Living-Body Laminate Patch with Solvent-Resistant Protective Layer

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Solution Overview

Problem

Pressure-sensitive adhesion sheets face issues with solvent transfer and deformation during printing, leading to wrinkles and damage from friction, which compromise printing resistance.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating a protecting layer with chemical resistance and optionally abrasion resistance to suppress solvent transfer and deformation, ensuring the laminate patchable a living body maintains its integrity during printing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a printed layer is applied directly to the pressure-sensitive adhesion sheet, then the sheet can be customized for specific uses, but solvent transfer causes swelling and deformation leading to wrinkles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprinting customizationVSAvoidsurface flatness
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

A protecting layer is introduced as an intermediary between the printed layer and the pressure-sensitive adhesion sheet. This protecting layer has chemical resistance to the printing solvent, preventing solvent transfer and swelling of the underlying layers, thereby maintaining surface flatness while allowing printing customization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If printing is performed directly on the pressure-sensitive adhesion sheet, then design flexibility is improved, but friction from printing devices causes damage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign flexibilityVSAvoidsurface integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The protecting layer serves as a mediator that absorbs mechanical stress and friction from printing devices, protecting the pressure-sensitive adhesion sheet from damage while allowing design flexibility through printing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The protecting layer is formed in advance on the pressure-sensitive adhesion sheet before printing is performed, providing preemptive protection against friction damage from printing devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If the pressure-sensitive adhesion sheet is made thinner for better conformability, then elasticity is improved, but resistance to solvent transfer and friction damage is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveconformabilityVSAvoidprinting resistance
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The structure is segmented into multiple functional layers: a thin pressure-sensitive adhesion sheet for conformability, and a separate protecting layer for printing resistance. This segmentation allows each layer to be optimized independently - the base sheet remains thin for elasticity while the protecting layer provides robust resistance to solvent and friction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The invention uses a composite structure combining a pressure-sensitive adhesion sheet with a protecting layer having different material properties. The protecting layer is specifically selected or designed to have high chemical resistance and abrasion resistance, creating a composite material system that exhibits both conformability and printing resistance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Data Source

PatentEP3513786B1Laminate patchable a living body
Publication Date: 2025.07.09 NITTO DENKO CORP
  • EP3513786B1 patent drawingFigure 1~2

AI summary

A laminate patchable a living body includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for patching to the living body, a substrate layer disposed on a one-side surface in a thickness direction of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and supporting the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a protecting layer disposed on a one-side surface in the thickness direction of the substrate layer.