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Granted Patent B2
US 12,258,713 · App. 18/191,044 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Sheet manufacturing system

Inventor: Takao Mikoshiba (Nagano, JP)
Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
D21G9/0018D21B1/08D21H11/14
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Patent No.
US 12,258,713
App. No.
18/191,044
Granted
Mar 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sheet manufacturing system includes a coarsely crushing apparatus that coarsely crushes a paper, a sheet manufacturing apparatus that generates a sheet-shaped recycled paper using coarsely crushed pieces of the paper as a raw material, and a server that is connected to the coarsely crushing apparatus and the sheet manufacturing apparatus via a network, in which the coarsely crushing apparatus has an integration section that integrates the coarsely crushed pieces, an integration amount detector that detects an integration amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the integration section, and a transmission section that transmits information related to the integration amount, which is detected by the integration amount detector, to the server, and the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a reception section that acquires the information related to the integration amount from the server, a display information generation section that generates display information related to the integration amount based on the information acquired by the reception section, and a display section that displays the display information.

Claims (32)

1. A sheet manufacturing system comprising:

a coarsely crushing apparatus that coarsely crushes a paper;

a sheet manufacturing apparatus that generates a sheet-shaped recycled paper using coarsely crushed pieces of the paper as a raw material; and

a server that is connected to the coarsely crushing apparatus and the sheet manufacturing apparatus via a network, wherein

the coarsely crushing apparatus has an integration section that integrates the coarsely crushed pieces, an integration amount detector that detects an integration amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the integration section, and a transmission section that transmits information related to the integration amount, which is detected by the integration amount detector, to the server, and

the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a reception section that acquires the information related to the integration amount from the server, a display information generation section that generates display information related to the integration amount based on the information acquired by the reception section, and a display section that displays the display information.

2. The sheet manufacturing system according to claim 1 , wherein

the display information is information obtained by quantifying the integration amount.

3. The sheet manufacturing system according to claim 1 , wherein

the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a reserving section that reserves the coarsely crushed pieces, and a remaining amount detector that detects a remaining amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the reserving section.

4. The sheet manufacturing system according to claim 3 , wherein

the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a calculation section that calculates an allowable filling amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the reserving section based on a detection result of the remaining amount detector.

5. The sheet manufacturing system according to claim 4 , wherein

the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a determination section that determines whether or not the integration amount exceeds the allowable filling amount based on the information related to the integration amount acquired from the server, and the allowable filling amount calculated by the calculation section, and

the display information generated by the display information generation section includes information related to a determination result in the determination section.

6. The sheet manufacturing system according to claim 1 , wherein

the coarsely crushing apparatus has at least one piece of specific information of a device ID that specifies the coarsely crushing apparatus and a user ID that specifies a user who uses the coarsely crushing apparatus, and the information related to the integration amount transmitted from the transmission section is associated with the specific information.

7. A sheet manufacturing system comprising:

a first coarsely crushing apparatus that coarsely crushes a paper;

a second coarsely crushing apparatus that coarsely crushes a paper;

a sheet manufacturing apparatus that generates a sheet-shaped recycled paper using coarsely crushed pieces of the paper as a raw material; and

a server that is connected to the first coarsely crushing apparatus, the second coarsely crushing apparatus, and the sheet manufacturing apparatus via a network, wherein

the first coarsely crushing apparatus has a first integration section that integrates coarsely crushed pieces, a first integration amount detector that detects an integration amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the first integration section, and a first transmission section that transmits information related to a first integration amount detected by the first integration amount detector to the server,

the second coarsely crushing apparatus has a second integration section that integrates coarsely crushed pieces, a second integration amount detector that detects an integration amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the second integration section, and a second transmission section that transmits information related to a second integration amount detected by the second integration amount detector to the server, and

the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a reception section that acquires the information related to the first integration amount and the second integration amount from the server, a display information generation section that generates display information related to the first integration amount and the second integration amount based on the information acquired by the reception section, and a display section that displays the display information.

8. The sheet manufacturing system according to claim 7 , wherein

the sheet manufacturing apparatus has

a reserving section that reserves the coarsely crushed pieces,

a remaining amount detector that detects a remaining amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the reserving section,

a calculation section that calculates an allowable filling amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the reserving section based on a detection result of the remaining amount detector, and

a determination section that performs first determination of whether or not the first integration amount exceeds the allowable filling amount and second determination of whether or not the second integration amount exceeds the allowable filling amount based on the allowable filling amount calculated by the calculation section, and the information related to the first integration amount and the information related to the second integration amount which are acquired from the server, and

the display information generated by the display information generation section includes information related to results of the first determination and the second determination in the determination section.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 28, 2023
From: MIKOSHIBA, TAKAO
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063123/0887 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-055326 · Mar 30, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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