Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on the base material. The coating includes an ?-Al2O3 layer. The ?-Al2O3 layer contains a plurality of ?-Al2O3 crystal grains and chlorine, and has a TC(006) of more than 5 in texture coefficient TC(hkl). The ?-Al2O3 layer includes lower and upper layers, the lower layer is located closer to the base material than the upper layer is, and the upper layer is located opposite to the base material across the lower layer, in a thickness direction of the ?-Al2O3 layer. The lower layer has a thickness of 1.0 ?m. The upper layer has a thickness of 0.5 ?m or more. The chlorine in the lower layer has a concentration distribution in which an atomic concentration CCl of the chlorine decreases in a direction away from the base material, in a thickness direction of the lower layer.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on the base material. The coating includes a hard layer. The hard layer includes a plurality of crystal grains having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure. When the angle of intersection between the normal direction to (001) plane that is a crystal plane of the crystal grain and the normal direction to the surface of the base material is measured, a proportion A of the crystal grains having the angle of intersection of 0 degree or more to less than 20 degrees is 50% or more. The length of ?3 grain boundaries is 50% or more of the length of ?3-29 grain boundaries and is 1% or more and 30% or less of the total length of all boundaries that is the sum of the length of ?3-29 grain boundaries and the length of general boundaries.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on a surface of the base material. The coating includes a first hard coating layer including crystal grains having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure. The crystal grain has a layered structure in which a first layer composed of nitride or carbonitride of AlxTi1?x and a second layer composed of nitride or carbonitride of AlyTi1?y are stacked alternately into one or more layers. The first layer each has an atomic ratio x of Al varying in a range of 0.6 or more to less than 1. The second layer each has an atomic ratio y of Al varying in a range of 0.45 or more to less than 0.6. The largest value of difference between the atomic ratio x and the atomic ratio y is 0.05?x?y?0.5.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on a surface of the base material. The coating includes a first hard coating layer including crystal grains having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure. The crystal grain has a layered structure in which a first layer composed of nitride or carbonitride of AlxTi1?x and a second layer composed of nitride or carbonitride of AlyTi1?y are stacked alternately into one or more layers. The first layer each has an atomic ratio x of Al varying in a range of 0.76 or more to less than 1. The second layer each has an atomic ratio y of Al varying in a range of 0.45 or more to less than 0.76. The largest value of difference between the atomic ratio x and the atomic ratio y is 0.05?x?y?0.5.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on the base material. The coating includes an ?-Al2O3 layer. The ?-Al2O3 layer contains ?-Al2O3 crystal grains and sulfur, and has a TC(006) of more than 5 in texture coefficient TC(hkl). The sulfur has a concentration distribution in which a concentration of the sulfur decreases in a direction away from a base-material-side surface of the ?-Al2O3 layer, in a thickness direction of the ?-Al2O3 layer.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on the base material. The coating includes a hard layer. The hard layer includes a plurality of crystal grains having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure. When the angle of intersection between the normal direction to (001) plane that is a crystal plane of the crystal grain and the normal direction to the surface of the base material is measured, a proportion A of the crystal grains having the angle of intersection of 0 degree or more to less than 20 degrees is 50% or more. The length of ?3 grain boundaries is 50% or more of the length of ?3-29 grain boundaries and is 1% or more and 30% or less of the total length of all boundaries that is the sum of the length of ?3-29 grain boundaries and the length of general boundaries.

