空気圧人工筋肉を用いた粉末搬送用蠕動運動型コンベアの開発

抄録

In recent years, powdered materials have been often used in various industries. Among the various uses of powders, we focused on the conveyance in the printers. Screw conveyors are commonly used in the printer for the conveyance of the developer. However, this presents the problems such as the condensation of the developer by the shearing force and the temperature rise. In an alternative approach, we created a transport device that mimics the intestinal tract and demonstrated successful transport of the highly viscous and solid-liquid mixed fluids. In this study, to overcome the above problems, we made the peristaltic conveyor. We investigated the ability of this conveyor to convey powder by using the expansion of the rubber. And performed conveyance experiments by using the carrier used in the printer and measured the weight to determine the conveyance performance per unit of time.