MICRO FLUID SYSTEM SUPPORT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090274585A1
• Filed: 07/10/2009
• Published: 11/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company Limited (Resonac Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company Limited (Resonac Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Kawazoe, Hiroshi, Arike, Shigeharu, Nakaso, Akishi
• Application Number:
  US12/501,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20090274585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 422/99
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 19/0093 Microreactors, e.g. miniaturised or microfabricated reactors laboratory containers with capillary fluid transport in microfabricated channels or chambers B01L3/5027
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00783 Laminate assemblies, i.e. the reactor comprising a stack of plates
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00788 Three-dimensional assemblies, i.e. the reactor comprising a form other than a stack of plates
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00822 Metal
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00833 Plastic
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/0086 Dimensions of the flow channels
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/00869 Microreactors placed in parallel, on the same or on different supports
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2200/12 Specific details about manufacturing devices
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0816 Cards, e.g. flat sample carriers usually with flow in two horizontal directions
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0838 Capillaries
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0874 Three dimensional network
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/0887 Laminated structure
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2400/0481 squeezing of channels or chambers
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2400/0655 pinch valves
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/502707 characterised by the manufacture of the container or its components by shaping or joining plastic parts B29C59/00, B29C65/00; by laminating B32B37/00; manufacture of microstructural devices in general B81C
• CPC Class Codes: B81B 2201/051 Micromixers, microreactors
• CPC Class Codes: B81C 1/00119 Arrangement of basic structures like cavities or channels, e.g. suitable for microfluidic systems
• CPC Class Codes: B81C 2201/019 Bonding or gluing multiple substrate layers
• CPC Class Codes: B81C 2203/032 Gluing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/10 Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor

Abstract

A support unit for a microfluidic system includes a first support; a first adhesive layer provided on a surface of the first support; and a hollow filament laid on a surface of the first adhesive layer to have an arbitrary shape and functioning as a flow channel layer of the microfluidic system.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A support unit for a microfluidic system, comprising:

a first support;

a first adhesive layer provided on a surface of the first support; and

plurality of hollow filaments disposed on a surface of the first adhesive layer in an arbitrary shape and functioning as a flow channel layer of the microfluidic system, wherein an end of the hollow filament is flat cable-shaped.

18. The support unit for a microfluidic system according to claim 17, wherein the hollow filament is partially exposed from the first support.

19. The support unit for a microfluidic system according to claim 17, wherein an end of the hollow filament exposes from the first support.

20. The support unit for a microfluidic system according to claim 17, wherein a metal film is formed on a part of at least one of the hollow filament.

21. The support unit for a microfluidic system according to claim 17, wherein at least one of the hollow filament is partially provided with an optically transparent portion.

22. The support unit for a microfluidic system according to claim 17, wherein at least one of the hollow filament have light permeability.

23. The support unit for a microfluidic system according to claim 17, wherein laying shape of the hollow filament being fixed by the first adhesive layer.

24. The support unit for a microfluidic system according to claim 17, wherein there is a cavity in circumference of the hollow filament.

25. The support unit for a microfluidic system according to claim 17, wherein a terminal or a circuit is formed on the surface at least one of the first support and the second support.

26. The support unit for a microfluidic system according to claim 17, wherein at least one part which is chosen among a micromachine, a heat generation element, a piezoelectric element, a sensor, an electronic part, a light part is formed on the surface at least one of the first support and the second support.