Abstract: The frictional power transmission belt includes a frictional power transmission surface formed of a composite fibrous layer containing a fibrous member, an isocyanate compound, and a resin component, wherein the fibrous member contains a cellulose-based fiber. A proportion of each of the isocyanate compound and the resin component in the composite fibrous layer may be 2 to 15% by mass.

Abstract: In a screw thread cutter, a screw thread-cutting edge is formed on an outer periphery of a tip portion of a cutter body. Finishing edge-thread ridge height from a tangent line passing through valley bottoms of second and third valley portions to outer peripheral ends of first and second finishing edges are equal to each other. A preceding edge-thread ridge height from the tangent line to an outer peripheral end of a preceding edge is lower than each of the finishing edge-thread ridge height. A first valley portion-depth from the outer peripheral end of the first finishing edge to the valley bottom of the first valley portion is deeper than a second valley portion-depth from the outer peripheral end of the second finishing edge to the valley bottom of the second valley portion.

Abstract: This cutting insert has: as cutting edges, arcuate cutting edges that are of an arc shape protruding toward an outer circumference side of a distal end. A chisel part is formed at an intersecting ridge line part between the flank faces of the pair of arcuate cutting edges. A round honing is formed on the cutting edge tip of the arcuate cutting edge at least in a range where a radial angle is 30° or less. A curvature radius of the round honing in a cross section perpendicular to the edge length direction of the arcuate cutting edge is 20 to 40 ?m. A chisel angle formed between the distal end part of the arcuate cutting edge and a chisel edge of the chisel part is 150° to 170° as seen in an insert front view.

Abstract: In an indexable rotary cutting tool of the present invention, a cutting edge portion of an insert includes a peripheral cutting edge, a bottom cutting edge, a cutting edge of a corner R, and a chamfered surface, a radial rake angle (?) of the cutting edge of the corner R has a negative value in an entire edge length region of the cutting edge of the corner R, and the radial rake angle (?) becomes a minimum value at an intermediate portion located between a pair of boundary points (P, Q) in the cutting edge of the corner R.

Abstract: A titanium aluminum nitride coating having a columnar crystal structure, which is formed on a substrate, comprises high-Al TiAlN having an fcc structure, which has a composition represented by (Tix1, Aly1)N, wherein x1 and y1 are numbers meeting x1=0.005-0.1, and y1=0.995-0.9 by atomic ratio, and network-like, high-Ti TiAlN having an fcc structure, which has a composition represented by (Tix2, Aly2)N, wherein x2 and y2 are numbers meeting x2=0.5-0.9, and y2=0.5-0.1 by atomic ratio; the high-Al TiAlN being surrounded by the network-like, high-Ti TiAlN.

Abstract: An indexable rotary cutting tool and insert is capable of performing a high-accuracy cutting process with high efficiency. A twist angle of an outer peripheral cutting edge of the tool has a positive value, an axial rake angle of the cutting edge of a corner R of the tool at a boundary point between the cutting edge of the corner R and the outer peripheral cutting edge has a positive value, the axial rake angle of the cutting edge of the corner R at a reference point has a negative value, and the radial rake angle at least between the boundary point and the reference point in an entire edge length region of the cutting edge of the corner R has a negative value. The radial rake angle at the reference point is smaller than the radial rake angle at the boundary point.

Abstract: A method for producing a tool coated with a hard coating, the method including the following steps: applying a TiAIN coating layer onto a substrate with a first magnetron sputtering process and applying a TixSi1-xN coating layer onto the TiAIN layer with a second magnetron sputtering process, where x is smaller than or equal to 0.85 and preferably between and including 0.80 and 0.70 whereas the second magnetron sputtering process is performed with power densities greater than 100 W/cm2 and as such is a HIPIMS process.

Abstract: A detachable cutting insert for an indexable rotary cutting tool, has a cutting edge portion that includes a major cutting edge continuous with a first end of a first corner edge near a short-side-direction side surface, which is formed into a straight line. The cutting insert has a first minor cutting edge that is continuous with a second end of the major cutting edge, which is formed into a circular arc. The cutting insert has a second minor cutting edge that is continuous with a third end of the first minor cutting edge, which is formed into a straight line. In a cross-sectional view of a rake face of the second minor cutting edge, perpendicular to the second minor cutting edge, a cross-sectional ridgeline of the rake face of the second minor cutting edge is formed into a convex shape protruding above a cross-sectional ridgeline of a reference plane.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes a rake face, a flank surface, and a cutting edge, the cutting edge includes a bottom cutting edge that is positioned at a front end in a central axis direction and forms a convex arc shape and an outer peripheral cutting edge aligned with a radial-direction outer end of the bottom cutting edge and forms a convex arc shape of which a curvature radius is larger than that of the bottom cutting edge, an angle formed between a tangent line to a boundary point between the bottom cutting edge and the outer peripheral cutting edge and the central axis is less than 45°, a curvature radius R1 of the bottom cutting edge is 0.3 to 10 mm, and a ratio (R2/R1) of a curvature radius R2 of the outer peripheral cutting edge to the curvature radius R1 of the bottom cutting edge is 3.6 to 333.

Abstract: In a circular cutting insert of the present invention, the upper side surface and the lower side surface each include: a plurality of planar restraining faces which are disposed sequentially in a circumferential direction of the upper side surface and the lower side surface so as to interpose a joint portion between each of the planar restraining faces and each have a side disposed on the side surface-intermediate line (N); and a plurality of antivibration restraining faces which are each disposed between two planar restraining faces adjacent through the joint portion and each include an inclined face, and the restraining faces of the lower side surface are disposed so as to be shifted with respect to the restraining faces of the upper side surface by a predetermined angle (?) around a central axis of a screw insertion hole.

Abstract: A hard coating comprising a lower layer formed by an fcc-based titanium aluminum nitride coating, and an upper layer formed by an aluminum nitride coating having an hcp crystal system, the upper layer having a columnar crystal structure, the columnar crystals having an average transverse cross section diameter of 0.05-0.6 ?m, and a ratio of an X-ray diffraction peak value Ia(002) of (002) planes to an X-ray diffraction peak value Ia(100) of (100) planes in the upper layer meeting the relation of Ia(002)/Ia(100)?6.

Abstract: Square end mill includes long end cutting edge disposed from end portion on outer peripheral side in radial direction to center in the radial direction when a cutting edge portion is viewed from end face side, and short end cutting edges disposed from other end portions on outer peripheral side in radial direction to middles on center side in radial direction, first gashes disposed on regions from lines connecting end portions on center side in radial direction of the short end cutting edges to center in radial direction to the long end cutting edge on rear side in the rotation direction, second and third gashes disposed on rear and front sides in rotation direction of the first gashes, and all gashes formed in curved surface shapes depressed to a shank side on opposite side in axial direction of the cutting edge portion.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes a cutting edge portion, and the cutting edge portion includes a bottom cutting edge forming an arc shape that protrudes toward a front end side in a central axis direction, an outer peripheral cutting edge forming an arc shape that protrudes toward an outside in a radial direction, and a cutting edge of corner that connects an outer end of the bottom cutting edge in the radial direction and a front end of the outer peripheral cutting edge in the central axis direction and forms an arc shape that protrudes toward a front end outer circumferential side. The bottom cutting edge and the outer peripheral cutting edge are formed so as to form a linearly symmetric shape together with respect to an imaginary straight line that passes through an arc central point of the cutting edge of corner and intersects the central axis.