Abstract: A coating is formed from one layer or two or more layers, at least one of the layers includes a multi-layer structure in which a first unit layer composed of TiN and a second unit layer composed of Ti1-xAlxN are alternately stacked, the first unit layer has an fcc crystal structure, and the second unit layer has an fcc crystal structure, X in Ti1-xAlxN being not smaller than 0.6 and not greater than 0.9.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on a surface of the base material. The coating includes a first hard coating layer including crystal grains having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure. The crystal grain has a layered structure in which a first layer composed of nitride or carbonitride of and a second layer composed of nitride or carbonitride of AlyTi1-y are stacked alternately into one or more layers. The first layer each has an atomic ratio x of Al varying in a range of 0.6 or more to less than 1. The second layer each has an atomic ratio y of Al varying in a range of 0.45 or more to less than 0.6. The largest value of difference between the atomic ratio x and the atomic ratio y is 0.05?x?y?0.5.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on a surface of the base material. The coating includes a first hard coating layer including crystal grains having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure. The crystal grain has a layered structure in which a first layer composed of nitride or carbonitride of AlxTi1-x and a second layer composed of nitride or carbonitride of AlyTi1-y are stacked alternately into one or more layers. The first layer each has an atomic ratio x of Al varying in a range of 0.76 or more to less than 1. The second layer each has an atomic ratio y of Al varying in a range of 0.45 or more to less than 0.76. The largest value of difference between the atomic ratio x and the atomic ratio y is 0.05?x-y?0.5.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating. A hard layer in the coating includes a plurality of crystal grains having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure. When the angle of intersection between the normal direction to (111) plane that is a crystal plane of the crystal grain and the normal direction to the surface of the base material is measured, a proportion A of the crystal grains having the angle of intersection of 0 degree or more to less than 20 degrees is 50% or more. The length of ?3 grain boundaries is less than 50% of the length of ?3-29 grain boundaries. The crystal grain has a layered structure in which a first layer and a second layer are alternately stacked. The total thickness of the first layer and the second layer adjacent to each other is 3 to 40 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a surface-coated cutting tool having both high wear resistance and high fracture resistance and having an indicator function that significantly facilitates the determination of the usage of a cutting edge. A surface-coated cutting tool according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate and a coating formed on the substrate. The coating includes a plurality of layers. A surface layer of the plurality of layers is a titanium boride layer made of TixBy (where x and y are expressed as atomic percentages and satisfy 1.5<y/x<2.5) and has a compressive residual stress of 0.1 GPa or more in absolute value.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention includes a coating. The coating includes an ?-Al2O3 layer. Each of the ?-Al2O3 layers on a side of a rake face and a side of a flank face shows (001) orientation. In the ?-Al2O3 layer on the rake face side, a length LR3 of a ?3 crystal grain boundary exceeds 80% of a length LR3-29 of a ?3-29 crystal grain boundary and is not lower than 10% and not higher than 50% of a total length LR of all grain boundaries. In the ?-Al2O3 layer on the flank face side, a length LF3 of a ?3 crystal grain boundary exceeds 80% of a length LF3-29 of a ?3-29 crystal grain boundary and is not lower than 10% and not higher than 50% of a total length LF of all grain boundaries. A ratio LR3/LR3-29 is lower than a ratio LF3/LF3-29.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention includes a coating. The coating includes an ?-Al2O3 layer. Each of the ?-Al2O3 layers on a side of a rake face and a side of a flank face shows (001) orientation. In the ?-Al2O3 layer on the rake face side, a length LR3 of a ?3 crystal grain boundary exceeds 80% of a length LR3-29 of a ?3-29 crystal grain boundary and is not lower than 10% and not higher than 50% of a total length LR of all grain boundaries. In the ?-Al2O3 layer on the flank face side, a length LF3 of a ?3 crystal grain boundary exceeds 80% of a length LF3-29 of a ?3-29 crystal grain boundary and is not lower than 10% and not higher than 50% of a total length LF of all grain boundaries. A ratio LR3/LR3-29 is higher than a ratio LF3/LF3-29.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention is provided with a base material and a coating formed on the base material, the coating includes an ?-Al2O3 layer, the ?-Al2O3 layer includes a plurality of crystal grains of ?-Al2O3 and shows (001) orientation, a grain boundary of the crystal grains contains a CSL grain boundary and a general grain boundary, and a length of a ?3 crystal grain boundary out of the CSL grain boundary exceeds 80% of a length of a ?3-29 crystal grain boundary and is equal to or more than 10% and equal to or less than 50% of the total length of all grain boundaries which is the sum of the length of the ?3-29 crystal grain boundary and a length of the general grain boundary.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on the base material. The coating includes an ?-Al2O3 layer. The ?-Al2O3 layer contains a plurality of ?-Al2O3 crystal grains and a plurality of ?-Al2O3 crystal grains, and has a TC(006) of more than 5 in a texture coefficient TC(hkl). A ratio of C? to a sum of C? and C?: [C?/(C?+C?)×100](%) is 0.05 to 7%, where C? is a total number of peak counts of the ?-Al2O3 crystal grains obtained from measurement data of x-ray diffraction for the coating, and C? is a total number of peak counts of the ?-Al2O3 crystal grains obtained from the measurement data of the x-ray diffraction for the coating.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on the base material. The coating includes an ?-Al2O3 layer containing a plurality of ?-Al2O3 crystal grains. The ?-Al2O3 layer includes: a first region made up of an edge ridgeline, a region A of a rake face, and a region B of a flank face; a second region which is a region of the rake face except for the region A and covered with the coating; and a third region which is a region of the flank face except for the region B. The ?-Al2O3 layer satisfies a relation b?a>0.5, where a is an average value of a TC(006) in the first region in texture coefficient TC(hkl) and b is an average value of the TC(006) in the second region or the third region in texture coefficient TC(hkl).

