Patents Examined by SAra Addisu
  • Patent number: 11772166
    Abstract: Chip discharge during high-feed machining and low-feed machining particularly in a high-depth-of-cut state or the like is improved so as to allow so-called freedom of feed during cutting to be improved. A cutting edge body of a cutting insert includes a front cutting edge formed on one end side in a longitudinal direction, the front cutting edge being a cutting edge formed on an intersecting edge between a peripheral side surface and an upper surface of the cutting edge body having a prismatic shape, a side cutting edge formed on one end side in a lateral direction, a recessed part provided in the upper surface of the cutting edge body to be subsequent to the side cutting edge in the lateral direction, and a wall part having a wavy wall surface formed in a portion of the recessed part and a discrete wall surface formed at a position between the wavy wall surface and the side cutting edge and including a plurality of surfaces which are discrete along the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Suzuki, Yasutake Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11772168
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting insert having a polygonal upper side. Cutting edges, which are alternately configured as roughing cutting edges and finishing cutting edges, are provided at the edges of the upper side. The finishing cutting edges define an incircle (K1) having a diameter that is enlarged in comparison to a nominal size of the cutting insert, and the roughing cutting edges define an incircle (K2) having a diameter that is reduced in comparison to the nominal size of the cutting insert. The invention further relates to a cutting tool having a tool body on which at least one such cutting insert is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventor: Konrad Spitzenberger
  • Patent number: 11772173
    Abstract: Provided is an end mill which includes an end mill main body having a bottom blade having a convex hemispherical shape, and a hard coating film coated on at least a surface of a distal end portion of the end mill main body. A diameter D (mm) of the bottom blade is 2 mm or less. A ratio W/D of a width W (mm) of a chisel portion to the diameter D (mm) is within a range of 0.020 to 0.060. A ratio L/D of a facing length L (mm) of chip discharge grooves to the diameter D (mm) is within a range of 0.014 to 0.090. A rake angle of the bottom blade in a range in which a chisel edge is formed in the chisel portion is within a range of ?15° to ?30°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MOLDINO TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Iharada
  • Patent number: 11772167
    Abstract: To provide a cutting insert that is properly manufactured with ease of use. A cutting insert has a first end face, a second end face on the opposite side from the first end face, and a peripheral side surface that is parallel to a central axis connecting the center of the first end face and the center of the second end face and connects the first end face and the second end face. A first major cutting edge is formed on the outer edge of the first end face. A first flank facing the first major cutting edge is formed between the first major cutting edge and the peripheral side surface and has a negative clearance angle ? with respect to the peripheral side surface. The peripheral side surface includes a first side surface facing the first flank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Shiroma, Satoru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11766755
    Abstract: It is possible to improve workpiece machining efficiency by efficiently receiving and delivering a workpiece from/to each workpiece holder and shortening a time required for workpiece conveyance. A workpiece conveyance system is a workpiece conveyance system that receives and delivers workpieces W to be machined to n spindles (workpiece holders, where n is an integer satisfying n?2) that hold and rotate the workpieces W, and includes a main loader including n+m main loader chucks (where m is an integer satisfying m?1) that receive and deliver workpieces from/to the n spindles or n relay loaders disposed corresponding to the n respective spindles to receive and deliver the workpieces W from/to the main shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Murase
  • Patent number: 11766724
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a holder and a cutting insert releasably clamped in the holder. The holder has a rear pocket surface which includes a pocket abutment surface and an adjacent pocket wedge surface. The cutting insert has at least one abutment surface and an adjacent wedge surface. When the cutting tool is assembled but not in use, the pocket abutment surface of the holder abuts the abutment surface of the cutting insert, and the wedge surface of the holder is facing and spaced apart from the wedge surface of the cutting insert. During cutting operations, the wedge surface of the insert may abut against the wedge surface of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Hecht, Sergey Chistyakov
  • Patent number: 11759865
