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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2005
Eng-pi Chang, Arcadia, CA (US);
Philip Yi Zhi Chu, Monrovia, CA (US);
Hsiao Ken Chuang, Arcadia, CA (US);
Kejian (Kevin) Huang, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Michael Lang, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);
Reza Mehrabi, Tujunga, CA (US);
Ronald F. Sieloff, Chardon, OH (US);
Karen L. Spilizewski, Euclid, OH (US);
Mark Wisniewski, Mentor, OH (US);
Eng-Pi Chang, Arcadia, CA (US);
Philip Yi Zhi Chu, Monrovia, CA (US);
Hsiao Ken Chuang, Arcadia, CA (US);
Kejian (Kevin) Huang, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Michael Lang, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);
Reza Mehrabi, Tujunga, CA (US);
Ronald F. Sieloff, Chardon, OH (US);
Karen L. Spilizewski, Euclid, OH (US);
Mark Wisniewski, Mentor, OH (US);
Avery Dennison Corporation, Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of making a microneedle array structure () comprising a plurality of simultaneously formed microneedles (), each microneedle () having a protrusion () and a passageway () extending therethrough. The method comprises the steps of pressing an embossable sheet material between a complimentary tools and radiantly heating the sheet material using radiant energy from a radiant energy source. One tool is relatively-radiantly-transparent, and another tool and/or the sheet material is relatively-radiantly-absorptive.