Patent ID: 8398865

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a mechanical part comprising the steps of: (a) providing a substrate of micro-machinable material; (b) etching, using photolithography, a pattern that includes the mechanical part, through the entire substrate; (c) mounting the etched substrate on a support so as to leave top and bottom surfaces of the substrate accessible for coating of both the top and bottom surfaces, guiding the substrate relative to the support using alignment means so as to orient the substrate in a predetermined manner, and sliding the substrate against at least one pin secured to the support until the substrate abuts against a shoulder of the at least one pin made at a distance from the support so as to keep the substrate high up relative to the support; (d) depositing a coating of better tribological quality than the micro-machinable material on an outer surface of the mechanical part; and (e) releasing the mechanical part from the substrate.