw material containing a first fiber group; a second supplying step of supplying a second raw material containing a second fiber group and a binder, the second fiber group having a length-average fiber length not less than a length-average fiber length of the first fiber group, the binder being configured to bond fibers together; a forming step of forming a first deposited material by depositing a first mixed material containing the first raw material and the second raw material; and a bonding step of bonding first fibers of the first fiber group and second fibers of the second fiber group that are contained in the first deposited material together using the binder to form a first fibrous body.

Fibrous body manufacturing method and fibrous body manufacturing apparatus

A method for defibrating a fiber body includes: a supply step of supplying a liquid to a fiber body containing fibers; and a defibrating step of defibrating the fiber body to which the liquid is supplied, and in the supply step, the liquid is supplied to the fiber body so that a rate in tensile strength of the fiber body immediately before defibrated in the defibrating step to the fiber body before the liquid is supplied thereto is 60.0% or less.

Method for defibrating fiber body, defibrating device, sheet manufacturing method, and sheet manufacturing apparatus

A sheet manufacturing method includes a mixing step of mixing a fiber and a resin powder in air, and a sheet forming step of accumulating and heating a mixture mixed in the mixing step to form a sheet. The resin powder has a volume average particle diameter of equal to or less than 50 &#x3bc;m, and an absolute value of an average charging amount in a range of 5 (&#x3bc;C/g) to 40 (&#x3bc;C/g).

Sheet manufacturing method

A sheet forming binder includes a first powder and a second powder having a larger volume average particle size than the first powder. The proportion of the first powder is 10.0% by mass or more relative to the total mass of the first powder and the second powder.

Sheet forming binder, container, sheet forming apparatus, sheet forming method, and powder set

The sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a fibrillating unit that fibrillates a raw material including fibers in a gas, an additive supply unit that supplies an additive, a mixing unit including a first rotating unit that mixes a fibrillated matter fibrillated by the fibrillating unit and the additive supplied by the additive supply unit, a depositing unit that deposits a mixture mixed by the mixing unit, a web forming unit including a mesh belt that transports a deposited material deposited by the depositing unit and a suction mechanism that sucks the deposited material to the mesh belt, and a control unit that changes granularity of a surface of the sheet by controlling at least one of a supply amount per unit time from the additive supply unit, a rotation velocity of the first rotating unit of the mixing unit, and a suction force of the suction mechanism.

Sheet manufacturing apparatus, control method thereof, and sheet manufacturing method

A sheet fabrication apparatus includes: a fiber separation unit that micronizes an ingredient; a first sensor unit that measures a temperature in a first space including the fiber separation unit; a first air conditioning unit that adjusts the temperature in the first space; a fabrication unit that works the fiber separated articles obtained by micronizing the ingredient by the fiber separation unit; a second sensor unit that measures at least either a temperature or a humidity at a mounting position of the fabrication unit; and a control unit that controls the first air conditioning unit on the basis of at least any of measurement results of the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit.

Fiber ingredient reproduction apparatus and fiber ingredient reproduction method

A composite integrally includes a resin and a coagulation inhibitor, and is used to be mixed with fibers. The composite is a powder whose volume average particle diameter is 1 &#x3bc;m or more to 100 &#x3bc;m or less, and at least a portion of the coagulation inhibitor is arranged in a surface of the composite.

Sheet manufacturing apparatus, composite manufacturing method, sheet, and composite

Provided are a binder useful for making sheets processed to effectively prevent misfeeds, a sheet manufacturing apparatus capable of desirably manufacturing sheets processed to effectively prevent misfeeds, a sheet manufacturing method, and a sheet processed to effectively prevent misfeeds. The binder for binding fiber to make sheets includes resin; and polyhydric alcohol that is a solid at room temperature and changes to liquid phase when heated. The content of polyhydric alcohol to 100 parts by weight resin is greater than or equal to 0.1 parts by weight and less than or equal to 20 parts by weight polyhydric alcohol.

Binder, sheet manufacturing apparatus, sheet manufacturing method, and sheet

A sheet manufacturing apparatus according to the invention has a mixing unit that mixes fiber and resin powder in air; and a sheet forming unit that forms a sheet by laying and heating the mixture mixed by the mixing unit; the grindability index of the resin contained in the resin powder being 0.8 or less.

Sheet manufacturing apparatus, sheet manufacturing method, resin powder, and sheet

A sheet for a laser printer includes a plurality of fibers, and a binding agent for binding the plurality of fibers, in which an abundance of the binding agent on a surface of the sheet is smaller than an abundance of the binding agent in a center in a thickness direction of the sheet.

Sheet, sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method

An ink billing system is used between a client company Xthat prints information and a printer manufacturer that supplies ink cartridges (or toner) to company X. Company Xhas a main server, a plurality of in-store serversin communication with the main server, and a plurality of inkjet (or laser) printerseach having an ink cartridge(or toner) for printing according to commands from the in-store server. When billing company Xbased on the number of ink shots (or drum charging time) used by the printersand stored on the main server, the terminal deviceof the printer manufacturer changes the billing rate per unit of ink according to the ink shot count (or drum charging time).

Ink billing system with changeable billing rate table

A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a mixing unit and a forming unit. The mixing unit is configured to mix fibers and a composite, where a resin and a wax are integrally combined, in air. The forming unit is configured to form a sheet by depositing and heating a mixed material where the fibers and the composite are mixed.

Sheet manufacturing apparatus, sheet manufacturing method, sheet manufactured using sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method, and composite and container used in sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method

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 &#x3bc;C/g or higher.

Sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method

A printing devicehas a print unitthat prints; a storage unitthat stores identification information; and a communication unitthat wirelessly transmits a position correction signal Sincluding identification information stored in the storage unit

Processing system and pos system

A first printerhas a connection unit to which data is input and which outputs print data based on the input data; a first printer print unitthat prints; a detection unitB that detects if the input printing result contains an error when the printing result of the print data output from the connection unit is input; a reprint storage unitA that stores print data when the detection unitB detects an error; and a reprint control unitF that outputs print data stored in the reprint storage unitA from the connection unit when a predetermined specific condition is met.

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Nagano, Japan

Yoshihiro Ueno