Abstract: In a grinding wheel in which abrasive tips for rough grinding and abrasive tips for finish grinding are alternately bonded to a periphery of a disk type base rotating about a rotation axis, each abrasive tip includes the abrasive layer formed by bonding abrasive grains and a lower layer overlaid and integrally for led with the abrasive layer. The abrasive tip is attached to the periphery of the base at the lower layer. A Young's modulus of the lower layer of the abrasive tip for finish grinding relative to a load acting on the grinding surface of the abrasive tip in an inward direction of the grinding wheel is less than that of the abrasive tip for rough grinding. Thereby, the surface of a workpiece can be both rough-ground and finish-ground with superhigh-precision surface roughness with using one grinding wheel.

Abstract: A rotary diamond dresser, with a V-groove circumferentially formed around a heavily abraded high load part of the circumference of a circular dressing body. A plurality of octahedral diamond grains are sequentially set along the V-groove of the circular dressing body such that the oriented crystal surfaces of each diamond grain are bonded to the respective surfaces of the V-groove. A plurality of small-sized diamond grains, other than the octahedral diamond grains, are secured to the surface of the circumference of the dressing body, other than the high load part. The oriented crystal surfaces of the octahedral diamond grains and the small-sized diamond grains are formed to make respective contact surfaces that contact and dress a grinding wheel. Thus, the rotary diamond dresser, which is easily produced, has excellent abrasion resistance, and is low-priced.

Abstract: First and second end surface truing sections are formed by protruding cylindrical first and second base bodies from opposite end surfaces of a disc-like base of an opposite end surface truing tool in the axial direction thereof and by providing on the external surface of the first base body and the internal surface of the second base body first and second abrasive grain layers in which numerous diamond abrasive grains are adhered with bond material. The rotational axis of the opposite end surface truing tool is inclined relative to the rotational axis of the grinding wheel within almost the same plane at a predetermined inclination angle.

Abstract: First and second end surface truing sections are formed by protruding cylindrical first and second base bodies from opposite end surfaces of a disc-like base of an opposite end surface truing tool in the axial direction thereof and by providing on the external surface of the first base body and the internal surface of the second base body first and second abrasive grain layers in which numerous diamond abrasive grains are adhered with bond material. The rotational axis of the opposite end surface truing tool is inclined relative to the rotational axis of the grinding wheel within almost the same plane at a predetermined inclination angle.