Including Tool Having Plural Alternatively Usable Cutting Edges Patents (Class 407/113)
  • Patent number: 11897038
    Abstract: A curved face grooving blade having a curved grooving portion and a clamping portion connected thereto. The grooving portion having an insert seat defining upward and downward directions. The clamping portion has a bottom wedge surface located in an inward and downward direction relative to the remainder of the clamping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Hecht, David Ben Harouche
  • Patent number: 11878352
    Abstract: A cutting insert is described. It has a cutting insert body with a central mounting section and at least one cutting edge. The cutting edge is wave-shaped and generally descending from an end section of the cutting edge towards a middle section of the cutting edge. Furthermore, a chip guiding recess extends substantially along the at least one cutting edge and is arranged between the cutting edge and the central mounting section. A chip breaker element is arranged in the chip guiding recess. The chip breaker element comprises a first portion having a first width and a second portion having a second width, wherein a transition between the first portion and the second portion is formed as a step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Igor Kaufmann, Sathish Kumar Nagarajan, Pradeep Soore
  • Patent number: 11833595
    Abstract: A cutting insert may include a base body, a first part and a second part. The base body may include a first surface, a second surface, a first lateral surface, a second lateral surface, a first recess and a second recess. The first part may be located in the first recess. The second part may be located in the second recess. The first recess may include a first bottom surface, a first wall surface and a first valley line located on an intersection of the first bottom surface and the first wall surface. The second recess may include a second bottom surface, a second wall surface and a second valley line located on an intersection of the second bottom surface and the second wall surface. The first valley line may intersect with the second valley line in a perspective view of the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11786982
    Abstract: A cutting tool including a toolholder and a round cutting insert for mounting on a pocket floor of the toolholder. The toolholder includes the toolholder pocket floor having a bore therein and a plurality of grooves in the pocket floor arranged radially about the bore, wherein adjacent grooves are radially offset by a groove offset angle x. The round cutting insert includes an upper surface having a cutting edge, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, an exterior side surface between the upper surface and the lower surface, an interior side surface defining an aperture extending from the upper surface to the lower surface, and a plurality of lugs arranged radially about the aperture, wherein adjacent lugs are radially offset by a lug offset angle y, and wherein a ratio of y:x is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventor: Jean Luc Dufour
  • Patent number: 11717898
    Abstract: A cutting insert 2 comprises a peripheral side surface 30 which is parallel to a central axis O of a first end surface 10 and a second end surface 20. The peripheral side surface 30 comprises a first side surface 31 facing a first major cutting edge 11, a second side surface 32 facing a first wiper edge 12, and a third side surface 33 facing a first inner edge 13. A flank 311 of the first major cutting edge 11 and a flank 321 of the first wiper edge 12 are inclined such that the flank 311 and 321 approaches the central axis O as it heads toward the first end surface 10. The flank 311 of the first major cutting edge 11 is located on a different plane from the first side surface 31. The flank 321 of the first wiper edge 12 is located on a different plane from the second side surface 32. Meanwhile, a flank of the first inner edge 13 is located on the same plane as the third side surface 33.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11697160
    Abstract: A tool drive unit for a turning device for machining workpieces has a tool holder driven in a displaceable manner along an infeed direction by a first linear motor and driven in a pendular/displaceable manner in a direction transverse to the infeed direction by a second linear motor. Both linear motors have a moving coil/piezo element. The turning device has a main infeed drive, which produces a primary infeed movement of a turning tool in an infeed direction, and has a main transverse drive which produces a primary transverse movement in a transverse direction transversely to the infeed direction. The turning device has a secondary transverse drive whose movements are oriented in the same direction as the main transverse drive, wherein the turning tool and the axis of rotation can be moved towards one another and away from one another by the superimposition of primary and secondary transverse movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: OptoTech Optikmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Roland Mandler
  • Patent number: 11684980
    Abstract: A thread cutting insert for cutting threads includes a plurality of cutting teeth disposed along a cutting portion, each cutting tooth is provided with an allocated chip former, and the chip formers are provided on a rake face of the thread cutting insert. The shape of at least two cutting teeth is different from each other. At least one cutting tooth along the cutting portion is provided with an allocated chip former the shape of which is adapted to the shape of that cutting tooth which, with respect to an order of engagement during cutting operation, precedes the subsequent cutting tooth along the cutting portion such that the at least one chip former has a shape adapted to the cross-section of chips encountered by it. A set of at least two thread cutting inserts, a thread cutting tool and a method for cutting threads, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: CERATIZIT Luxembourg S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Sylvain Arjona, Fabien Axer, Marc Noel
  • Patent number: 11642727
    Abstract: A turning insert includes a top surface, an opposite bottom surface, and a reference plane located parallel to and between the top and the bottom surfaces. A nose portion includes a convex nose cutting edge, and a first and a second cutting edge. The nose cutting edge connects the first and second cutting edges. The first and second cutting edges form a nose angle of 71-85° relative to each other. The nose portion has a third convex cutting edge adjacent to the first cutting edge and a fourth cutting edge adjacent to the third convex cutting edge. The fourth cutting edge forms an angle of 10-30° relative to a bisector. The distance from at least a portion of the fourth cutting edge to the reference plane increases at an increasing distance from the nose cutting edge. A second protrusion is arranged between the nose cutting edge and the first protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AB SANDVIK COROMANT
    Inventors: Adam Johansson, Ronnie Lof, Joe Truong
