Patents Examined by SAra Addisu
  • Patent number: 12365036
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes a first surface, a second surface, and an outer peripheral side surface. A ridgeline between the first surface and the outer peripheral side surface forms a first ridgeline. A ridgeline between the second surface and the outer peripheral side surface forms a second ridgeline. The first ridgeline includes a first straight portion, a first wiper edge, a first corner cutting edge, and a second straight portion. The second ridgeline includes a third straight portion, a second wiper edge, a second corner cutting edge, and a fourth straight portion. The outer peripheral side surface includes a first wiper flank surface, a first corner flank surface, a second wiper flank surface, a second corner flank surface, a first plane, and a second plane. The first plane is contiguous to each of the first corner flank surface and the second wiper flank surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., AISIN FUKUI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Maeno, Junya Okida, Daichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12358060
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a main body. The main body includes a distal end surface, a rear end surface, and a side surface. A spiral first groove and a spiral second groove are formed on the side surface of the main body. The first groove has at least four installation surfaces. The first installation surface is located on a most rear end surface side. The second installation surface is located closer to a distal end surface side with respect to the first installation surface. A length from the first installation surface to the second groove in a circumferential direction along the rotation direction of the main body is set to a first length. A length from the second installation surface to the second groove in the circumferential direction is set to a second length. The first length is longer than the second length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Kazunori Morishige, Katsuya Nakakihara
  • Patent number: 12350745
    Abstract: A cutting tool according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a shaft portion and cutting edge portions. The main cutting edge portions have a main cutting edge. In a section within ±30% of a blade length of a region from a center of the region in a direction along the central axis, the main cutting edge portions have first and second nick portions. The main cutting edge portions are formed in the region. The relationship between the first nick portion and the second nick portion satisfies at least one of a first condition and a second condition. The first condition is that a width of the first nick portion is different from a width of the second nick portion. The second condition is that a depth of the first nick portion is different from a depth of the second nick portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventor: Shuhei Misumi
  • Patent number: 12343808
    Abstract: Provided is a structure for improving accuracy in attaching a cutting tool to a body and making it possible to increase the number of blades while the cutting tool is mounted on the body. A cutting insert 1 includes: an upper surface 10 that has a shape with a lengthwise direction LD and a widthwise direction SD; a lower surface that is located opposite to the upper surface 10; a peripheral side surface 30 that is formed so as to connect the upper surface 10 and the lower surface; cutting edges 51 and 52 that are respectively formed on an intersecting ridge line of the upper surface 10 and the peripheral side surface 30, and on an intersecting ridge line of the lower surface and the peripheral side surface 30, and each have a curved ridge line that extends in a lengthwise direction thereof; and a through hole 60 that penetrates from the upper surface 10 to the lower surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Issei Hori, Ryuichi Saji
  • Patent number: 12337400
    Abstract: A rotary tool may include a holder and a cutting insert. The cutting insert may include an upper surface including a first upper side, a lower surface including a first lower side, and a lateral surface. The lateral surface may include a first lateral surface, a second lateral surface, and a third lateral surface. The first upper side may include a first end. The first end may be located closer to the third lateral surface than the second lateral surface. The first lower side may include a second end. The second end may be located closer to the second lateral surface than the third lateral surface. In a front view of the upper surface, the first lateral surface may include a tip region surrounded by the first end and the second end, and the tip region may be recessed toward the rear end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironori Nishikoori
  • Patent number: 12337401
    Abstract: A milling tool includes a cutting insert, a holder, a fastener and a shim. The fastener forms a first channel cooperatively with the cutting insert. The first channel is configured to direct coolant towards a top side of the insert. In order to better prevent thermal fatigue of the cutting insert under milling conditions, the shim includes a second channel configured to direct coolant towards a clearance side of the cutting insert. A method of using a milling tool and a milling process are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: CERATIZIT Luxembourg S.a.r.l.
