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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010410</journal-id>
      <journal-title>NIP &amp; Digital Fabrication Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>nip digi fabric conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2169-4451</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society of Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.1998.14.1.art00024_2</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(19980101)1998:2L.429;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">nip_v1998n2/splitsection24.xml</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/nipdf/1998/00001998/00000002/art00024</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group>
          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Particle Motion in Screw Feeder Simulated by Discrete Element Method</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Tanida</surname>
            <given-names>Kei-ich</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Honda</surname>
            <given-names>Kouji</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Kawano</surname>
            <given-names>Nobuaki</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Kawaguchi</surname>
            <given-names>Toshihiro</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Tanaka</surname>
            <given-names>Toshitsugu</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Tsuji</surname>
            <given-names>Yutaka</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>1998</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1998</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>429</fpage>
      <lpage>431</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>1998</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>It is desired that toners and carriers are mixed well and charged appropriately in the two-component developers of electrophotography. Further these two kinds of particles should be transported to the latent image on the photoconductive drum steadily and at a proper rate. Screw feeders
 are often used for this process because it is suitable for dealing with mixing, charging and transporting simultaneously. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to know experimentally details of dynamic behavior of particles affected by complicated geometric conditions in the developers unit.
 As a method for calculating particle motion, DEM (Discrete Element Method) has been attracting a great attention in various fields related to powder and particles. In DEM motion of individual particles is calculated by using the Newton's equations of motion. DEM was applied in this work
 to study motion of carriers in a screw feeder. The properties concerning mixing and transporting particles were analyzed.</p>
      </abstract>
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