Abstract: Apparatus for treating and/or coating the surface of substrate components by deposition from the gas phase. A plurality of substrate carriers and a plurality of coating and/or treating units are arranged in a deposition or treatment chamber which can be evacuated. The system can be equipped in a modular fashion such that the substrate components introduced into the system in a batch can be subjected to different treatments. Method for treating and/or coating the surface of substrate components. The procedure comprises: a) compiling coating and/or treating units and shielding elements from modules in the deposition or treatment chamber; b) equipping the substrate carriers with those substrate components that are to be subjected to the same treatment; c) closing the deposition or treatment chamber; and d) carrying out the individual treatment or coating programs for the substrate components combined in groups on the substrate carriers in one batch.

Abstract: A cutting element for a tool to create a helically extending, trapezoidally undercut groove in a cylindrical surface of a bore. The cutting tool, preferably configured as a cutting insert, has groove-cutting teeth to create a symmetrically cross-sectioned groove which are arranged in series in a division harmonized with the pitch of the groove to be created. These groove-cutting teeth comprise at least one pre-machining tooth to create and machine a base groove and several trapezoidal teeth following the at least one pre-machining tooth, which have a tooth head profile which expands trapezoidally in cross-section in the vertical direction of the tooth with two flanks delimiting a flank angle for further machining the base groove to a trapezoidally undercut final cross-section. The flank angle delimited by the two flanks increases from at least one trapezoidal tooth to a following trapezoidal tooth to a defined final dimension.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a tool for removing a partial region of a coating from a substrate, in which the partial region to be removed is removed by a machining process in such a way that an undercutting of the partial region of the coating that is to be removed takes place. For the undercutting of the partial region of the coating that is to be removed, at least one machining tool that is rotating relative to the substrate about an axis of rotation is moved relative to the substrate along a direction of advancement that runs parallel to a surface having the coating, wherein a layer of the substrate that is directly adjacent to the coating is also removed together with the coating. Considered in the direction of advancement, the tool thereby penetrates deeper into the substrate than into the coating to be removed.

Abstract: A countersinking tool, comprising a tool shank and a tool head with multiple deburring or countersinking edges and an insertion pin. In some embodiments, the insertion pin features at least one reaming edge, on a radially outer side and extends over less than 33% of the overall length of the insertion pin, wherein the reaming edge can be inserted into an unfinished bore with a diameter, smaller than a nominal diameter of the bore, in a cutting fashion, wherein the reaming edge acts as a drill bit and is arranged on the insertion pin at a radius that corresponds to the radius of a nominal diameter of the bore, and wherein the insertion pin has the nominal diameter of the bore and can be guided in the bore without play. Also, a tool arrangement with a countersinking tool and to a method for producing a countersunk and/or deburred bore.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for assembling a tool system module, having a main body (G3C), which comprises a standard shank, such as a hollow-shank-taper (HSK) shank, and having a functional section (F5Y), such as a tool holder. In order to produce such tool system modules particularly economically, the functional section (F5Y) is paired with a main body (G3C) that is produced on separate production line, which is independent of the design or the production line of the functional section.

Abstract: A cutting tool comprising at least one blade arranged at an axial cutting head end of a tool carrier. The tool carrier comprises a chip-removal space that receives material chips removed by the blade. In some embodiments, the blade is adjacent to a chip passage feeding into the chip-removal space, which passage is limited by a radial chip gap partially limited by the blade and from there by a first and second passage surface, the first passage surface a continuation of the chip surface of the blade, the second passage surface running at an angle and widening relative to same, and is closed and limited at least in an axial sub-section facing the cutting head end, all around by a peripheral wall as a third passage surface, wherein at least one coolant channel is formed within the peripheral wall, which is provided to guide coolant to the cutting head end.

Abstract: A first diamond layer made of polycrystalline diamonds and doped with foreign atoms, is arranged on a metal surface of a machining tool, and is used to detect the degree of wear of an undoped polycrystalline second diamond layer, which is arranged on the doped diamond layer and forms a functional region of the machining tool, wherein at least one physical parameter is detected continuously or periodically during operation of the tool, and wherein a change in the parameter indicates the degree of wear of the undoped second diamond layer. The doped diamond layer forms an “intelligent stop layer” for the tool because as a result of change in the transition from the undoped to the doped layer, the conductivity of the system changes, for example, and this change can be used to form a stop signal for the machine drive before the tool and the machined workpiece are damaged.