    Inventor: Fabien Kister
  • Patent number: 12337391
    Abstract: A cutting insert may include an upper surface, a lower surface, a lateral surface and a cutting edge. The upper surface may include a first corner, a first side, a second side and a rake surface. The cutting edge may include a first cutting edge located on the first corner, and a second cutting edge located on the first side. The first cutting edge may include a first part. The first part may be located between a midportion of the first corner and the first side, and may come closer to a reference plane as going away from the first side. The rake surface may include a first region located along the first part. A rake angle in the first region may become smaller as coming closer to the midportion of the first corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ayumi Nagata
  • Patent number: 12337402
    Abstract: A machining device threads a workpiece by relatively rotating the workpiece and a multi-blade tool and relatively moving them along a feed direction to perform cutting processes in the radial direction of the workpiece along the same cutting path in a predetermined spiral form. A controller performs a groove machining to form a threaded portion with vibration in the radial direction of the workpiece and a finish machining to form the threaded portion by bringing the multi-blade tool into contact with the grooved portion of the workpiece. The multi-blade tool has a first cutting blade and a second cutting blade arranged side by side along the feed direction. The controller sets amplitude of a vibration waveform to a value at which a cutting edge of the second cutting blade does not come into contact with the screw bottom surface of the workpiece in the finish machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sannomiya, Shinichi Mutou
  • Patent number: 12330220
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool for machining, in particular for a peeling-like machining process, comprising a chip-forming depression which runs along the cutting edge and in which elevated chip-forming elements are formed. According to the invention, the elevated chip-forming elements have an elongated contour with a length which is greater than the width, in plan view, such that the chip-forming elements have a rising flank and a falling flank. The rising flank, which is longer by comparison, is defined by a rising angle (?) of 3° to 20°, preferably 5° to 10°, and a falling angle (?) of 25° to 45°, preferably 27° to 35°, and the transition between the rising flank and the falling flank is rounded, the radius (R) of said rounded section ranging between 0.05 mm and 1 mm, preferably between 0.25 mm and 0.4 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: ZCC CUTTING TOOLS EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Quanliang Zhao, Jose Agustin-Paya, Robert Militello
  • Patent number: 12325078
    Abstract: A cutting insert has an upper surface having a long side, a short side, a lower surface, a lateral surface and a through hole. The lateral surface has a first lateral surface. The first lateral surface has a first plane that is overlapped with a central axis of the through hole in a front view and is parallel to the central axis, a second plane that is located closer to the short side than the first plane and is parallel to the central axis, a third plane that is located more away from the short side than the first plane and is parallel to the central axis, and a first inclined surface that is located between the second plane and the upper surface and comes closer to the central axis as coming closer to the long side. The first inclined surface is located away from the first plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hironori Nishikoori
  • Patent number: 12311485
    Abstract: Provided are a coolant supply device and a machine tool in which ejection of a coolant is easily switched on and off. A coolant supply device 10 for supplying a coolant to a workpiece machining area in a machine tool, the coolant supply device comprising: a rotary nozzle 40 formed to have a cylindrical shape and having, at an outer circumferential face thereof having the cylindrical shape, an ejection port 51 for ejecting the coolant; and a supply device body 20 rotatably supporting the rotary nozzle and configured to be capable of supplying the coolant to the rotary nozzle. The supply device body is configured to be capable of switching an ejection allowed range in which the ejection port is opened and an ejection stopped range in which the ejection port is blocked from each other in accordance with rotation of the rotary nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Yabe, Tadayasu Shida, Yosuke Ando, Shinpei Kai
  • Patent number: 12296426
    Abstract: Disclosed is a machine tool ELECTRICAL DRIVING SYSTEM capable of selectively transmitting power of a motor for driving a spindle in a lathe which machines a workpiece to a rotation system including a drawbar and a spindle for driving a chuck, using a clutch mechanism. The machine tool ELECTRICAL DRIVING SYSTEM includes a housing, a hollow tubular spindle rotatably installed inside the housing, a drive pulley rotatably installed with respect to the spindle outside the spindle, a spindle motor, a drawbar installed to be linearly movable with respect to the spindle but non-rotatable relative to the spindle, a motion conversion unit configured to convert a rotary motion of the drive pulley into a forward-rearward linear motion of the drawbar, a clutch unit, a position detection unit configured to the drive pulley to detect an amount of rotation and a rotation position of the drive pulley, and a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: KHANSTN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongseon Yun, Bonsaeng Ku
