Patents Examined by SAra Addisu
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12214430
    Abstract: A milling tool includes a shank section and a head, the head provided on a tip end side of the shank section and having cutting edges. The head includes an expanding diameter section and a contracting diameter section, the expanding diameter section gradually increasing in diameter as it spans toward the tip end from a base end portion adjoining the shank section, and the contracting diameter section gradually decreasing in diameter as it spans toward the tip end from a maximum diameter section. At least one cutting edge is provided on each of the expanding diameter section and the contracting diameter section. At least one tip-end cutting edge that extends from the contracting diameter section to a center axis of the milling tool is provided on a tip end portion of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fukuhito Nagata, Ryoichi Miyamoto, Hiroshi Ueno
  • Patent number: 12214434
    Abstract: A machine tool and a control device for the machine tool for shortening the machining time of a workpiece in a case where the relative and reciprocal vibration of workpiece holder and tool post in the radial direction of the workpiece is stopped during a period from an initial point until when the workpiece and the cutting tool come into contact with each other is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Sannomiya
  • Patent number: 12202052
    Abstract: A boring tool holder has a base member and a cutting insert holding member. The base member has a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. The cutting insert holding member is contiguous to the base member on the first main surface, and disposed in a circumferential direction of the base member as viewed in a direction from the first main surface toward the second main surface. A cross-sectional area of the base member in a cross section perpendicular to the direction from the first main surface toward the second main surface and intersecting the base member is larger than a cross-sectional area of the cutting insert holding member in a cross section perpendicular to the direction from the first main surface toward the second main surface and intersecting the cutting insert holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Tohkairin
  • Patent number: 12202059
    Abstract: A first main trajectory represents a trajectory of a first main cutting edge obtained by revolving and projecting the first main cutting edge onto a plane including a central axis. A second main trajectory represents a trajectory of the second main cutting edge obtained by revolving and projecting the second main cutting edge onto the plane. The first main trajectory intersects the second main trajectory. A tangent to the first main trajectory at an intersection between the first main trajectory and the second main trajectory is inclined to be closer to the central axis in a direction from the first surface toward the second surface. A tangent to the second main trajectory at the intersection is inclined to be closer to the central axis in a direction from the second surface toward the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventor: Takahiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12194550
    Abstract: A cutting insert according to an embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a circular double-sided cutting insert including a top surface, a bottom surface, a lateral surface, and a cutting edge, and mounted to a cutting tool, in which a plurality of clearance surfaces and a plurality of fastening surfaces are located on the lateral surface, and among the plurality of fastening surfaces, a fastening surface, which is brought into contact with the cutting tool upon mounting of the cutting insert to the cutting tool, forms an acute angle with respect to the top surface or the bottom surface acting as a rake surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KORLOY INC.
    Inventors: Nam Seon Lee, Ki Chan Nam, Min Seok Oh
  • Patent number: 12179273
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine tool (1) comprising a clamping holder (10) which extends along a longitudinal axis (3) and a cutting element (20) that can be inserted into an open tool-side recess (40), which passes through the clamping holder (10), transversely to the longitudinal axis (3). The machine tool (1) has a stop (30) which is secured in the recess (40) and against which the cutting element (20) rests in the direction transverse to the longitudinal axis (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Guehring KG
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Hollfelder
  • Patent number: 12179274
    Abstract: A tool holder for a tool for machining a workpiece. The tool holder has a cutting insert receptacle for receiving a cutting insert, wherein the cutting insert receptacle has an upper clamping jaw for abutting an upper surface of the cutting insert and a lower clamping jaw for abutting a lower surface of the cutting insert opposite the upper surface. Further, the tool holder has an internal coolant channel extending inside the tool holder between a coolant inlet opening and a coolant outlet opening, wherein an end portion of the coolant channel extending inside the upper clamping jaw along a channel center axis opens into the coolant outlet opening. The coolant outlet opening is arranged at the upper clamping jaw and configured as an elongated opening. A width of the coolant outlet opening is smaller than a height of the coolant outlet opening measured orthogonally to the width of the coolant outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hartmetall-Werkzeugfabrik Paul Horn GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Luik
  • Patent number: 12172219
    Abstract: A cutting tool used for turning operations is releasably secured to a tool holder. The cutting insert includes top and bottom insert surfaces, each surface including two pairs of insert wedge surfaces. The tool holder includes an insert pocket having a pocket top surface and a pocket bottom surface. When the cutting tool is assembled, only one of the two pairs of insert wedge surfaces of the insert top surface engages the pocket top surface, and only one of the two pairs of insert wedge surfaces of the insert bottom surface engage the pocket bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Hecht
  • Patent number: 12172222
    Abstract: A turning tool includes a tool body, insert seat and a turning insert. The turning insert has a top surface and an opposite bottom surface, a reference plane between the top and bottom surfaces, and a center axis intersecting the top and bottom surfaces. A circular cutting edge of the insert is concentric in relation to the center axis. The bottom surface includes a set of radial grooves and a set of flat surfaces. The flat surfaces extend in a plane parallel to the reference plane. The insert seat includes a bottom surface and a rear surface. The bottom surface of the insert seat has a first ridge and a support surface, wherein at least one of the flat surfaces of the turning insert is in contact with the support surface. A cross-section of the first ridge is smaller than a corresponding cross section of one of the radial grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: AB Sandvik Coromant
