Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for producing a timepiece comprising at least one first part produced by a microfabrication or microforming method in at least one first material, said method comprising at least: a step of depositing, on said first part, without moulding, at least one second part of said timepiece in at least one second material, and a step of treating the second material in order to connect together the components on the first part.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure digital microfluidic arrays that may be fabricated by a printing method, whereby digital microfluidic electrodes arrays are printed, via a printing method such as inkjet printing, onto a suitable substrate. In some embodiments, a substrate and/or ink is prepared or modified to support the printing of electrode arrays, such as via changes to the surface energy. In some embodiments, porous and/or fibrous substrates are prepared by the addition of a barrier layer, or, for example, by the addition or infiltration of a suitable material to render the surface capable of supporting printed electrodes. Various example embodiments involving hybrid devices formed by the printing of digital microfluidic arrays onto a substrate having a hydrophilic layer are disclosed.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure digital microfluidic arrays that may be fabricated by a printing method, whereby digital microfluidic electrodes arrays are printed, via a printing method such as inkjet printing, onto a suitable substrate. In some embodiments, a substrate and/or ink is prepared or modified to support the printing of electrode arrays, such as via changes to the surface energy. In some embodiments, porous and/or fibrous substrates are prepared by the addition of a barrier layer, or, for example, by the addition or infiltration of a suitable material to render the surface capable of supporting printed electrodes. Various example embodiments involving hybrid devices formed by the printing of digital microfluidic arrays onto a substrate having a hydrophilic layer are disclosed.
Abstract:
A method of producing a three-dimensional structure contains the steps of: arranging a substrate close to a tip of a needle-shaped fluid-ejection body having a fine diameter supplied with a solution, ejecting a fluid droplet having an ultra-fine diameter toward a surface of the substrate by applying a voltage having a prescribed waveform to the needle-shaped fluid-ejection body, making the droplet fly and land on the substrate, and solidifying the droplet after the fluid droplet is landed on the substrate; further a three-dimensional structure has a fine diameter comprises droplets having an ultra-fine particle diameter, wherein the structure is grown by solidifying the droplets and stacking the solidified droplets.
Abstract:
A method of producing a three-dimensional structure contains the steps of: arranging a substrate close to a tip of a needle-shaped fluid-ejection body having a fine diameter supplied with a solution, ejecting a fluid droplet having an ultra-fine diameter toward a surface of the substrate by applying a voltage having a prescribed waveform to the needle-shaped fluid-ejection body, making the droplet fly and land on the substrate, and solidifying the droplet after the fluid droplet is landed on the substrate; further a three-dimensional structure has a fine diameter comprises droplets having an ultra-fine particle diameter, wherein the structure is grown by solidifying the droplets and stacking the solidified droplets.
Abstract:
A process for the production of a device having a surface microstructure of wells or channels, comprises one or more steps of screen-printing the microstructure as a curable material onto a plastics substrate, and curing the material. Such a device may also be obtained by applying onto a substrate a material that is polymerisable or depolymerisable by irradiation, applying a negative or positive photoresist respectively, irradiating the structure and removing the unpolymerised or depolymerised material.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a flat structure having an accurate and sharp contour by using an existing method of jetting.SOLUTION: The method comprises: a step of preparing a base plate 2; a step of printing a first structure 3 on the base plate 2 by a jetting method, in which the printed first structure 3 includes at least one first corner 5; a step of printing a second structure by a jetting method so that a second structure 4 contacts the first structure from the first corner 5 of the first structure 3 to an end point outside the first structure 3, the printing being performed while the material of the first structure 3 that contacts the second structure 4 is at least partly in a liquid state; and a step in which the first structure 3 and/or the second structure 4 is brought into electrical contact with each other.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a three-dimensional structure to which aspect ratio can be freely set, and further a fine three-dimensional structure which can be formed using various materials. SOLUTION: The three-dimensional structure 105 is obtained by discharging and flying fine droplets 102 from a nozzle 101 and solidifying the droplets. In the three-dimensional structure, flying droplets are piled successively on the apex of the three-dimensional structure obtained by solidifying the droplets by concentrating the electric field of the nozzle to the apex of the three-dimensional structure, and the three-dimensional structure has a sectional diameter of 15 μm or less and an aspect ratio of 2 or more by controlling the volatility of the droplets. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
La présente invention concerne un procédé de fabrication d'une pièce d'horlogerie comprenant au moins une première partie réalisée par un procédé de micro fabrication ou de micro formage dans au moins un premier matériau, ledit procédé comprenant au moins : une étape de dépôt sur ladite première partie sans moulage d'au moins une deuxième partie de ladite pièce dans au moins un deuxième matériau et une étape de traitement du second matériau pour en lier entre eux les composants sur la première partie.