Skin Needle Manufacturing Apparatus and Skin Needle Manufacturing Method
AssigneeNabtesco Corporation
InventorsNobuyuki Mukai, Shuken Kuramoto, Tsutomu Takahashi, Yoshinori Oonuma
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Abstract
In a skin needle manufacturing apparatus 10, a material melted in a syringe 45 is discharged from a fine hole 47a of a pin member 47 and is caused to adhere to a base 48. A computer 50 causes a drive mechanism 48 to separate the pin member 47 from the base 48. Then, the material 80 having adhered to the pin member 47 and the base 48 is drawn out. A projection portion 48b formed of a part of the material 80, which has adhered to the base 48, is formed into a skin needle 81. Consequently, a skin needle can relatively easily be manufactured without requiring excessive time, effort, and cost.
Claims42
A skin needle manufacturing apparatus, comprising:
- a base installation member configured to install a base on which one or more skin needles are erected;
- a pin member to which a part of a material of said skin needle adheres;
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- a moving unit configured to move at least one of said base installation member and said pin member in a direction in which said base installation member and said pin member relatively move away from each other,
- wherein said base installation member and said pin member are separated by said moving unit from each other in a state in which said material is melted and adheres to said pin member and to said base, so as to draw out said molten material to form a skin needle.
A manufacturing method for a skin needle, wherein a material of said skin needle, which is in a molten state, is provided on a base, on which one or more skin needles are erected, that a pin member is attached to a part of said molten material, and that said base and said pin member are drawn away from each other in a direction in which said base and said pin member relatively move away from each other, thereby to form a skin needle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.