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Design and fabrication of a coupled microneedle array and insertion guide array for safe penetration through skin

  • Ritsumeikan University
  • National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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Abstract

Ordinary flat hollow tip, microneedles have been'designed and fabricated for Biomedical MEMS applications. With the facilitation of an insertion guide, the needles can be pushed down through the viable-epidermis with lessbending. The microneedle array has the ability of integration with microfluidic devices since the needles are hollow so that the liquid can flow through the holes. 100 microneedles are contained in a 5×5 mm2 array chip and the same size of another array chip contains 100 insertion guide holes. A standard silicon micromachining process was employed to fabricate both arrays. The shape of microneedle is as simple as a tube so that the designed theories and simulations can be more precise than the complicated shape. The result of testing shows that there was no microneedle broken during the penetration to the skin via the guiding holes. The finite-element analyses of stresses and deformed shapes have been carried out with the explanation of deformed shape and stress occurred in the needle structure.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMHS 2003 - Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages233-237
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)0780381653, 9780780381650
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science, MHS 2003 - Nagoya, Japan
Duration: 19 Oct 200322 Oct 2003

Publication series

NameMHS 2003 - Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science

Conference

ConferenceInternational Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science, MHS 2003
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagoya
Period19/10/0322/10/03

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