US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Jan. 20 for "Sheet manufacturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,188, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sheet manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Hirofumi Nakata (Nagano, Japan), Keigo Yamasaki (Nagano, Japan), Yuka Kato (Nagano, Japan), Hirokazu Yamaga (Nagano, Japan) and Shigeo Fujita (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a pipe that supplies a material containing fibers, a collision section with which the material moving from the pipe collides, and an accumulation section that is disposed downstream of the collision section and accumulates the material to form a web."

The patent was filed on May 24, 2023, under ...