Sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9849634-B2
Application number	US-201514984100-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2015
Priority date	Feb 6, 2015
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

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 μC/g or higher.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sheet manufacturing apparatus comprising:
a mixing unit configured to mix fibers and a composite in the atmosphere; and
a forming unit configured to deposit and heat a mixture mixed by the mixing unit to form a sheet,
wherein the composite is resin particles with at least a portion of a surface coated with inorganic fine particles, and
an absolute value of an average charging amount of the composite is 40 μC/g or higher.

2. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the mixing unit is configured to mix the fibers and the composite that has the resin particles with the volumetric average particle diameter that is 25 μm or less.

3. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the mixing unit is configured to mix the fibers and the composite that has the inorganic fine particles with the volumetric average particle diameter that is 40 nm or less.

4. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the mixing unit is configured to mix the fibers and the composite that is configured to not be divided into the resin and the inorganic fine particles during mixing in the mixing unit.

5. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the forming unit includes
a discharging unit configured to discharge the mixture,
a mesh belt configured to accumulate the mixture, and
a suction unit configured to suction gas that includes the mixture via the mesh belt.

6. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the mixing unit is configured to mix the composite in which the content of the inorganic fine particles is 0.1% by weight or more to less than 4% by weight and the fibers.

7. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the mixing unit includes a plurality of rotary units having blades that rotate, and mixes the fibers and the composite by being passed through the rotary unit.

8. A sheet manufacturing method comprising:
mixing fibers and a composite which has inorganic fine particles and a resin that are integrated, in air; and
depositing, heating and forming a mixture in which the fiber and the composite are mixed.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Ueno Yoshihiro

Classifications

• D21F1/82

  adding fibre agglomeration compositions · CPC title

• D21F9/00 Primary

  Complete machines for making continuous webs of paper · CPC title

• D04H1/42 Primary

  characterised by the use of certain kinds of fibres insofar as this use has no preponderant influence on the consolidation of the fleece · CPC title

• D21B1/021

  by chemical means · CPC title

• B29K2103/06

  Metal powders, metal carbides or the like · CPC title