ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,592, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Sheet manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Goshiro Isozaki (Nagano, Japan) and Toshizo Nishi (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes: a defibrating unit that defibrates a material to turn it into fibers; a fiber piling-up unit that piles up the fibers to form a second web; a pressing portion that presses the second web to turn it into a sheet; and a humidifying mechanism that supplies humidified air to the fiber piling-up unit. The fiber piling-up unit includes a rotating portion that stirs the fibers supplied from the defibrating unit, ...