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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1997
Koji Mizunuma, Numazu, JP;
Satoru Nitta, Numazu, JP;
Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet profile for bank formation is controlled by using a system including a die and two rotational formation rolls arranged substantially to be parallel to each other at a downstream side of the die, in which a plastic material heated and plasticized is fed through a discharge port of the die in shape of sheet to an upstream side of a gap between the two formation rolls and a sheet is formed so as to provide a predetermined sheet profile by passing through the gap between the two rolls under pressure while forming a bank of the plastic material at the upstream side of the roll gap. The sheet profile control is performed by a method comprising the steps of measuring a bank profile of the bank formed to an upstream side of the roll gap and a sheet profile of a sheet fed out through the roll gap, operating an aimed bank profile corresponding to an aimed sheet profile from measured results of the bank profile and the sheet profile to obtain a deviation between the operated aimed bank profile and the measured bank profile, and adjusting a discharge amount distribution of the plastic material at the discharge port of the die to thereby control the sheet profile so as to have a uniform shape.