STRUCTURES FOR SUPPORTING THE FILLING OF WELLS IN MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20220288585A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-15

    申请号:US17587908

    申请日:2022-01-28

    IPC分类号: B01L3/00 B29D22/00

    摘要: Structures for supporting the filling of wells, in particular in microfluidic devices and provides a microfluidic device, comprising a substrate with at least a first horizontal channel which continues as a first vertical chimney channel into a first well having a greater depth than the first horizontal channel with respect to an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the first vertical channel is half open to the volume of the first well. A method for filling a well of a microfluidic device using the device is also an object of the disclosure.

    Method of Manufacture of Microfluidic or Microtiter Device

    公开(公告)号:US20210077997A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-18

    申请号:US17086530

    申请日:2020-11-02

    IPC分类号: B01L3/00 B29C45/56

    摘要: A method of manufacturing a microfluidic or microtiter device, the method comprises fabricating, by a single compression injection molding operation, a microfluidic or microtiter device having one or more indentations, in which a base thickness of the one or more indentations is less than 400 μm. In embodiments, the fabricating step comprises: forming a mold cavity; filling the mold cavity with molten material; closing the mold cavity; and driving one or more molding formations complementary to the one or more indentations into the mold cavity.

    Method for manufacturing a microfluidic device

    公开(公告)号:US10675619B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-09

    申请号:US15903720

    申请日:2018-02-23

    摘要: A microfluidic device comprises a first substrate (102) made of a first polymer material and a second substrate (104) made of a second polymer material, the first (102) and second (104) substrates having respective bonding surfaces (23, 41), at least one of the bonding surfaces (41) having channel formations (14) so that, when the bonding surfaces (23, 41) are bonded by surface deformation to one another, the bonded first and second substrates (102, 104) and the channel formations (14) form at least part of a microfluidic channel network comprising a plurality of microfluidic channels, wherein one or more indicator pits (11), separate to the channel formations (14) defining the microfluidic channel network, are formed in at least one of the bonding surfaces (23, 41), so that surface deformation caused by the bonding process causes a change of configuration of the one or more indicator pits (11).