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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2021
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuhito Gomi, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fiber body forming apparatus including an accumulating unit that has a release unit that releases a material containing a fiber and that has an accumulating member on which the material released from the discharging unit accumulates, a sheet substrate supply unit that supplies a sheet substrate to a position vertically below the release unit, and a control unit that controls operation of the accumulating unit and the sheet substrate supply unit, in which the control unit controls the operation of the accumulating unit and the sheet substrate supply unit to selectively execute a first mode for causing the material to accumulate on the accumulating member and the second mode for supplying the sheet substrate to the position vertically below the release unit and causing the material to accumulate on the sheet substrate.