Patent ID: 8703039

Claim:
A method for producing a microstructured composite component, comprising the following steps: arranging a first foil over a second foil between a first mold component and a second mold component, wherein the first mold component and/or the second mold component comprises microstructured hollow shapes to be filled in; heating the first mold component and the second mold component in order to, conveyed over it, heat the first foil and the second foil; creating an overpressure between the first foil and the second foil in order to force the first foil and/or the second foil into the microstructured hollow shapes to be filled in, wherein the overpressure is greater than a pressure surrounding the first mold component and the second mold component; pressing together the first mold component and the second mold component, with the first foil arranged in-between, and with the second foil arranged in-between, by means of a pressing force, in order to integrally interconnect contacting regions of the surfaces between the first foil and the first mold component, between the second foil and the second mold component, and between the first foil and the second foil; and cooling the first mold component, the second mold component, the first foil and the second foil, such that the first and second mold components and first and second foils are permanently and materially bonded, whereby the microstructured composite component is formed.