Patents by Inventor Haruyo Fukui

Haruyo Fukui has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240123514
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternative layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of AlaCr1-a-bCebN, a is more than 0.500 and 0.800 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of AlcV1-cN, c is 0.10 or more and 0.75 or less, and a and c satisfy a relationship of a>c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Anongsack PASEUTH, Toshihiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20240123513
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of AlaCr1-a-bCebN, a is 0.400 or more and 0.800 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of TicSi1-cN, and c is 0.200 or more and 0.990 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Anongsack PASEUTH, Toshihiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20240100603
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of Ti1-a-bAlaCebN, a is between greater than or equal to 0.350 and equal to or less than 0.650, b is between greater than or equal to 0.001 and equal to or less than 0.100, the second unit layer is composed of TicSi1-cN, and c is between greater than or equal to 0.20 and equal to or less than 0.99.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Anongsack PASEUTH, Toshihiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20240102173
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of Ti1-a-bAlaCebN, a is 0.350 or more and 0.650 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of AlcCr1-cN, c is 0.40 or more and 0.75 or less, and a and c satisfy a relationship of c>a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Anongsack PASEUTH, Toshihiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20240100606
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of Ti1-a-bAlaCebN, a is 0.350 or more and 0.650 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of AlcV1-cN, c is 0.40 or more and 0.75 or less, and a and c satisfy a relationship of c>a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Anongsack PASEUTH, Toshihiro TABATA
  • Patent number: 11872636
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating film formed on a surface of the base material. The coating film includes a first alternating layer and a second alternating layer formed on the first alternating layer. The first alternating layer includes first and second layers. The second alternating layer includes third and fourth layers. One or a plurality of the first layers and one or a plurality of the second layers are layered alternately, and one or a plurality of the third layers and one or a plurality of the fourth layers are layered alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroki Takeshita, Shuhei Misumi, Haruyo Fukui, Shinya Imamura, Kazuhiro Hirose
  • Publication number: 20230265565
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating film that is disposed on the substrate, wherein the coating film includes a first layer composed of metal tungsten and hexagonal ditungsten carbide, and the first layer has an elastic deformation rate of 43.0 or more and 58.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Sachiko KOIKE, Haruyo FUKUI, Keiichi TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230150035
    Abstract: Provided is a cutting tool that can have a long tool life even when used to cut soft metals in particular. The cutting tool comprises a base body and a hard carbon film arranged on the base body, the hard carbon film includes an amorphous phase and a graphite phase, the density of the hard carbon film is no less than 2.5 g/cm3 and no more than 3.5 g/cm3, the degree of crystallinity of the hard carbon film is no more than 6.5%, and the average coordination number of the amorphous phase is no less than 2.5 and no more than 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Daiji TABAYASHI, Yoshihiro SAITO, Kazuya TOKUDA, Yoshiharu UTSUMI, Hajime TAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20230123968
    Abstract: Provided is a cutting tool comprising a base body and a hard carbon film arranged on the base body, in which, when the cross section of the hard carbon film is observed using a high angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscope, the area proportion of black regions with an equivalent circle diameter of 10 nm or more is 0.7% or less, and the hard carbon film has a hydrogen content of 5 atom% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Daiji TABAYASHI, Haruyo FUKUI, Yoshiharu UTSUMI, Hajime TAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20230068515
    Abstract: Provided is a cutting tool comprising a base body and a hard carbon film arranged on the base body, in which the hard carbon film includes an amorphous phase and a graphite phase, the degree of crystallinity of the hard carbon film is no more than 6.5%, and the degree of orientation of the graphite phase is no more than 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiji TABAYASHI, Haruyo FUKUI, Yoshihiro SAITO, Kazuya TOKUDA, Yoshiharu UTSUMI, Hajime TAKAMATSU
  • Patent number: 11534836
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes: a substrate including a rake face and a flank face; a first coating film that coats the rake face; and a second coating film that coats the flank face, wherein the first coating film includes a first composite nitride layer at a region d1 on the rake face, the second coating film includes a second composite nitride layer at a region d2 on the flank face, the first composite nitride layer includes Ti1-x1-y1Alx1Tay1C?1N?1, the second composite nitride layer includes Ti1-x2-y2Alx2Tay2C?2N?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Kouhei Yoshimura, Haruyo Fukui, Makoto Setoyama, Keizo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11524339
    Abstract: A cutting tool incudes a substrate and a coating that coats a surface of the substrate, the coating including a multilayer structure layer composed of at least one layer A and at least one layer B alternately deposited from a side closer to the substrate toward a side closer to a surface, the layer A having an average composition of AlxCr(1-x)N, the layer B being composed of TiyAlzSi(1-y-z)N, the layer A being composed of a domain region and a matrix region, the domain region having a composition ratio of Cr larger than that of Cr of the matrix region, wherein x has a range of 0.5?x?0.8, y has a range of 0.5?y<0.71, z has a range of 0.29?z<0.5, and 1?y?z has a range of 0<1?y?z?0.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Keizo Tanaka, Shinya Imamura, Haruyo Fukui
  • Patent number: 11426801
