Patents by Inventor Machiko Abe
Machiko Abe 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).
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Patent number: 12611719Abstract: A diamond cutting tool comprises a base metal part and a diamond part joined to the base metal part, wherein the base metal part is made of an alloy containing tungsten carbide, the diamond part configures at least a cutting blade, the cutting blade comprises a portion of a rake face, a portion of a flank face, and a ridge line at which the rake face and the flank face cross, the diamond cutting tool has a region A, the region A is a region that is present bridging over the three, which are the rake face, the ridge line, and the flank face on the surface of the cutting blade, and the region A has a surface roughness Ra of not more than 0.2 ?m and a concentration of tungsten element of not more than 1 mass %.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 28, 2026Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Akihiko Ueda, Mayuka Segawa, Rintaro Sugimoto, Machiko Abe, Takashi Harada, Satoru Kukino
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Patent number: 12571079Abstract: cBN sintered material, including cBN particles; a binder phase; and a first phase, wherein the content of the cBN particles in the cBN sintered material is 25% to 80% by volume, the binder phase contains either or both of one or more first compounds, and a solid solution derived from the first compound, the first phase contains cobalt, tungsten, and at least one first element selected from the group consisting of the elements contained in the binder phase, the total content of cobalt and tungsten in the cBN sintered material is 1.0% to 6.0% by mass, the binder phase consists of multiple binder phase particles containing 50% or more of first binder phase particles on a number basis, surfaces of the first binder phase particles include 50% by area or more of a first region which is in contact with the first phase.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2024Date of Patent: March 10, 2026Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Tsutsumiuchi, Yusuke Matsuda, Yuh Ishida, Yuka Deguchi, Machiko Abe, Satoru Kukino, Akito Ishii, Katsumi Okamura
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Publication number: 20260062355Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material includes: 40 to 80 volume % of cubic boron nitride grains; and 20 to 60 volume % of a binder phase, wherein an average grain size d of the cubic boron nitride grains is 0.1 to 3 ?m, the binder phase includes at least one selected from a second group consisting of a simple substance of one element selected from a first group, an alloy consisting of two or more elements selected from the first group, and an intermetallic compound consisting of two or more elements selected from the first group, or at least one selected from a fourth group consisting of a first compound and a solid solution originated from the first compound, and in a cross section of the cubic boron nitride sintered material, a variation coefficient Z of an area ratio of the cubic boron nitride grains is 0.25 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2024Publication date: March 5, 2026Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryosuke SAKON, Yuya KISHIDA, Yu KAWAMURA, Yusuke MATSUDA, Machiko ABE, Hironari MOROGUCHI, Akito ISHII
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Patent number: 12350744Abstract: A drill includes a blade tip part that is formed of diamond and a trunk part that is formed of diamond and is continuous with the blade tip part, the drill rotating about a drill axis, the blade tip part includes N cutting edges where N is an integer of no less than 4, and a proportion of S1 to S2 is no less than 30% and no more than 60%, where S1 is an area of the drill in a cross-section with the drill axis as a normal line, the cross-section including a boundary between the blade tip part and the trunk part, r is a maximum value of a distance from the drill axis to an outer edge of the drill in the cross-section and S2 is an area of a circle with r as a radius.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Mayuka Segawa, Machiko Abe, Akihiko Ueda, Yoshinori Tanigawa, Takashi Harada
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Publication number: 20250163548Abstract: cBN sintered material, including cBN particles; a binder phase; and a first phase, wherein the content of the cBN particles in the cBN sintered material is 25% to 80% by volume, the binder phase contains either or both of one or more first compounds, and a solid solution derived from the first compound, the first phase contains cobalt, tungsten, and at least one first element selected from the group consisting of the elements contained in the binder phase, the total content of cobalt and tungsten in the cBN sintered material is 1.0% to 6.0% by mass, the binder phase consists of multiple binder phase particles containing 50% or more of first binder phase particles on a number basis, surfaces of the first binder phase particles include 50% by area or more of a first region which is in contact with the first phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2024Publication date: May 22, 2025Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuki TSUTSUMIUCHI, Yusuke MATSUDA, Yuh ISHIDA, Yuka DEGUCHI, Machiko ABE, Satoru KUKINO, Akito ISHII, Katsumi OKAMURA
