US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on July 21 for "Sheet manufacturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,969, issued on July 21, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sheet manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Yukihiro Horiko (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet manufacturing apparatus 1 includes a quantitative feeder unit 15 that measures a predetermined amount of a raw material C and feeds the measured raw material C, a defibration unit 31 that defibrates the raw material C fed from the quantitative feeder unit 15 into fibers, a third unit group 103 that deposits and compresses the fibers and forms the fibers into a sheet, a first frame F1 to which the quantitative feeder unit 15 is fixed, and a second frame...