Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

Yoshinori Kuroda

Katsunori Takahashi

Masahiko Kashiwa

Tsugushi Fukui

Tatsuya Tanaka

Shigehiro Kasai

Kimio Inoue

Hiroshi Ueda

Kazuo Yamaguchi

Yasuaki Yamane

Koichi Miyake

Hideo Funahashi

Shin Hotani

Takaya Uda

Akira Nishiyama

Kazuo Iritani

Sayaka Yamada

Shin Iwasaki

Masashi Konno

Taiji Orimo

Kazuyoshi Imuta

Shoji Yasuda

Yoshimitsu Tanaka

Kayoko Minami

Satoshi Abe

Shinichi Asagiri

Tatsuo Gennai

A method for reducing gel in a polymer kneaded compound flowing in a polymer flow duct includes flowing a polymer kneaded compound in a polymer flow duct to a gel reduction mechanism including a gel reduction member having one or more through holes defining a squeezing flow path having a flow path cross-sectional area smaller than the polymer flow duct. The squeeze ratio S1/S2 of the squeezing flow path is 25 to 177.8, where S1 is a flow path cross-sectional area of the polymer flow duct and S2 is a sum total of flow path cross-sectional area of the squeezing flow path, to generate an extensional flow in the kneaded compound.

Gel reduction method

A continuous mixer includes a barrel with a hollow interior, and a pair of mixing rotors housed in the barrel and that rotate in mutually different directions, each mixing rotor including a mixing portion with plural mixing flights formed about an axial center of the mixing rotor and projecting radially outward. The mixing rotors have a center distance therebetween smaller than a rotation outer diameter of each of the respective mixing flights. An inter-rotor clearance, which is the smallest clearance between the mixing portions at each rotation phase of the mixing rotors in a cross section perpendicular to axial directions of the both mixing rotors, has a dimension allowing an extensional flow to be generated in a material passing through the inter-rotor clearance. The continuous mixer can reliably and efficiently mix a material having a large viscosity difference between a dispersed phase and a matrix phase.

Continuous twin-screw mixer and mixing method

A continuous kneading device including a pair of kneading rotors, capable of increasing mesh between the kneading rotors while also suppressing a kneading load applied to the kneading rotors. The continuous kneading device including a barrel and a pair of kneading rotors housed in the barrel. The kneading rotors rotate in mesh in directions different from each other. Each kneading rotor includes a plurality of kneading flights for kneading a material supplied into the barrel. The material is fed axially from the upstream kneading section to the downstream kneading section to be sequentially kneaded. The kneading flight constituting the downstream kneading section has a rotational outer diameter larger than a rotational outer diameter of the kneading flight constituting the upstream kneading section.

Continuous kneading device

The present invention provides kneading/extruding equipment capable of stable operation by keeping the pressure of kneaded material before a first-stage gear pump in steady operation (molding) and preventing fluctuation of the pressure of kneaded material before the first-stage gear pump constant from largely affecting the pressure of kneaded material before a latter-stage gear pump at start-up or upon change of production rate, and thus capable of responding to an increase in production rate while securing a high-quality molded product, and an operation control method thereof. The kneading/extruding equipment comprises: a rotational speed feedback control unit for a first gear pump, which feedback-controls the rotational speed of the first gear pump, and a rotational speed feedforward control unit for a second gear pump, which feedforward-controls the rotational speed of the second gear pump.

Kneading/extruding equipment with feedforward control of latter stage pump

A mixing degree adjusting device comprises a pair of spacer members arranged at a position sandwiching both round sectional portions of a pair of screws from both sides in the aligning direction of the pair of screws, and a pair of drawing members arranged as a position sandwiching both the round sectional portions from both sides in the orthogonal direction that is orthogonal to the aligning direction. The spacer members are movable between an adjusting position opposing to the round sectional portions, and a retracting position, when the screws are extracted from the barrel, for retracting to the outside until the passage of the screws is accepted. Opposing portions opposing to the round sectional portions at the time of moving to the adjusting position are formed in a substantially linear shape extending in parallel with the orthogonal direction seen from the axial direction of the screws. The drawing members are movable in the direction approaching to and retracting from the round sectional portions along the opposing portions in an area intervening between the opposing portions of both the spacer members at the time of moving to the adjusting position, and when the screws are extracted from the barrel, retractable to the outside until the passage of the screws is accepted.

Intermeshing type twin screw extruder and mixing degree adjusting device

In a knife used in an underwater cutting granulating device for cutting and granulating a fused resin extruded from a die to a water chamber by a cutter rotated in the state where the knife is opposed to the die, the knife of the cutter has a convex guide surface for guiding a water flow in the direction of drawing it toward the die, which is formed on the surface opposite to the surface facing the die and a curved concave guide surface on the side facing the die.

Underwater cutting granulating device

A continuous kneader is disclosed wherein rotors each having a material feed section and a kneading section on the outer peripheral surface thereof are inserted rotatably into a chamber while being supported at both axial ends thereof, the said chamber having a material supply port at one end portion thereof, a discharge section is formed at an end portion of each rotor opposite to the material supply side for scraping out the material after kneaded by the rotor radially outwards of the rotor, and a discharge port for discharging the kneaded material thus scraped out in the discharge section of each rotor to the exterior of the chamber is formed in the opposite end portion of the chamber so as to be open radially outwards of the rotor, the discharge section of each rotor having on its outer peripheral surface a twist flight which is inclined in a direction of extruding the kneaded material to the opposite end side of the chamber with rotation of the rotor.

Continuous kneader, rotor for material discharging

A continuous mixer in which a pair of left and right rotors,are rotatably inserted into a chamber,having a feed port,and a discharge port,for materials at both axial ends, respectively, a gate device,for adjusting the polymer flow resistance of the materials is provided halfway in the axial direction of the chamber,, and a first and a second mixing portions,are formed at portions, respectively, of the rotors,positioned upstream and downstream of the gate device,, wherein a forced feed means,for forcibly post-adding the materials is connected to a portion downstream of the gate device,in the chamber,and upstream of the discharge port

Continuous mixer

Underwater cutting granulating device, knife used in this device, and underwater cutting granulating method using this knife

A kneaded product of a desired state of kneading is available by causing a material to be kneaded to flow in tip clearances between rotor segments 1b and 1b of screw sets 1 and 1 and an inner wall surface of a chamber 4 while rotating the screw sets 1 and 1 provided to the right and the left of the chamber 4, and imparting a shearing force for dispersion. Each rotor segment 1b has a plurality of kneading blade 7 having different distances between the segment center and the top, so as to achieve a plurality of tip clearances different at least in the circumferential direction when the segment center is aligned with the chamber center.

Twin-screw kneading apparatus

A method of eliminating gel contained in polymer, by efficiently plasticizing and melting the polymer supplied into a barrel with the stress in a rotor reduced, and next kneading the polymer with a rise in temperature of the polymer suppressed and a residence time of the polymer in the barrel increased. A continuous kneader for realizing this method is also provided. The gel eliminating method includes the first step of plasticizing and melting the polymer by using a first rotor having a given number of wings; and the second step of kneading the polymer after the first step by using a second rotor having a given number of wings fewer than the number of wings of the first rotor, so as to suppress a rise in temperature of the polymer and increase the volume of a kneading chamber to thereby increase a time period of residence of the polymer in the kneading chamber. The continuous kneader includes a rotor having the first rotor and the second rotor.

Method and apparatus for eliminating gel contained in polymer

Kneader

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Yoshinori Kuroda