Abstract: A method for coating solid diamond materials, to solder or bond coated diamond materials into a metallic surface or a second diamond surface under ambient air. The diamond materials are at least partially coated under a noble gas atmosphere by a vapour depositing process, the coating is performed with at least one carbide-forming chemical element selected from among B, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo and W; some diamond carbon is converted into elemental carbides, which form an elemental carbide layer; and wherein there is a stoichiometric excess of the chemical element in relation to the elemental carbides formed, so an element layer is deposited onto the surface of the elemental carbide layer or a mixed elemental carbide/element layer forms and is deposited on the element layer or mixed elemental carbide/element layer. Also, a machine component, in particular a tool, with a soldered-in solid PCD.

Abstract: A tool alignment device for mounting on a tool having a stop, especially on a drilling and/or countersinking tool having a single-piece tool shaft and a stop, for alignment of a drill hole and/or countersink to be introduced or for alignment of a finishing step in relation to a normal to the surface of a workpiece, comprising a main part and a through hole. Upon mechanical contact between the tool alignment device and the surface of the workpiece, a signaling device is actuated and emits alignment signal(s) during alignment in an alignment direction, and the stop of the tool can be accommodated in the main part, which comprises a guide device which establishes a connection between a stop sleeve of the stop and the tool alignment device such that the stop can be aligned in the alignment direction. Also, a drilling, milling and/or countersinking tool having a stop.

Abstract: A machining tool for deburring boreholes, which lead laterally into a recess, comprising: a shaft; a cutting head with at least one circumferential cutting blade associated with a chip groove and having a cutting edge extending, at least in sections, in an axial direction, and which can perform a cutting process by virtue of relative movement between the tool and a workpiece, and which lies on a virtual cylindrical rotation surface; and at least one cutting-blade-free and chip-groove-free surface area; at least one fluid channel closed on the cutting head side, extending through the shaft into the cutting head; and at least one branch channel with an outlet opening. The outlet opening is in a dynamic pressure active surface radially set back relative to the virtual rotation surface, and is larger than a flow cross-sectional area of the at least one branch channel at the outlet opening.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary tool (1; 101; 201; 301; 401) for cutting large inside diameters at the outer circumference (2) of which at least one cutting edge (4; 104; 204) is arranged, comprising a support structure (10; 110; 210; 310; 410) which includes a supporting area (14; 114; 214) which indirectly or directly supports the cutting edge (4; 104; 204), and comprising a chucking portion (24; 124; 224; 324; 424) for coupling to a tool holder, wherein the support structure (10; 110; 210; 310; 410) is designed in light-weight construction and the area (14; 114; 214) of the support structure (10; 110; 210; 310; 410) indirectly or directly supporting the cutting edge (4; 104; 204) is limited regarding thermal expansion by a corset structure (12; 112; 212; 312; 412).

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary tool (1; 101; 201) for cutting large inside diameters at the outer circumference (2) of which at least one cutting edge (4) is arranged, comprising a support structure (10; 110; 210) which indirectly or directly supports the at least one cutting edge (4), and comprising a chucking portion (24) for coupling to a tool holder, wherein the support structure (10; 110; 210) widens in an umbrella-type manner starting from a coupling portion (11) adjacent to the chucking portion (24) and is radially stiffened by a stiffening structure (12).

Abstract: A roughening tool for roughening the cylindrical surface of a bore in a particular metallic workpiece, e.g. the piston running surface of a cylinder bore or cylinder liner in an internal combustion engine, by generating a defined microstructure of a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart circumferential microgrooves. The roughening tool has a tool main body which can be driven in rotation about an axis of rotation and a multiplicity of circumferentially cutting cutting tools arranged at a defined axial distance from one another on the tool main body. According to the invention, the cutting tools are each formed from a disc milling cutter and each disc milling cutter has at least one cutting element with a multiplicity of cutting teeth arranged at an axial distance from one another. In addition, a method for roughening a cylindrical surface.

