US Patent 7238255 Microfluidic device and its manufacture

A method for increasing the yield of functional microchannel structures per microfluidic device in the manufacturing of microfluidic devices each of which comprises a plurality of enclosed microchannel structures, said manufacturing comprising the manufacture of a microfluidic device which comprises enclosed microchannel structures by joining a substrate surface I of a first generally planar plastic substrate I to a substrate surface II of a second generally planar substrate II via a bonding material.