APPLICATOR FOR MICRONEEDLE ARRAY

摘要

Provided is a microneedle device which protects microneedles, has an easily portable shape, is free from such problems as breakage of fine needles in the step of puncturing the skin with the microneedles, and ensures appropriate skin puncture for administering a drug. By studying the relationship between a device to be pressed to the skin and the height of an elevation on the skin surface under the pressing and thus producing a device equipped with microneedles that are embedded in a concave area having a definite depth, the microneedles can be surely and easily inserted and punctured into the skin while avoiding such problems as breakage of fine needles of the microneedles. Thus, a microneedle patch, which is easily portable and ensures convenient drug administration to the skin, can be produced.