    Abstract: A tool body in which a cutting insert can be replaced easily is provided. The tool body which fixes the indexable cutting insert includes an insert mounting seat which is provided on a first surface of the tool body, a clamp member which binds the cutting insert placed on the insert mounting seat, and an operating member which operates the clamp member. The operating member can lower the clamp member from the first surface toward a second surface of the tool body on an opposite side thereof to the first surface and can raise the clamp member from the second surface toward the first surface. The clamp member has a hook portion which is brought into contact with a diameter reducing portion formed on an inner peripheral surface of a mounting hole of the cutting insert in a state where the clamp member is lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsumi Kato, Ryuichi Saji
  • Patent number: 11759871
    Abstract: There is provided a cutting tool in which chip control is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasutake Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11759867
    Abstract: A cutting insert and a cutting tool which can suppress lowering of blade-edge positional accuracy while holding by a holder having a small thickness is enabled are provided. The cutting insert includes a first end surface, a second end surface, and a peripheral side surface connected to the first end surface and the second end surface and having a rake face, a flank, and a cutting edge formed in a connection region between the rake face and the flank, and a through hole penetrating the first end surface and the second end surface is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11745276
    Abstract: Provided is a cutting insert configured to be able to realize downsizing of a cutting tool. A cutting insert includes: an upper surface and a lower surface facing each other and having a plurality of corner parts; a side surface connecting the upper surface and the lower surface and forming intersecting edges with the upper surface and the lower surface, respectively; and a through hole that has a central axis extending from the upper surface to the lower surface and that is formed for penetration from the upper surface to the lower surface. A corner cutting edge arranged at a position corresponding to a corner part of the upper surface, a minor cutting edge connected to a first end of the corner cutting edge, and a major cutting edge connected to a second end of the corner cutting edge are formed on the intersecting edge between the upper surface and the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Aso
  • Patent number: 11745270
    Abstract: An elongated tool holder includes a mass housing portion having a housing peripheral surface, an outer sleeve having a sleeve hole wall surface, and an anti-vibration arrangement. An elongated groove is formed in one of the housing peripheral surface and the sleeve hole wall surface. In an assembled state of the tool holder, the groove, which is located at a common interface of the housing peripheral surface and the sleeve hole wall surface, forms a groove coolant channel. The groove coolant channel forms part of an overall tool holder coolant channel which is spaced apart from the anti-vibration arrangement, and thus isolates the coolant from the anti-vibration arrangement. A cutting tool incorporates the tool holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jony Saffouri
  • Patent number: 11745296
    Abstract: A milling tool having an operating area that is rotatable about an operating axis of rotation for milling a workpiece. The operating area has at least one milling edge extending transversely to the circumferential direction (U) of an operating axis of rotation. At least one of the at least one milling edge includes at least one milling edge portion in which a milling edge profile (P), which is defined by the radial distance (F) between the milling edge and the operating axis of rotation along the milling edge, has a non linear progression. The milling edge in the milling edge portion has a chip space, which extends radially inward toward the operating axis of rotation in relation to the milling edge. The chip space has a chip space base that follows the milling edge profile (P) at least in portions in the milling edge portion with the non-linear milling edge profile (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FRANKEN GMBH & CO. KG FABRIK FÜR PRÄZISIONSWERKZEUGE
    Inventors: Reinhard Geist, Matthieu Favre, Helmut Glimpel
  • Patent number: 11731204
    Abstract: A milling tool having a radial cutting edge for milling high-feed rates. The radial cutting edge having first, second and third sub-edges which extend at angles which are relatively small when formed with a longitudinal axis AL of the milling tool, thereby allowing the high-feed rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Hecht
  • Patent number: 11717895
    Abstract: Embodiments of a cutting insert are provided. The cutting insert includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a plurality of side surfaces extending between the upper surface and the lower surface, an insert hole extending through the upper surface and the lower surface, and a corner portion provided with a cutting edge. At least one of the upper surface and the lower surface has a plurality of recesses extending between the insert hole and the corner portion. The plurality of recesses includes a first recess into which one portion of the mounting portion is inserted when the cutting insert is supported by the mounting portion, and a second recess into which another portion of the mounting portion is inserted when the cutting insert is supported by the mounting portion. The second recess has a side wall spaced apart from another portion of the mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TaeguTec Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Hee Choi, Chang Won Jeong