Abstract: An orienting apparatus for arranging on a turning tool and for orienting a bore or depression to be introduced or for orienting a finishing step with respect to a normal to the surface of a workpiece, comprising a main body having a through-hole for receiving the tool shank or the tool tip in an orienting direction, and at least two probe elements for oriented support on the surface of the workpiece. As a result of an orienting movement of the orienting apparatus with respect to the normal to the surface of the workpiece, all of the probe elements form an electric circuit between an electrical current source contained in the main body and the signaling device, said electric circuit being closed by a series circuit activated by the probe elements. Furthermore, a method for orienting a bore or depression or for orienting a finishing step with an orienting apparatus.

Abstract: A rotary tool, comprising: a tool main body comprising a clamping section and a tool head; an exchangeable first cutting insert having at least one first cutting region having a first cutting edge, wherein the first cutting insert can be inserted into an insert groove of the tool main body from the front side of the tool head and can be fastened therein in a rotationally fixed manner; and an exchangeable second cutting insert fastened to the tool head and offset toward the clamping section in the axial direction of the rotary tool relative to the first cutting insert and which has an insert main body and at least one second cutting region having at least one second cutting edge. A fastening means for the second cutting insert is arranged in the insert groove of the first cutting insert. Also, a cutting insert set and a tool main-body set.

Abstract: For producing a cylindrical surface that has a surface structure of predetermined geometry suitable for application of material by thermal spraying, a geometrically predetermined groove structure of minimal depth and width is introduced into the surface by a tool embodied as a follow-on tool in that a groove cross-section is processed successively to a final size. In order for the surface to be producible in mass production with constant quality, the groove structure is worked in such that first a base groove is introduced with a groove bottom width that is smaller than the groove bottom width of the finished groove. Subsequently, at least one flank of the base groove is processed for producing an undercut groove profile by a non-cutting action or cutting action wherein the introduced groove structure is deformed in such a way that the groove openings are constricted by upsetting deformations of material.

Abstract: A chip-removing tool for deburring bores, which laterally open into a cylindrical recess for example, comprising a shaft; a cutting head with at least one cutting wedge on the circumference, said cutting wedge being paired with a flute and having a cutter, which extends in an axial direction at least in some sections, carries out a cutting process on the basis of a relative movement between the tool and a workpiece, and lies on a virtual cylindrical rotational surface with a diameter that corresponds to the nominal diameter of the chip-removing tool, and at least one cutting wedge- and flute-free surface region; at least one fluid channel closed on the cutting head side and extending through the shaft and into the cutting head; and at least one puncture channel which starts from the fluid channel and comprises an opening that lies in the cutting wedge- and flute-free surface region.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool, in particular a rotating machining tool, comprising a support member, a cutting element that is releasably clamped to the support member, and a clamping jaw which is located on the support member, can be secured by means of a clamping screw and clamps the cutting element against the support member. According to the invention, a lifting element is provided between the support member and the clamping claw; when the clamping screw is unscrewed, said lifting element lifts the clamping jaw off the cutting element located on the support member.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stop for a rotating drilling, milling or countersinking tool which comprises a stop sleeve which is freely rotatably coupled, by means of a sliding or rolling bearing, around the tool. A first bearing bush of the bearing supports the stop sleeve. A second bearing bush of the bearing sits in a rotationally fixed manner on a shaft sleeve. The shaft sleeve can be pushed and fastened on a shaft of the tool. In a secondary aspect, the invention relates to a drilling, milling or countersinking tool having such a stop.

Abstract: A countersinking tool, comprising a tool shank and a tool head with multiple deburring or countersinking edges and an insertion pin. In some embodiments, the insertion pin features at least one reaming edge, on a radially outer side and extends over less than 33% of the overall length of the insertion pin, wherein the reaming edge can be inserted into an unfinished bore with a diameter, smaller than a nominal diameter of the bore, in a cutting fashion, wherein the reaming edge acts as a drill bit and is arranged on the insertion pin at a radius that corresponds to the radius of a nominal diameter of the bore, and wherein the insertion pin has the nominal diameter of the bore and can be guided in the bore without play. Also, a tool arrangement with a countersinking tool and to a method for producing a countersunk and/or deburred bore.