Patent ID: 8579862

Claim:
A microneedle device comprising: a concave part, a flat plate fixing member for fixing a microneedle, and a supporting member at or near a periphery of the flat plate fixing member, wherein the supporting member has an opening for forming the concave part, the flat plate fixing member constitutes a bottom part of the microneedle device and is a hard member configured to transmit pressure from a finger to skin to thereby elevate the skin surface inside the concave part and to prevent the axial direction of small needles of the microneedle from being shifted, the supporting member comprises a resin, and the microneedle is placed in a central part of the concave part such that: (a) tip portions of small needles of the microneedle are positioned inside the microneedle device from a tip surface of the supporting member, and (b) a distance between the tip portions of the small needles and the tip surface plane of the supporting member is 15% or shorter than the inner dimension of the opening.