  • Patent number: 11701719
    Abstract: A cutting insert adaptor for an insert pocket can include one or more pairs of opposing insert abutment surfaces and pocket abutment surfaces which converge at an acute angle. The one or more insert abutment surfaces are all rotated in the same direction, relative to their paired pocket abutment surface which in turn rotates a cutting insert abutting the cutting insert adaptor relative to an orientation the cutting insert would have if it only abutted the insert pocket instead of the cutting insert adaptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Daniel Hen
  • Patent number: 11701715
    Abstract: A cutting insert in a non-limiting embodiment may include a first surface, a second surface, a third surface and a land surface. The first surface may include a first corner and a first side extended from the first corner. The land surface may be located between the first surface and the third surface and inclined relative to the first surface and the third surface. The land surface may include a first land surface located along the first corner, a second land surface located along the first side, and a third land surface having a concave shape which is adjacent to the second land surface and located further away from the first land surface than the second land surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihito Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11660679
    Abstract: A tool body to which a replaceable cutting insert is fixed includes: a holder: an insert mounting seat that is provided on a first surface of the holder; a clamp member that constrains the cutting insert placed on the insert mounting seat; and an operating member that presses a pressure receiving surface of the clamp member. The clamp member has the pressure receiving surface, a spherical head portion that is formed into a spherical crown shape, and a hook portion that protrudes to a side opposite to a side of the spherical head portion when seen from a side of the first surface. The insert mounting seat supports the clamp member to be swingable with the spherical head portion as a fulcrum, and the hook portion contacts a diameter reducing portion that is formed on an inner peripheral surface of an mounting hole for the cutting insert in a state in which the pressure receiving surface is pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsumi Kato, Ryuichi Saji
  • Patent number: 11642726
    Abstract: Provided is a cutting insert having two cutting parts that is capable of entering a workpiece more deeply and easily supports machining of a groove or hole having a small diameter in a workpiece. A cutting insert includes: a body having at least an inner surface to be fixed to a tool body of a cutting tool and an outer surface opposed to the inner surface; and two cutting parts protruding in opposite directions in a longitudinal direction of the body. The cutting part includes: a cutting upper surface; a cutting front surface; and a first cutting side surface and a second cutting side surface. A front cutting edge is located on an edge between the cutting upper surface and the cutting front surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11642727
    Abstract: A turning insert includes a top surface, an opposite bottom surface, and a reference plane located parallel to and between the top and the bottom surfaces. A nose portion includes a convex nose cutting edge, and a first and a second cutting edge. The nose cutting edge connects the first and second cutting edges. The first and second cutting edges form a nose angle of 71-85° relative to each other. The nose portion has a third convex cutting edge adjacent to the first cutting edge and a fourth cutting edge adjacent to the third convex cutting edge. The fourth cutting edge forms an angle of 10-30° relative to a bisector. The distance from at least a portion of the fourth cutting edge to the reference plane increases at an increasing distance from the nose cutting edge. A second protrusion is arranged between the nose cutting edge and the first protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AB SANDVIK COROMANT
    Inventors: Adam Johansson, Ronnie Lof, Joe Truong
  • Patent number: 11638961
    Abstract: A cutting tool body for indexable inserts, and a round milling insert, are configured not to cause floating or rattling upon mounting the milling insert. The tool body includes a recessed portion for fitting one of a plurality of protrusions thereto, the protrusions being formed in the milling insert to protrude in the radial direction. The recessed portion has two inner surfaces having curved portions disposed so the distance between them gradually decreases at the contact area between the recessed portion and the protrusion fitted thereto. The milling insert includes protrusions protruding radially, any of which fit into a recessed portion on a mounting seat of the tool body. The protrusions each have two curved outer surfaces arranged so the distance between them gradually decreases toward a tip of the protrusion, at the contact area between the protrusion and the recessed portion into which the protrusion is fitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroya Shikama, Ryuichi Saji