Patents Assigned to Seco Tools AB
  • Patent number: 12280434
    Abstract: A cutting insert for a cutting tool includes a body having a cutting edge, a rake face, and micro channels provided on the rake face adjacent the cutting edge. The micro channels define a grid pattern of micro channels that intersect each other in a region of the rake face where contact between a chip and the rake face is assumed to occur during cutting with the cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Rachid M'Saoubi, Zhirong Liao, Jimmy Thelin, Dragos Axinte
  • Patent number: 12251766
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes a first and a second pair of opposing side surfaces. As seen towards a first side surface, a first axial relief face and a first axial abutment face form part of a first surface grouping on a first side of a longitudinal plane. As seen towards a second side surface, a second axial relief face and a second axial abutment face form part of a second surface grouping on the first side of the longitudinal plane. The first axial abutment face forms a substantially flat surface and extends perpendicularly to a median plane of the insert. The second axial abutment face forms a substantially flat surface and extends perpendicularly to the median plane. A second side surface of the first pair of opposing side surfaces has a first and a second radial abutment face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Fredrik Kantojarvi
  • Patent number: 12197182
    Abstract: A system for utilizing an identification marker on a tool part for determining a dimension thereof. The system includes a reader device for reading a machine readable code, and an electronic device connected to the reader device. The electronic device has a processing circuitry that causes the system to detect with the reader device, an identification marker at a tool part, wherein the identification marker is a unique machine readable code read by the reader device, and the unique machine readable code of the identification marker, and obtain from the unique machine readable code, individual dimension information data including at least one individually measured dimension of the tool part measured when manufacturing the tool part. A method and a computer program product for utilizing an identification marker on a tool part to be used for determining a dimension of the tool part and to a tool part is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Micael Baudin, Jan Gravningsbraten
  • Patent number: 12064822
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a cutting insert having an anti-rotation stopping indent formed in a transition between a bottom surface and a side surface thereof and includes a first stop surface. The insert seat has at least one anti-rotation stop, which protrudes with respect to a side wall of the insert seat and includes a second stop surface. The anti-rotation stop is arranged to inhibit rotation of the cutting insert in the insert seat by contact between the first and second stop surfaces. The second stop surface is completely located within the anti-rotation stopping indent when the cutting insert is mounted. As seen in a section perpendicular to a common central axis, an angle of less than 180° is formed between a tangent to the second stop surface and a tangent to the first duct at a transition between the two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Antoine Bonenfant, Pascal Derimay
  • Patent number: 12036613
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a tool head includes forming a first and a second part from a powder composition. The first and the second parts include corresponding joining surfaces, and the parts have outer surface portions configured to form portions of a peripheral envelope surface of the tool head. The method further includes forming corresponding grooves in the corresponding joining surfaces, assembling the parts into a shape of a tool head by bringing the joining surfaces into contact to form an interface, so that each pair of corresponding grooves forms a channel extending in the interface, the channel having an inlet opening in a rear end of the tool head and an outlet opening in a front end or in the peripheral envelope surface of the tool head, and joining the assembled parts in a sintering operation to form the tool head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Stefan Frejd
  • Patent number: 11890685
    Abstract: A rotatable cutting tool for machining of a honeycomb core includes a front end; a rear end; a peripheral surface extending between the front and rear ends; a set of helical flutes formed in the peripheral surface at a first helix angle 45°???65°, having a first depth; and a set of helical ridges. At least one helical groove formed in the peripheral surface at a second helix angle 90°<??100°, has a second depth, which is smaller than the first depth. The at least one helical groove intersects the helical ridges so that a plurality of cutting teeth are formed on each helical ridge. Each cutting tooth includes a second ridge formed in a transition between two lands, a cutting edge and a clearance edge join in a tooth tip constituting the radially outermost point of the cutting tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Massimo Paletta, Hans Hermans
  • Patent number: 11365472
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a body and a PVD coating disposed on the body. The body being cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, polycrystalline diamond, polycrystalline cubic boron nitride based materials or a high speed steel. The coating includes a first layer of (Ti1-xAlx)N wherein 0.3?x?0.7, and a second layer of (Ti1-p-qAlp Siq)N with 0.15?p?0.45, and 0.05?q?0.20, wherein the second layer is deposited outside the first layer as seen in a direction from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Gied Rutten, Lennart Karlsson