  • Patent number: 11633793
    Abstract: Provided is a cutting insert which is resistant to breakage and can stably be restrained. A cutting insert configured as a vertically mounted insert has a first rake face adjacent to a first major cutting edge, a second rake face adjacent to a second major cutting edge, a restraint surface located further inward than the first and second rake faces to come into contact with a tool body when a second end surface is used, and a reinforcing portion projecting from the restraint surface. The reinforcing portion has a third projecting ridge provided to extend between the first and second rake faces and halve the restraint surface, a first projecting ridge connected to one end of the third projecting ridge to extend so as to cover at least a portion of a boundary between the first rake face and the restraint surface, and a second projecting ridge connected to another end of the third projecting ridge so as to cover at least a portion of a boundary between the second rake face and the restraint surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Shiroma, Satoru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11541462
    Abstract: A cutting insert has: an upper surface; a lower surface; a side surface, having a first surface and a second surface disposed opposite each other between the upper surface and the lower surface; and a first cutting edge. The lower surface has a plurality of slots extending from a side of the first surface to a side of the second surface. In addition, when viewed from a side of the lower surface, if the angle between a ridge line on which the upper surface and the first surface intersect and an imaginary extension line of the plurality of slots is defined as ?1, and the angle between a ridge line on which the lower surface and the first surface intersect and the imaginary extension line is defined as ?2, then ?2>?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Zhanlong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11534838
    Abstract: In a cutting tool having an indexable lay-down cutting insert with a central body portion and three circumferentially spaced apart cutting portions, the cutting insert is removably secured to an elongated holding portion of an insert holder. Each cutting portion has a cutting edge with first and second cutting end points, the cutting edge formed at the intersection of an upward facing rake surface and a radially outward facing relief surface. In a top view of the cutting insert, parallel imaginary first and second vertical planes containing the first and second cutting end points, intersect the central body portion at first and second body side points, which are located first and second cutting distances from the first and second cutting end points, respectively. Each of the first and second cutting distances is greater than twenty-five percent of the first radius of an imaginary first circle circumscribing the cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Hecht
  • Patent number: 11458546
    Abstract: The throwaway insert includes a base and a cutting edge member. The cutting edge member includes a rake face, a flank face, a first connecting face, a second connecting face, and a first ridgeline serving as a cutting edge. The rake face includes a main surface and a first chamfer provided at an edge tip portion of the cutting edge member, the edge tip portion including an extreme tip portion of the cutting edge member. In a plan view from an upper surface of the base, the flank face, the first connecting face, and the second connecting face are located external to the base. The first chamfer is inclined relative to the main surface so as to increase a thickness of the cutting edge member as the first chamfer is closer to the main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Maeda
  • Patent number: 11440270
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed to provide a carbon fiber reinforced resin processed product which is almost free from the problems described above on a processed surface subjected to cutting or the like and has an end surface where generation of a burr is suppressed, has favorable surface properties, and surface nature, and particularly smoothness is excellent; and provides a carbon fiber reinforced resin processed product having an end surface which has fibers and a resin, wherein the end surface has a surface roughness (Rz) within a range from 5 ?m to 50 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Toyozumi, Syuhei Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11413689
    Abstract: Cutting tool systems including a cutting tool and cutting inserts are disclosed. The cutting inserts have indexable cutting edges and seating face features which enable uniform facets along a portion of each cutting edge of the indexable insert. The first and second seating face surfaces of the cutting insert each comprise control cavities that adjoin the cutting edge facet surfaces. Each control cavity allows its corresponding cutting edge to have a facet width that is defined by the cavity to provide uniform surfaces. The control cavities reduce and limit the amount of the first and second seating face surfaces that need to be ground. Methods of making such cutting inserts are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Sebastian Schleicher, Konrad Spitzenberger
  • Patent number: 11396047
    Abstract: A method to form a surface on a metal work piece includes providing a turning insert that has a nose angle formed between first and second cutting edges less than or equal to 85°; providing a turning tool having a tool body with an insert seat in which the turning insert is mountable; arranging the orientation of the second cutting edge such that it forms a back clearance angle of more than 90° in a feed direction; rotating the metal work piece around a rotational axis in a first direction; moving the turning insert in a direction parallel to or at an angle less than 45° relative to the rotational axis; and setting the longitudinal axis of the tool body at an angle greater than zero but less than or equal to 90° relative to the rotational axis of the metal work piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Ronnie Lof, Adam Johansson
  • Patent number: 11389883
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cutting insert, and a cutting insert according to the present disclosure comprises: an upper surface and a lower surface oriented in opposite directions; a first and a second shorter side surface connecting the upper surface and the lower surface to each other and oriented in opposite directions; a first and a second longer side surfaces connecting the upper surface and the lower surface to each other, connecting the first and the second shorter side surfaces to each other, oriented in opposite directions, and being longer than the first and the second shorter side surfaces; and a through hole extending through the upper surface and the lower surface, wherein when viewed toward the upper surface, the first longer side surface has two side portions, each side portion having an inclined shape with reference to the center portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: KORLOY INC.