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Patent number: 11958782Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material comprising cubic boron nitride grains, a binder phase, and a void, in which a percentage of the cubic boron nitride grains based on the total of the cubic boron nitride grains and the binder phase is 40 vol % to 70 vol %, a percentage of the binder phase based on the total of the cubic boron nitride grains and the binder phase is 30 vol % to 60 vol %, the binder phase includes 10 vol % to 100 vol % of aluminum oxide grains, an average grain size of the aluminum oxide grains is 50 to 250 nm, the cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises 0.001 vol % to 0.100 vol % of one or more first voids, and at least one portion of each of the first voids is in contact with the aluminum oxide grains.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Kento Yamada, Machiko Abe, Hironari Moroguchi, Akihiko Ueda, Satoru Kukino
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Publication number: 20230286869Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material comprising cubic boron nitride grains, a binder phase, and a void, in which a percentage of the cubic boron nitride grains based on the total of the cubic boron nitride grains and the binder phase is 40 vol % to 70 vol %, a percentage of the binder phase based on the total of the cubic boron nitride grains and the binder phase is 30 vol % to 60 vol %, the binder phase includes 10 vol % to 100 vol % of aluminum oxide grains, an average grain size of the aluminum oxide grains is 50 to 250 nm, the cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises 0.001 vol % to 0.100 vol % of one or more first voids, and at least one portion of each of the first voids is in contact with the aluminum oxide grains.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Kento YAMADA, Machiko ABE, Hironari MOROGUCHI, Akihiko UEDA, Satoru KUKINO
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Publication number: 20230013675Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material includes: 0 to 85 volume % of cubic boron nitride grains; and a binder phase, wherein the binder phase includes at least one selected from a group consisting of one or more first compounds and a solid solution originated from the first compounds, the cubic boron nitride grains include, on number basis, more than or equal to 50% of cubic boron nitride grains each having an equivalent circle diameter of more than 0.5 ?m, and includes, on number basis, less than or equal to 50% of cubic boron nitride grains each having an equivalent circle diameter of more than 2 ?m, and when a mass of the cubic boron nitride grains is assumed as 100 mass %, a total content of lithium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, beryllium, and barium in the cubic boron nitride grains is less than 0.001 mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Machiko ABE, Satoru KUKINO, Michiko MATSUKAWA, Taisuke HIGASHI
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Publication number: 20230013990Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material includes: to 98 volume % of cubic boron nitride grains; and a binder phase, wherein the binder phase includes at least one selected from a group consisting of one or more first compounds and a solid solution originated from the first compounds, the cubic boron nitride grains include, on number basis, more than or equal to 50% of cubic boron nitride grains each having an equivalent circle diameter of more than 0.5 ?m, and includes, on number basis, less than or equal to 50% of cubic boron nitride grains each having an equivalent circle diameter of more than 2 ?m, and when a mass of the cubic boron nitride grains is assumed as 100 mass %, a total content of lithium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, beryllium, and barium in the cubic boron nitride grains is less than 0.001 mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Machiko ABE, Satoru KUKINO, Michiko MATSUKAWA, Taisuke HIGASHI
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Publication number: 20220297201Abstract: A diamond cutting tool comprises a base metal part and a diamond part joined to the base metal part, wherein the base metal part is made of an alloy containing tungsten carbide, the diamond part configures at least a cutting blade, the cutting blade comprises a portion of a rake face, a portion of a flank face, and a ridge line at which the rake face and the flank face cross, the diamond cutting tool has a region A, the region A is a region that is present bridging over the three, which are the rake face, the ridge line, and the flank face on the surface of the cutting blade, and the region A has a surface roughness Ra of not more than 0.2 ?m and a concentration of tungsten element of not more than 1 mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Akihiko UEDA, Mayuka SEGAWA, Rintaro SUGIMOTO, Machiko ABE, Takashi HARADA, Satoru KUKINO