  • Patent number: 11097351
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a cutting insert comprising a top surface, a bottom surface, a clamping surface for abutting a clamp, a cutting edge, a hole extending through the insert from the bottom surface to the clamping surface, and a channel extending from the clamping surface to proximate the cutting edge, and a tool holder comprising a tool holder body having a pocket for receiving the insert, a clamp for contacting the clamping surface and clamping the insert in the pocket, and a tool holder passage in the body in flow communication with the hole in the insert. A cutting insert is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Volker Höfermann
  • Patent number: 10682713
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes a rake end surface having four corners and, in a center thereof, a central surface portion. A supporting end surface has four corners and, in a center thereof, a central supporting surface portion. A peripheral side surface extends between the rake end surface and the supporting end surface. The peripheral side surface includes two opposing major side surfaces. A hole extends through the cutting insert from one of the major side surfaces to the other of the major side surfaces, wherein the central surface portion is disposed at a greater distance from a central axis (A) of the hole than is the central supporting surface portion. The single-sided cutting insert has a corner radii or cutting edge radii that extend over at least a quarter of a width of the cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Per Rickard Jansson
  • Patent number: 10654119
    Abstract: A hobbing tool includes a hob body having at least one axially extending slot, and at least one cassette removably disposed in the at least one slot. The at least one cassette includes at least one seating recess having at least a bottom abutment surface and two side abutment surfaces. At least one cutting insert is removably mounted in the at least one seating recess. The at least one cutting insert has at least one bottom supporting surface and two side supporting surfaces that abut the bottom abutment surface and the two side abutment surfaces when the at least one cutting insert is received in the at least one seating recess. The hob body includes a plurality of axially extending slots. The hobbing tool also includes a corresponding plurality of cassettes removably mounted in the plurality of axially extending slots. Each cassette of the plurality of cassettes is identical to every other cassette of the plurality of cassettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Andrea Consonni
  • Patent number: 10428417
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a body and a hard and wear resistant PVD coating on the body, wherein the body is made from a cemented carbide, cermet, ceramics, polycrystalline diamond or polycrystalline cubic boron nitride based materials. The coating includes a first (Ti,Al)-based nitride sub-coating and a second (Ti,Al)-based nitride sub-coating. The first (Ti,Al)-based nitride sub-coating can be a single layer, and the second (Ti,Al)-based nitride sub-coating can be a laminated structure, wherein the first (Ti,Al)-based nitride sub-coating includes a (Ti1-xAlx)Nz-layer where 0.1<x<0.4, 0.6<z<1.2, and wherein the second (Ti,Al)-based nitride sub-coating includes a (Ti1-x1-y1Alx1Cry1)Nz1 layer where 0.5<x1<0.75, 0.05<y1<0.2, 0.6<z1<1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Jon Andersson, Mats Johansson Jöesaar, Stefan Larsson
  • Publication number: 20190030613
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a tool holder body having a shank portion and a head portion, and an indexable cutting insert arranged in a cutting insert seat. The cutting insert includes a cutting edge and a clearance surface. The insert seat has a first convex wall and a second convex wall and at least one bottom surface at which the cutting insert is arranged to abut. The convex walls are situated on separate pins, which are perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to each other when seen in a side view. The second convex wall is situated below the cutting edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Andreas J. LARSSON, Mats JONSSON, Jimmy THELIN
  • Patent number: D953389
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Kent Karlsson, Rikard Flodman
  • Patent number: D953390
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Kent Karlsson, Rikard Flodman
  • Patent number: D953391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Kent Karlsson, Rikard Flodman
  • Patent number: D953392
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Kent Karlsson, Rikard Flodman
  • Patent number: D961644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SECO Tools AB
    Inventors: Kent Karlsson, Rikard Flodman
  • Patent number: D961645
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SECO Tools AB
    Inventors: Kent Karlsson, Rikard Flodman
  • Patent number: D1051187
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SECO Tools AB
    Inventors: Sudarshan Patil, Magnus Sjölind, Tommy Pitkänen, Prathmesh Sant, Thommy Ukkonen
  • Patent number: D1051188
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SECO Tools AB
    Inventors: Sudarshan Patil, Magnus Sjölind, Tommy Pitkänen, Prathmesh Sant, Thommy Ukkonen