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating formed on the base material. The coating includes an ?-Al2O3 layer containing a plurality of ?-Al2O3 crystal grains. The ?-Al2O3 layer includes a lower layer portion disposed at a side of the base material, an intermediate portion disposed on the lower layer portion, and an upper layer portion disposed on the intermediate portion. In a crystal orientation mapping performed on a polished cross-sectional surface of the ?-Al2O3 layer using an EBSD, an area ratio of ?-Al2O3 crystal grains with (001) orientation in the lower layer portion is less than 35%, an area ratio of ?-Al2O3 crystal grains with (001) orientation in the intermediate portion is 35% or more, and an area ratio of ?-Al2O3 crystal grains with (001) orientation in the upper layer portion is less than 35%.

Abstract: A coating included in a surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention has an ?-Al2O3 layer. In a 15-?m square color map of a processed surface in parallel to a surface of the ?-Al2O3 layer, an area A1 occupied by coarse crystal grains A is ?50% and an area A2 in the area A1 occupied by crystal grains having a (001) plane orientation is ?90%, an area B1 occupied by medium-sized crystal grains B of ?-Al2O3 is 20 to 50%, an area B2 in the area B1 occupied by crystal grains having the (001) plane orientation is ?90%, an area C1 occupied by fine crystal grains C of ?-Al2O3 is 10 to 50%, an area C2 in the area C1 occupied by crystal grains having the (001) plane orientation is ?50%.

Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention includes a coating. The coating has an ?-Al2O3 layer. The ?-Al2O3 layer includes a lower layer portion and an upper layer portion. When respective crystal orientations of crystal grains of ?-Al2O3 are specified by performing EBSD analyses with an FE-SEM on a cross-section obtained when the ?-Al2O3 layer is cut along a plane including a normal line of a surface of the ?-Al2O3 layer and a color map is prepared based on the crystal orientations, in the color map, an area in the upper layer portion occupied by the crystal grains of which normal direction of a (001) plane is within ±10° with respect to a normal direction of the surface of the ?-Al2O3 layer is equal to or more than 90%, and such an area in the lower layer portion is equal to or less than 50%.

Abstract: A surface coated member having improved stability and a longer service life is provided. The surface coated member of the present invention includes a base member and a hard coating formed on a surface thereof. The hard coating is constituted of one or more layers. At least one of the layers is formed by a CVD method and includes a multilayer structure having a first unit layer and a second unit layer being layered alternately. The first unit layer includes a first compound containing Ti and one or more kind of element selected from the group consisting of B, C, N, and O. The second unit layer includes a second compound containing Al and one or more kind of element selected from the group consisting of B, C, N, and O.