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Publication number: 20220288699Abstract: A drill includes a blade tip part that is formed of diamond and a trunk part that is formed of diamond and is continuous with the blade tip part, the drill rotating about a drill axis, the blade tip part includes N cutting edges where N is an integer of no less than 4, and a proportion of S1 to S2 is no less than 30% and no more than 60%, where S1 is an area of the drill in a cross-section with the drill axis as a normal line, the cross-section including a boundary between the blade tip part and the trunk part, r is a maximum value of a distance from the drill axis to an outer edge of the drill in the cross-section and S2 is an area of a circle with r as a radius.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Mayuka SEGAWA, Machiko ABE, Akihiko UEDA, Yoshinori TANIGAWA, Takashi HARADA
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Patent number: 11434550Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material includes 40% by volume or more and 96% by volume or less of cubic boron nitride grains and 4% by volume or more and 60% by volume or less of a binder phase, and the cubic boron nitride grains have a dislocation density of less than 1×105/m2.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Machiko Abe, Satoru Kukino, Michiko Matsukawa
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Patent number: 11214522Abstract: A polycrystalline cubic boron nitride comprising 96% by volume or more of cubic boron nitride, wherein the cubic boron nitride has a dislocation density of more than 8×1015/m2, the polycrystalline cubic boron nitride comprises a plurality of crystal grains, and the plurality of crystal grains have a median diameter d50 of an equivalent circle diameter of less than 100 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Michiko Matsukawa, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi, Machiko Abe
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Patent number: 11208324Abstract: A polycrystalline cubic boron nitride comprising 98.5% by volume or more of cubic boron nitride, wherein the cubic boron nitride has a dislocation density of more than 8×1015/m2, the polycrystalline cubic boron nitride comprises a plurality of crystal grains, and the plurality of crystal grains have a median diameter d50 of an equivalent circle diameter of 0.1 ?m or more and 0.5 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Michiko Matsukawa, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi, Machiko Abe
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Patent number: 11186485Abstract: A polycrystalline cubic boron nitride comprising 96% by volume or more of cubic boron nitride, wherein the cubic boron nitride has a dislocation density of 8×1015/m2 or less, the polycrystalline cubic boron nitride comprises a plurality of crystal grains, and the plurality of crystal grains have a median diameter d50 of an equivalent circle diameter of less than 100 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Michiko Matsukawa, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi, Machiko Abe
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Patent number: 11161790Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises 30% by volume or more and 80% by volume or less of cubic boron nitride grains and 20% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less of a binder phase, the cubic boron nitride grains having a dislocation density of 3×1017/m2 or more and 1×1020/m2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hironari Moroguchi, Michiko Matsukawa, Satoru Kukino, Akito Ishii, Katsumi Okamura, Machiko Abe, Kenta Sano
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Publication number: 20210246077Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises 30% by volume or more and 80% by volume or less of cubic boron nitride grains and 20% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less of a binder phase, the cubic boron nitride grains having a dislocation density of 3×1017/m2 or more and 1×1020/m2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hironari MOROGUCHI, Michiko MATSUKAWA, Satoru KUKINO, Akito ISHII, Katsumi OKAMURA, Machiko ABE, Kenta SANO
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Publication number: 20210246076Abstract: The cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises 30% by volume or more and 80% by volume or less of cubic boron nitride grains and 20% by volume or more and 70% by volume or less of a binder phase, the cubic boron nitride grains having a dislocation density of 1×1015/m2 or more and 1×1017/m2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hironari MOROGUCHI, Michiko MATSUKAWA, Satoru KUKINO, Akito ISHII, Katsumi OKAMURA, Machiko ABE, Kenta SANO
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Publication number: 20210238036Abstract: A polycrystalline cubic boron nitride comprising 98.5% by volume or more of cubic boron nitride, wherein the cubic boron nitride has a dislocation density of more than 8×1015/m2, the polycrystalline cubic boron nitride comprises a plurality of crystal grains, and the plurality of crystal grains have a median diameter d50 of an equivalent circle diameter of 0.1 ?m or more and 0.5 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Michiko MATSUKAWA, Satoru KUKINO, Taisuke HIGASHI, Machiko ABE
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Patent number: D966359Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Akihiko Ueda, Yoshinori Tanigawa, Machiko Abe