Patents by Inventor Rintaro SUGIMOTO

Rintaro SUGIMOTO 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: 20240091863
    Abstract: A diamond coated tool includes a base material and a diamond layer provided on the base material. The diamond layer has a boron content of 1×103 ppma or more and 1×106 ppma or less and an oxygen content of 1×102 ppma or more and 1×105 ppma or less in a first region surrounded by a surface of the diamond layer and a first imaginary plane located at a distance of 1 ?m from the surface in a thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Rintaro SUGIMOTO, Takashi HARADA, Satoru KUKINO
  • Publication number: 20230294178
    Abstract: A diamond-coated tool comprising a base material made of a cemented carbide and a diamond layer disposed on the base material, wherein when a cross section of the diamond layer along a normal line to a surface of the diamond layer is observed using a scanning electron microscope, the diamond layer has an average void area ratio of 0% or more and 0.2% or less in a region R surrounded by an interface S1 between the base material and the diamond layer and a virtual surface Q that is located at a distance of 5 ?m from interface S1 toward a surface side of the diamond layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Rintaro SUGIMOTO, Takashi HARADA
  • Publication number: 20230249262
    Abstract: The diamond-coated tool includes a base material and a diamond layer disposed on the base material, wherein the skewness Ssk defined in ISO25178 of the diamond layer is more than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Rintaro SUGIMOTO, Takashi HARADA
  • Publication number: 20220388078
    Abstract: In a diamond-coated tool provided with a blade which includes a base material and a diamond layer formed on the base material, when a length of the blade along an extending direction thereof is denoted by L, and a thickness of the diamond layer of the blade is measured at a total number of 11 points which are arranged from one end of the blade along the extending direction thereof and separated from each other at an interval of L/10, the thickness is the same at all of the 11 points, or a ratio dmin/dmax between a minimum value dmin of the thickness and a maximum value dmax of the thickness is 0.7 or more and less than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Rintaro SUGIMOTO, Takashi HARADA, Minoru YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220339719
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Rintaro SUGIMOTO, Takashi HARADA, Satoru KUKINO, Taisuke HIGASHI, Naoki WATANOBE, Mayuka SEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220297201
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiko UEDA, Mayuka SEGAWA, Rintaro SUGIMOTO, Machiko ABE, Takashi HARADA, Satoru KUKINO
  • Patent number: 11065692
    Abstract: A diamond-coated tool includes: a substrate; and a diamond layer that coats the substrate, wherein the diamond layer includes a first region that is in contact with the substrate, the first region includes a region S1 surrounded by an interface P between the substrate and the diamond layer and an imaginary plane V1 separated from the interface P by a distance of 2 ?m, and the region S1 has crystal grains grown in random directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Nozomi Tsukihara, Rintaro Sugimoto, Yutaka Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200215620
    Abstract: A diamond-coated tool includes: a substrate; and a diamond layer that coats the substrate, wherein the diamond layer includes a first region that is in contact with the substrate, the first region includes a region S1 surrounded by an interface P between the substrate and the diamond layer and an imaginary plane V1 separated from the interface P by a distance of 2 ?m, and the region S1 has crystal grains grown in random directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Rintaro SUGIMOTO, Yutaka KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: D964440
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takashi Harada, Naoki Watanobe, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi, Rintaro Sugimoto
  • Patent number: D1001169
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takashi Harada, Naoki Watanobe, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi, Rintaro Sugimoto
  • Patent number: D1001856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takashi Harada, Naoki Watanobe, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi, Rintaro Sugimoto
  • Patent number: D1002690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takashi Harada, Naoki Watanobe, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi, Rintaro Sugimoto
  • Patent number: D1002691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takashi Harada, Naoki Watanobe, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi, Rintaro Sugimoto
  • Patent number: D1024152
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Takashi Harada, Naoki Watanobe, Satoru Kukino, Taisuke Higashi, Rintaro Sugimoto