Method of coating microneedle
First Claim
1. A method of coating microneedles comprising the steps of:
- filling a coating solution on a flat mask plate having blind holes as apertures arranged in rows and columns into the apertures using a spatula as a filling means so that the apertures are filled to capacity with the coating solution, and inserting microneedles of a microneedle device to the apertures filled with the coating solution to coat the microneedles.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method of coating microneedles by which the microneedles mounted on a microneedle device are coated accurately and easily in a mass-producible manner. In this method, a microneedle device (22) with a plurality of microneedles (21) is mounted on a table (23), while a mask plate (25) with a plurality of apertures (24) is fixed to a frame member (26), and a coating solution (27) is drawn in the direction of arrow A on the mask plate (25) using a spatula (28) to fill the apertures (24) with the coating solution. The microneedles (21) are inserted in the apertures (24) before or after the filling of the apertures (24) with the coating solution (27) to coat the microneedles (21).
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1. A method of coating microneedles comprising the steps of:
filling a coating solution on a flat mask plate having blind holes as apertures arranged in rows and columns into the apertures using a spatula as a filling means so that the apertures are filled to capacity with the coating solution, and inserting microneedles of a microneedle device to the apertures filled with the coating solution to coat the microneedles. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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