Abstract: An impregnation device includes an impregnation unit, a first supply unit, a second supply unit, and a supply controller. The impregnation unit impregnates a bundle of transported continuous fibers with a resin mixture. The first supply unit supplies a resin of a first composition to the impregnation unit. The second supply unit supplies a resin of a second composition that is different from the resin of the first composition to the impregnation unit. The supply controller controls an amount of resin supplied from the first supply unit and the second supply unit to the impregnation unit.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus includes: a table having a surface; a delivery unit including a heating unit that heats a filament, the delivery unit that delivers the filament toward the surface; a pressurizing unit disposed downstream of the delivery unit in a delivery direction of the filament, the pressuring unit that pressurizes the filament delivered to the surface against the surface; and a cutting unit that cuts the filament between the pressurizing unit and the heating unit in the delivery direction.

Abstract: A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes a first resin; a second resin; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, wherein a fiber coated with the second resin is dispersed in a matrix formed of the first resin, the compatibilizing agent is interposed between the first resin and the second resin, a thickness of a coating layer formed of the second resin is 0.1 ?m or more and 5 ?m or less, and a content rate of the second resin with respect to a total weight of the first resin, the second resin, and the compatibilizing agent is 30% by weight or more and 50% by weight or less, or 5% by weight or more and 15% by weight or less.

Abstract: A shaping apparatus includes a stand that includes a shaping surface on which a product is shaped; a feeder that feeds a linear material obtained by impregnating continuous fiber with resin; a pressing portion that presses the material fed by the feeder against the stand; and an angle setting portion that sets an angle formed between the material fed from the feeder to the pressing portion and the shaping surface to be an acute angle.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus includes a delivery unit and individual heating units. The delivery unit delivers plural linear manufacturing materials that are arranged side by side to apply the manufacturing materials onto a table. The manufacturing materials contain resin. The individual heating units individually heat the manufacturing materials delivered by the delivery unit.

Abstract: A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes a first resin; a second resin; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, wherein a fiber coated with the second resin is dispersed in a matrix formed of the first resin, the compatibilizing agent is interposed between the first resin and the second resin, a thickness of a coating layer formed of the second resin is 0.1 ?m or more and 5 ?m or less, and a content rate of the second resin with respect to a total weight of the first resin, the second resin, and the compatibilizing agent is 30% by weight or more and 50% by weight or less, or 5% by weight or more and 15% by weight or less.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus includes: a table having a surface; a delivery unit including a heating unit that heats a filament, the delivery unit that delivers the filament toward the surface; a pressurizing unit disposed downstream of the delivery unit in a delivery direction of the filament, the pressuring unit that pressurizes the filament delivered to the surface against the surface; and a cutting unit that cuts the filament between the pressurizing unit and the heating unit in the delivery direction.

Abstract: An impregnation device includes an impregnation unit, a first supply unit, a second supply unit, and a supply controller. The impregnation unit impregnates a bundle of transported continuous fibers with a resin mixture. The first supply unit supplies a resin of a first composition to the impregnation unit. The second supply unit supplies a resin of a second composition that is different from the resin of the first composition to the impregnation unit. The supply controller controls an amount of resin supplied from the first supply unit and the second supply unit to the impregnation unit.

Abstract: A molding apparatus includes: a molding base having a molding surface on which a molded article is to be molded; a transport part that transports a linear molding material toward the molding surface; a heating part that heats the molding material being transported to the transport part; a pressure part that moves relative to the molding base and presses the molding material heated by the heating part onto the molding surface such that the molding material is stacked in multiple layers; and a restricting part disposed between the heating part and the pressure part in a molding-material transport direction, the restricting part restricting the position of the molding material transported from the heating part to the pressure part.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus includes a delivery unit and individual heating units. The delivery unit delivers plural linear manufacturing materials that are arranged side by side to apply the manufacturing materials onto a table. The manufacturing materials contain resin. The individual heating units individually heat the manufacturing materials delivered by the delivery unit.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus includes a delivery unit that delivers at least one linear manufacturing material containing resin, and a pressing unit including an irregularity portion that presses the manufacturing material delivered from the delivery unit, against a target object.