    Abstract: A cutting tool comprises a rake face and a flank face, the cutting tool being composed of a substrate made of a cubic boron nitride sintered material and a coating provided on the substrate, the coating including a MAlN layer, the MAlN layer including crystal grains of MxAl1-xN in the cubic crystal system, nF<nR being satisfied, where nF represents a number of voids per 100 ?m in length of the MAlN layer on the flank face in a cross section of the MAlN layer, and nR represents a number of voids per 100 ?m in length of the MAlN layer on the rake face in a cross section of the MAlN layer, nD being 3 or less, where nD represents a number of droplets per 100 ?m in length of the MAlN layer on the flank face in a cross section of the MAlN layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Momoko Iida, Makoto Setoyama, Haruyo Fukui
  • Publication number: 20220226907
    Abstract: A cutting tool comprises a rake face and a flank face, the cutting tool being composed of a substrate made of a cubic boron nitride sintered material and a coating provided on the substrate, the coating including a MAlN layer, when a cross section of the MAlN layer is subjected to an electron backscattering diffraction image analysis to determine a crystal orientation of each of the crystal grains of the MxAl1?xN and a color map is created based thereon, then on the color map, the flank face having the MAlN layer occupied in area by 45% to 75% by crystal grains of the MxAl1?xN having a (111) plane with a normal thereto extending in a direction within 25 degrees with respect to a direction in which a normal to the flank face extends, the MAlN layer having a residual stress of ?2 GPa to ?0.1 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Makoto SETOYAMA, Momoko IIDA, Haruyo FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11370033
    Abstract: A surface coated cutting tool comprises a base material and a coating layer that coats the base material, the coating layer including an alternate layer composed of a first unit layer and a second unit layer alternately stacked, the first unit layer being composed of a nitride containing aluminum and zirconium, in the first unit layer, when the total number of metal atoms constituting the first unit layer is represented as 1, a ratio thereto of the number of atoms of the zirconium being not less than 0.65 and not more than 0.95, the second unit layer being composed of a nitride containing titanium and silicon, in the second unit layer, when the total number of metal atoms constituting the second unit layer is represented as 1, a ratio thereto of the number of atoms of the silicon being larger than 0 and not more than 0.20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Haruyo Fukui, Makoto Setoyama, Keizo Tanaka, Kouhei Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11298748
    Abstract: A surface coated cutting tool comprises a base material and a coating layer that coats the base material, the coating layer including an alternate layer composed of a first unit layer and a second unit layer alternately stacked, the first unit layer being composed of a nitride containing aluminum and zirconium, in the first unit layer, when the total number of metal atoms constituting the first unit layer is represented as 1, a ratio thereto of the number of atoms of the zirconium being not less than 0.65 and not more than 0.95, the second unit layer being composed of a nitride containing titanium and aluminum, in the second unit layer, when the total number of metal atoms constituting the second unit layer is represented as 1, a ratio thereto of the number of atoms of the aluminum being larger than 0.40 and not more than 0.70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Haruyo Fukui, Makoto Setoyama, Keizo Tanaka, Kouhei Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11167357
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating film. The coating film includes an alternate layer. The alternate layer includes a first layer having a first composition and a second layer having a second composition. The alternate layer is formed by alternately stacking at least one first layer and at least one second layer. The first layer and the second layer each have a thickness not smaller than 2 nm and not greater than 100 nm. The first composition is expressed as TiaAlbSicN (0.25?a?0.45, 0.55?b?0.75, 0?c?0.1, a+b+c=1). The second composition is expressed as TidAleSifN (0.35?d?0.55, 0.45?e?0.65, 0?f?0.1, d+e+f=1). The first composition and the second composition satisfy a condition of 0.05?d?a?0.2 and 0.05?b?e?0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Shuhei Misumi, Haruyo Fukui, Shinya Imamura, Kazuhiro Hirose, Hiroki Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20210213539
    Abstract: A cutting tool comprises a rake face and a flank face, the cutting tool being composed of a substrate made of a cubic boron nitride sintered material and a coating provided on the substrate, the coating including a MAIN layer, the MAIN layer including crystal grains of MxAl1-xN in the cubic crystal system, nF<nR being satisfied, where nF represents a number of voids per 100 ?m in length of the MAIN layer on the flank face in a cross section of the MAIN layer, and nR represents a number of voids per 100 ?m in length of the MAIN layer on the rake face in a cross section of the MAIN layer, nD being 3 or less, where nD represents a number of droplets per 100 ?m in length of the MAIN layer on the flank face in a cross section of the MAIN layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Momoko IIDA, Makoto SETOYAMA, Haruyo FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11033969
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating that coats a surface of the substrate, the coating including a multilayer structure layer composed of at least one layer A and at least one layer B alternately deposited from a side closer to the substrate toward a side closer to a surface, the layer A having an average composition of AlxCr(1-x)N, the layer B being composed of AlyTi(1-y)N, the layer A being composed of a domain region and a matrix region, the domain region having a composition ratio of Cr larger than that of Cr of the matrix region, wherein x has a range of 0.5?x?0.8 and y has a range of 0.5?y?0.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Keizo Tanaka, Shinya Imamura, Haruyo Fukui
  • Patent number: 10994339
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes a substrate composed of cemented carbide and a coating film. The coating film includes an intermediate layer in contact with the substrate and an upper layer formed on the intermediate layer. The upper layer is made up of a single layer consisting of an upper base layer which is a layer in contact with the intermediate layer or multiple layers constituted of two or more layers. A mismatch in lattice interplanar spacing in an interface region between the substrate and the intermediate layer is not higher than 65% of a theoretical value of a mismatch in lattice interplanar spacing between the substrate and the upper base layer. A mismatch in lattice interplanar spacing in an interface region between the intermediate layer and the upper base layer is not higher than 65% of the theoretical value of the mismatch in lattice interplanar spacing between the substrate and the upper base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keizo Tanaka, Makoto Setoyama, Haruyo Fukui, Akira Kobayashi, Koji Kuramochi