Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Epoxy mold making and micromilling for microfluidics
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Application No.: US15503360Application Date: 2015-08-28
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Publication No.: US10682789B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Daniel Konstantinou , Alwin Wan , Tal Rosenzweig , Amir Sadri , Nenad Kircanski , Edmond Young
- Applicant: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Hercules
- Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Hercules
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2015/047393 WO 20150828
- International Announcement: WO2016/033434 WO 20160303
- Main IPC: B29C33/40
- IPC: B29C33/40 ; B29C33/42 ; B29C33/38 ; B01L3/00 ; B29C39/00 ; B29C39/02 ; B29C59/02 ; B29K33/00

Abstract:
A method for efficiently manufacturing and fabricating microfluidic chips, where a base mold is formed to have positive-relief features used to cast an intermediary template chip with negative-relief features having dimensions of a scale in the micron range. The intermediary template chip is used to case a production mold, which is formed of a reinforced epoxy resin that, once hardened into a solid epoxy member, can withstand the structural pressures of a CNC machining system. The production mold can be refined by a CNC machining, where the refined production mold is then used to cast production chips to be used as microfluidic chips.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170225363A1 EPOXY MOLD MAKING AND MICROMILLING FOR MICROFLUIDICS Public/Granted day:2017-08-10
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