    Inventor: Fredrik Marell
  • Patent number: 12162083
    Abstract: A cutter includes: a cutter main body rotated; and cutting edges disposed on an outer periphery of a front of the cutter main body, wherein a mounting hole penetrating through the cutter main body is formed, an opening portion opening in a front of the cutter main body, a housing portion provided on a rear of the opening portion to house a head portion of a headed bolt, and a female thread portion are formed in the mounting hole, a mounting part including a male thread portion in an outer periphery is mounted to the female thread portion, the male thread portion screwable to the female thread portion, and a through hole having a smaller inner diameter than the head portion is formed in the mounting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Hagiwara, Shigeru Ishimori, Hidehiko Nagaya, Hiroshi Hoki
  • Patent number: 12157174
    Abstract: A tube-facing machine includes a driving unit including a driving shaft and a motor for rotating the driving shaft, a cutting unit including a cutting tip mounted to the front end of the driving shaft and having a blade, and a tube-mounting unit. The cutting tip is disposed such that an angle between an imaginary reference line extending outwards from the center point of the tube in a radial direction and an imaginary line extending from the center point of the tube to a point at which the blade meets the inner circumference of the tube in a rotating direction of the cutting tip is greater than an angle between the imaginary reference line and another imaginary line extending from the center point of the tube to a point at which the blade meets the outer circumference of the tube in the rotating direction of the cutting tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Inventor: In Sung Choi
  • Patent number: 12134134
    Abstract: A cutting insert is mountable on a body. The cutting insert includes: a top surface; a bottom surface opposite to the top surface; a side surface contiguous to the top surface and the bottom surface; and a cutting edge formed at a ridgeline between the top surface and the side surface. The side surface has a first surface disposed adjacent to the cutting edge and a second surface contiguous to the first surface. When viewed in a cross sectional view parallel to the bottom surface, the second surface has a first position and a second position that are brought into abutment with the body when mounted on the body. Between the first position and the second position, an imaginary straight line extending through the first position and the second position is separated from the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Kouki Matsubara, Tomoyuki Fukuyama, Shota Takemura, Shota Tsujimoto, Naoki Matsuda
  • Patent number: 12128483
    Abstract: A cutting insert may include a first surface including a corner and a first side, a second surface, a third surface, an inclined surface located between the first surface and the third surface, a first ridgeline located on an intersection of the inclined surface and the first surface, and a second ridgeline located on an intersection of the inclined surface and the third surface. An imaginary straight line passing through a center of the first surface and a center of the second surface may be a central axis. In a cross section which is parallel to the central axis and is orthogonal to the first side, an imaginary straight line connecting the first ridgeline and the second ridge line may be a first straight line, and the inclined surface may include a first inclined surface located more away from the central axis than the first straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihito Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12115588
    Abstract: A clamping device is configured to clamp a cutting insert onto a holder of a cutting tool. The clamping device contains a clamping bolt and a locking bolt, wherein the clamping bolt is configured to be inserted into each of the cutting insert and the holder. The locking bolt is configured to be inserted into the holder, such that the locking bolt pre-strains the clamping bolt into clamping the cutting insert onto the holder. The clamping bolt is configured rotatable about a longitudinal clamping axis of the clamping bolt relative to each of the cutting insert and the locking bolt, such that the clamping bolt wedge engages with the locking bolt during a clamping bolt rotation about the longitudinal clamping axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: CERATIZIT Luxembourg S.a.r.l.
    Inventor: Jonathan Marbehant
  • Patent number: 12115587
    Abstract: A cutting insert may include an upper surface, a lower surface, a front lateral surface and a rear lateral surface. The upper surface may include a first upper cutting edge and an upper constraining surface. The lower surface may include a lower constraining surface. The lower constraining surface may include a lower groove. The lower groove may include a first region, a second region and a third region. The first region may be located on a side opposite to the upper constraining surface. A wedge angle of the first region may be a first angle, a wedge angle of the second region may be a second angle, and a wedge angle of the third region may be a third angle. The first angle may be smaller than each of the second angle and the third angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Muranishi
  • Patent number: 12103088
    Abstract: A holder may include a base, an antenna and a sensor. The base has a bar shape extended along a central axis from a first end toward a second end. The base may include a metal member and a first resin. The metal member may include a pocket that is attachable of an insert including a cutting edge. The first resin may be located closer to the second end than the metal member. The antenna may be covered with the first resin. The sensor may be located closer to the pocket than the antenna and may be wired connected to the antenna, and may be measurable a state of the base. This configuration may contribute to solving the problem that handling of wiring becomes complicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigetaka Hashimoto, Chiharu Yamazaki, Hirokazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12097564
    Abstract: Large diameter edges formed in arc shapes having curvature radii larger than a ball radius are provided. This allows improving surface roughness of a machined surface by cutting of a planar surface with the respective large diameter edges compared with cutting of a planar surface with a ball end cutting edge formed in an arc shape having a single curvature radius. Further, since the respective large diameter edges are formed in the arc shape, compared with cutting of a curved surface with linear cutting edges, surface roughness of a machined surface can be improved by cutting a curved surface with the respective large diameter edges. Accordingly, a pick feed during the cutting of the planar surface and the curved surface with the respective large diameter edges can be increased, and therefore machining efficiency in the cutting of both of the planar surface and the curved surface can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhito Fujii, Yasuyuki Endoh