Abstract: Provided is a shaping apparatus including: a receiving portion configured to receive a linear shaping material including a bundle of continuous fibers impregnated with a resin, and a discharging mechanism configured to move relative to the receiving portion in a curved shape and discharges the shaping material on the receiving portion while twisting the shaping material in a range of less than 180 degrees to an opposite direction to a bending direction with respect to the receiving portion.

Abstract: A shaping apparatus includes a stand that includes a shaping surface on which a product is shaped; a feeder that feeds a linear material obtained by impregnating continuous fiber with resin; a pressing portion that presses the material fed by the feeder against the stand; and an angle setting portion that sets an angle formed between the material fed from the feeder to the pressing portion and the shaping surface to be an acute angle.

Abstract: A forming apparatus includes a discharge target device, a reducing device, and a discharge device. The reducing device reduces a section of a linear formation material in which a bundle of continuous fibers has been impregnated with resin. The discharge device moves relative to the discharge target device, discharges to the discharge target device the formation material the section of which has been reduced by the reducing device, and stacks plural layers formed of the formation material having been solidified.

Abstract: An oil removing device includes a first heating member that at an outer surface thereof contacts a non-image surface of a recording medium which is transported, and that heats the recording medium, a toner image that is formed by using liquid developer that contains volatile oil and toner being transferred to the recording medium; and a second heating member that is disposed on a downstream side of the first heating member in a transport direction, the second heating member contacting at an outer surface thereof the non-image surface of the recording medium and heating the recording medium. In the oil removing device, a non-contact region where the non-image surface of the recording medium does not contact the first heating member and the second heating member is provided between the first heating member and the second heating member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device that fixes a toner image which is developed with a liquid developer containing a toner and a volatile carrier oil on a recording medium, a heating device that is disposed on an upstream side of the fixing device in a feed direction of the recording medium, and heats the toner image on the recording medium in a non-contact manner, in which heating is controlled such that a porosity of the toner image on the recording medium in an outlet of the heating device is in a range of 20% by volume to 40% by volume, and a drying path that is disposed between the heating device and the fixing device in the feed direction of the recording medium, and dries the recording medium by evaporating the carrier oil in the recording medium.

Abstract: An oil removing device includes a first heating member that at an outer surface thereof contacts a non-image surface of a recording medium which is transported, and that heats the recording medium, a toner image that is formed by using liquid developer that contains volatile oil and toner being transferred to the recording medium; and a second heating member that is disposed on a downstream side of the first heating member in a transport direction, the second heating member contacting at an outer surface thereof the non-image surface of the recording medium and heating the recording medium. In the oil removing device, a non-contact region where the non-image surface of the recording medium does not contact the first heating member and the second heating member is provided between the first heating member and the second heating member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a forming part that forms an image on a ribbon-like medium that is being transported; and a fixing part disposed downstream of the forming part in a medium transport direction, the fixing part including multiple fixing members, which are arranged in the transport direction and fix the image to the medium by applying heat and pressure to the medium. An upstream-downstream tension difference, in the medium transport direction, of the fixing member located on the most upstream side in the transport direction is greater than those of the other fixing members in the medium transport direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device that fixes a toner image which is developed with a liquid developer containing a toner and a volatile carrier oil on a recording medium, a heating device that is disposed on an upstream side of the fixing device in a feed direction of the recording medium, and heats the toner image on the recording medium in a non-contact manner, in which heating is controlled such that a porosity of the toner image on the recording medium in an outlet of the heating device is in a range of 20% by volume to 40% by volume, and a drying path that is disposed between the heating device and the fixing device in the feed direction of the recording medium, and dries the recording medium by evaporating the carrier oil in the recording medium.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a forming part that forms an image on a ribbon-like medium that is being transported; and a fixing part disposed downstream of the forming part in a medium transport direction, the fixing part including multiple fixing members, which are arranged in the transport direction and fix the image to the medium by applying heat and pressure to the medium. An upstream-downstream tension difference, in the medium transport direction, of the fixing member located on the most upstream side in the transport direction is greater than those of the other fixing members in the medium transport direction.