  • Patent number: 12290865
    Abstract: A milling tool includes a main body and a plurality of cutting inserts with respective cutting edges. The main body has an end face and a barrel-shaped curved lateral face. A first group of the plurality of cutting inserts are fastened on the end face, a second group of the plurality of cutting inserts are fastened on the barrel-shaped curved lateral face, and the respective cutting edges describe a barrel shape. Each one of the plurality of cutting inserts may be designed as an indexable insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernhard Sanders, Stefan Conrad
  • 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: 12280439
    Abstract: The first seating surface is contiguous to each of the front end surface and the outer circumferential surface. The second seating surface is contiguous to the front end surface. The cutting tool body is provided with a recess contiguous to each of the first seating surface, the second seating surface, and the front end surface. When the front end surface is viewed in a direction from the front end surface toward the rear end surface, a length of the recess in a direction perpendicular to a straight line parallel to the central axis and extending along the first seating surface is equal to or longer than three times as long as a length of the recess in a direction perpendicular to the first seating surface and passing through a contact point of the second seating surface, the recess, and the front end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Kouki Matsubara, Tomoyuki Fukuyama, Shota Takemura, Shota Tsujimoto, Naoki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 12280438
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly includes: a cutter body extending perpendicularly from a bottom surface and including a cylindrical portion with a rotational axis; insert pockets disposed and formed concavely in the bottom surface and the cylindrical portion to be spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction; fixed cutting inserts mounted within the insert pockets and disposed at the outermost portion of the cutter body in a radial direction; and stepped cutting inserts mounted within the insert pockets, the stepped cutting insert being disposed between two adjacent fixed cutting inserts. The fixed cutting insert is disposed to have an identical length from the rotational axis and an identical length from the bottom surface. At least one stepped cutting insert is disposed to have a different length from the rotational axis and a different length from the bottom surface compared to the remaining stepped cutting inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TaeguTec Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Gyu Park, Sung Kook Cheon
  • Patent number: 12275070
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to perform machining on a double-curved surface to have good finished surface characteristics while achieving high speed feeding. An end mill (2) is provided with a bottom blade (2A) formed in a curved convex and circular arc shape, and a radius blade (2B) located at the edge and formed in a circular arc shape. The bottom blade (2A) has a region where a blade part is not formed on the axis of the end mill (2), and the end mill (2) is further provided with a center blade (2C) in the region of the bottom blade (2A). The center blade (2C) is formed in a circular arc shape with a radius smaller than that of the circular arc part of the bottom blade (2A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Eto, Hirokazu Unno
  • 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: 12233468
    Abstract: An indexable cutting insert, arranged for being mounted in an insert seat of a tool body of a shoulder milling tool, includes a triangular top surface, a triangular bottom surface, and three circumferential surfaces extending between the top and bottom surface. On each side of the cutting insert an individual one of the three circumferential surfaces extends along an edge of the triangular top surface and along an edge of the triangular bottom surface. The cutting insert includes at each of the top and bottom surfaces three cutting corners, three main cutting edges and three minor cutting edges. Each cutting corner connects a main cutting edge and a minor cutting edge. Each of the cutting corners, each of the main cutting edges and each of the minor cutting edges are provided at an intersection between the top surface or the bottom surface and one of the circumferential surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventor: Alexander Jung
  • Patent number: 12226837
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel groove cutter with chip breaker, including: a cutter body; a cutter head arranged at the end part of the cutter body, a cutting edge being arranged at a bordering position of the cutter head; and a chip breaker arranged on the cutter head, wherein the chip breaker comprises a breaker bottom and a breaker wall, the breaker bottom being connected to the cutting edge, the breaker wall being arranged on one side of the breaker bottom away from the cutting edge, the breaker bottom being non-coplanar with the breaker wall, an intersecting line of the breaker bottom and the breaker wall including multiple connecting sections, and one curved transition section being arranged between two adjacent connecting sections. By means of the technical solutions provided in the present application, the problem that breaking chips in a groove machining process is difficult in the prior art can be solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING WORLDIA DIAMOND TOOLS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zongchao Zhang, Qi Han, Shuo Han, Yanyan Wang