Patents by Inventor Naoki Watanobe
Naoki Watanobe 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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Publication number: 20220355388Abstract: A diamond tool includes a diamond at least on a cutting edge including one or two or more diamond grains including a diamond phase composed of a diamond crystal structure and a graphite phase composed of a graphite crystal structure. When a ratio I?*/I?* between an intensity of a ?* peak derived from a ? bond of carbon in the graphite phase and an intensity of a ?* peak derived from a ? bond of carbon in the graphite phase and a ? bond of carbon in the diamond phase is determined for the diamond grain by measuring an energy loss associated with excitation of K-shell electrons of carbon by electron energy loss spectroscopy, the ratio I?*/I?* of the diamond grain on a surface of the cutting edge is 0.1 to 2 and a ratio I?*/I?* of the diamond grain at a depth position of 0.5 ?m from the surface of the cutting edge is 0.001 to 0.1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Takashi HARADA, Satoru KUKINO, Naoki WATANOBE
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Publication number: 20220339719Abstract: A tool of the present disclosure includes a tip end portion. The tip end portion has a surface. At least a part of the surface includes a plurality of protrusions, a first recess provided by contact between ends of two adjacent protrusions of the protrusions, and a second recess different from the first recess. The second recess is provided inside at least one of the protrusions or provided to extend across the two adjacent protrusions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Rintaro SUGIMOTO, Takashi HARADA, Satoru KUKINO, Taisuke HIGASHI, Naoki WATANOBE, Mayuka SEGAWA
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Publication number: 20220274186Abstract: There is provided a diamond cutting tool including a cutting edge portion containing single crystal diamond or binderless polycrystalline diamond and graphite, wherein when Raman spectroscopy is performed on a surface of the cutting edge portion, a ratio R1 of Ig1 to a sum of Id1 and the Ig1 is equal to or more than 0.5 and equal to or less than 1, where the Idi represents a peak intensity of first carbon in the surface, the Ig1 represents a peak intensity of second carbon in the surface, the first carbon represents carbon that forms the single crystal diamond or the binderless polycrystalline diamond.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Akihiko UEDA, Naoki WATANOBE, Satoru KUKINO
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Publication number: 20220266400Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cutting tool having a rake face, a flank face, and an edge having a ridge line interconnecting the rake face and the flank face, wherein on the flank face there is a cutting edge region from the ridge line of the edge to a point A away therefrom on the side of the flank face by a distance X, the method comprising producing and processing the flank face with a laser, the producing and processing being producing and processing the cutting edge region along the ridge line of the edge with a first laser beam having a depth of focus equal to or deeper than a width of the cutting edge region when the distance X is the width of the cutting edge region, the distance X being 0.2 mm or more and 5 mm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Naoki WATANOBE, Gaku HARADA, Satoru KUKINO
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Publication number: 20210238716Abstract: A composite sintered material includes: a plurality of diamond grains having an average grain size of less than or equal to 10 ?m; a plurality of cubic boron nitride grains having an average grain size of less than or equal to 2 ?m; and a plurality of aluminum oxide grains having an average grain size of less than or equal to 0.5 ?m; and a remainder of a binder phase, wherein at least parts of adjacent diamond grains are bound to one another, the binder phase includes cobalt, in the composite sintered material, a content of the diamond grains is from 30 to 92 volume %, a content of the cubic boron nitride grains is from 3 to 40 volume %, a content of the aluminum oxide grains is from 2 to 15 volume %, and a content of the cobalt is from 3 to 30 volume %.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Naoki Watanobe, Takashi Harada, Katsumi Okamura, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi
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Patent number: 10625349Abstract: An object is to prolong the life of a cubic boron nitride cutting tool used for cutting a heat-resistant alloy. A cubic boron nitride cutting tool includes an edge tip made of a sintered cubic boron nitride compact including cubic boron nitride particles; and a base metal that holds the edge tip at a corner portion of the base metal, wherein a cutting edge formed on the edge tip of the tool has a positive rake angle.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Tsutomu Hirano, Katsumi Okamura, Naoki Watanobe
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Publication number: 20200102252Abstract: A composite sintered material includes a plurality of diamond grains, a plurality of cubic boron nitride grains, and a remainder of a binder phase, wherein the binder phase includes cobalt, a content of the cubic boron nitride grains in the composite sintered material is more than or equal to 3 volume % and less than or equal to 40 volume %, and an average length of line segments extending across continuous cubic boron nitride grains in appropriately specified straight lines extending through the composite sintered material is less than or equal to a length three times as large as an average grain size of the cubic boron nitride grains.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2018Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Naoki WATANOBE, Takashi HARADA, Katsumi OKAMURA, Akito ISHII, Satoru KUKINO, Taisuke HIGASHI
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Publication number: 20190271062Abstract: A composite sintered material includes: a plurality of diamond grains having an average grain size of less than or equal to 10 ?m; a plurality of cubic boron nitride grains having an average grain size of less than or equal to 2 ?m; and a remainder of a binder phase, wherein at least parts of adjacent diamond grains are bound to one another, the binder phase includes cobalt, in the composite sintered material, a content of the diamond grains is more than or equal to 30 volume % and less than or equal to 94 volume %, a content of the cubic boron nitride grains is more than or equal to 3 volume % and less than or equal to 40 volume %, and a content of the cobalt is more than or equal to 3 volume % and less than or equal to 30 volume %.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2017Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicants: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Katsumi Okamura, Naoki Watanobe, Akito Ishii, Takashi Harada, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi
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Patent number: 10272498Abstract: A composite sintered material contains cubic boron nitride particles and binder particles. The composite sintered material contains 40 vol % or more and 80 vol % or less of the cubic boron nitride particles. The binder particles contain TiCN particles. The composite sintered material shows a first peak belonging to a (200) plane of the TiCN particles in a range in which a Bragg angle 2? is 41.7° or more and 42.6° or less in an X-ray diffraction spectrum measured using a Cu-K? ray as a ray source.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Naoki Watanobe, Yusuke Matsuda, Katsumi Okamura, Nozomi Tsukihara, Makoto Setoyama
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Publication number: 20190076920Abstract: A sintered material contains hard particles composed of one or more selected from the group consisting of cubic boron nitride, Al2O3, AlON, SiAlON, TiC, TiCN, TiN, WC, and diamond, a metallic binder phase mainly composed of Co or Ni and containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Al, W, V, and Ti, and Al2O3 dispersed in the metallic binder phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2016Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Akito Ishii, Naoki Watanobe, Takashi Harada, Satoru Kukino
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Patent number: 10160083Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cubic boron nitride cutting tool including a base metal and sintered cubic boron nitride compact at a corner portion of the base metal, capable of improving the accuracy of the center height and reducing the angle of inclination or width of a negative rake face; and the cubic boron nitride cutting tool. The method includes grinding the compact by pressing it against an end face of a grindstone of a grinder to form flank and rake faces on the compact while the base metal of the cutting tool is held by a chuck of the grinder, so that the compact is substantially ground. The rake face is formed to be recessed from a top face of the base metal or only a portion of the compact that protrudes from a base-metal rake face is ground while the tool is continuously held by the chuck.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Naoki Watanobe, Katsumi Okamura, Hiroki Yonekura, Yosuke Korogi
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Publication number: 20180311744Abstract: An object is to prolong the life of a cubic boron nitride cutting tool used for cutting a heat-resistant alloy. A cubic boron nitride cutting tool includes an edge tip made of a sintered cubic boron nitride compact including cubic boron nitride particles; and a base metal that holds the edge tip at a corner portion of the base metal, wherein a cutting edge formed on the edge tip of the tool has a positive rake angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Tsutomu HIRANO, Katsumi OKAMURA, Naoki WATANOBE
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Patent number: 10010940Abstract: An object is to prolong the life of a cubic boron nitride cutting tool used for cutting a heat-resistant alloy. A cubic boron nitride cutting tool includes an edge tip made of a sintered cubic boron nitride compact having a thermal conductivity within the range of 20 to 70 W/m·K and including cubic boron nitride particles having an average particle diameter within the range of 0.5 ?m to 2 ?m; and a base metal that holds the edge tip at a corner portion of the base metal, wherein a cutting edge formed on the edge tip of the tool has a positive rake angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Tsutomu Hirano, Katsumi Okamura, Naoki Watanobe
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Patent number: 9956619Abstract: A cutting tool includes a cutting insert that is held in a holder in a detachable manner. The cutting insert has a substantially regular quadrangular shape in plan view and includes four round corners. The cutting insert is formed of CBN sinter as a whole. The cutting insert includes two principal surfaces that are upper and lower surfaces opposite to each other, and four side surfaces that are arranged so as to connect the principal surfaces to each other. A boundary portion (ridge line portion) between each of the principal surfaces and each of the side surfaces forms a cutting edge. In a central portion of each of the side surfaces of the cutting insert, a groove for absorbing a crack, having a substantially V-shape in cross section, is formed all around the cutting insert so as to be recessed with respect to the side surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Katsumi Okamura, Yosuke Korogi, Naoki Watanobe, Nozomi Tsukihara, Hiroki Yonekura
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Publication number: 20170014915Abstract: A compound sintered body contains cubic boron nitride particles and binder particles. The composite sintered body contains 40 vol % or more and 80 vol % or less of the cubic boron nitride particles. The binder particles contain TiCN particles. The composite sintered body shows a first peak belonging to a (200) plane of the TiCN particles in a range in which a Bragg angle 2? is 41.7° or more and 42.6° or less in an X-ray diffraction spectrum measured using a Cu-K? ray as a ray source.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Naoki Watanobe, Yusuke Matsuda, Katsumi Okamura, Nozomi Tsukihara, Makoto Setoyama
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Patent number: D787578Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Naoki Watanobe, Katsumi Okamura, Yosuke Korogi, Hiroki Yonekura
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Patent number: D789430Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Naoki Watanobe, Katsumi Okamura, Yosuke Korogi, Hiroki Yonekura
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Patent number: D937330Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Satoru Kukino, Takashi Harada, Naoki Watanobe
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Patent number: D960214Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Satoru Kukino, Gaku Harada, Takashi Harada, Naoki Watanobe, Soichiro Kakinoki, Keita Miyamoto, Hironari Moroguchi
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Patent number: D964440Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Takashi Harada, Naoki Watanobe, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi, Rintaro Sugimoto