    Inventors: Young Nam Choi, Sang Yong Lee, Young Heum Kim, Sun Yong Ahn
  • Patent number: 11338373
    Abstract: An insert is provided, ensuring to vary the cutout angle of the cutting edge without replacing the body, and to prevent the change in the cutout angle of the cutting edge in the cutting process. The insert includes a constraining part, a through hole, and a blade. The blade includes a cutting edge for the cutting process. An outer surface of the constraining part around the central axis includes a pair of first constraining surfaces, and a pair of second constraining surfaces. The cutting edge in the state where the pair of first constraining surfaces are fixed becomes non-parallel to the cutting edge in the state where the constraining part is rotated around the central axis from the fixed state of the pair of first constraining surfaces to place the pair of second constraining surfaces on the same surface on which the pair of first constraining surfaces have been fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Hayakawa, Daiki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11338371
    Abstract: A cutting insert has a surface that relates to cutting, the surface comprising cBN sintered material, ceramics, or cermet. The cutting insert comprises: a rake face; a flank face; a chamfer located between the rake face and the flank face; and a cutting edge formed by a ridgeline at which the flank face and the chamfer intersect. The cutting edge comprises a cutting edge portion for push cutting, a cutting edge portion for pull cutting, and a connecting cutting edge portion located between the cutting edge portion for push cutting and the cutting edge portion for pull cutting. In the chamfer located along the cutting edge, the chamfer located along the connecting cutting edge portion has a minimum width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Hironari Moroguchi, Satoru Kukino
  • Patent number: 11311944
    Abstract: The cutting insert may include a substrate including a first surface, a second surface, and a cutting edge. The substrate may include a hard phase and a binder phase, and the hard phase may include a first hard phase and a second hard phase. In X-ray diffraction analysis, a peak of the first hard phase may be observed on a higher angle side than a peak of the second hard phase. The second hard phase in the second surface may include a compressive residual stress of 150 MPa or more. A maximum height (Rz) in the second surface may be 0.2 to 1.5 ?m. A maximum height of the cutting edge may be 2 to 30 times the maximum height in the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoma Nomiyama, Junya Maegawa
  • Patent number: 11298758
    Abstract: A cutting blade having a plurality of different coatings on surfaces thereof, including an upper surface, a lower surface, and a side surface connecting the upper surface and the lower surface, wherein the upper surface intersects the side surface to form at least one cutting edge unit, the cutting edge unit includes a main cutting edge and a secondary cutting edge, the upper surface includes at least one set of cutting planes, the cutting planes include a main cutting surface and a secondary cutting surface, the main cutting surface intersects the side surface to form the main cutting edge, the secondary cutting surface intersects the side surface to form the secondary cutting edge, a main coating is provided on the main cutting surface, a secondary coating is provided on the secondary cutting surface, and the main coating and the secondary coating are independent from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ZHUZHOU CEMENTED CARBIDE CUTTING TOOLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shequan Wang, Aisheng Jiang, Lan Ni, Ping Li, Min Liu
  • Patent number: 11285550
    Abstract: A cutting insert has a cutting edge formed on part of an intersecting ridge line portion of an upper face or a lower face and a side face. The cutting edge includes a major cutting edge, a minor cutting edge, and a connecting cutting edge that connects the major cutting edge and the minor cutting edge. A minor cutting edge flank that is part of the side face and that corresponds to the minor cutting edge includes a first minor cutting edge flank that connects to the minor cutting edge and that has a clearance angle of 0°, and a second minor cutting edge flank that connects to the first minor cutting edge flank and that has a clearance angle of a negative value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoha Tabe, Ryuichi Saji
  • Patent number: 11278968
    Abstract: A parting-off insert for relatively high feed includes a rake surface including a reinforced front sub-edge extending between two convex corner sub-edges. A cutting width WC is defined between distal points of the first and second convex corner sub-edges. The cutting width WC fulfills the condition: WC?6 mm. The front sub-edge including a minimum front sub-edge thickness TF fulfilling the condition: TF>0.20 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yaakov Guy
  • Patent number: 11260461
    Abstract: A cutting insert of the present invention comprises: an upper surface and a lower surface; first and second lateral surfaces; first and second cutting edge parts; and corner cutting edges, wherein the first cutting edge part includes: a first main cutting edge for forming one end at a portion spaced farthest away from the corner cutting edge; a first sub-cutting edge connected to the corner cutting edge; and a first auxiliary cutting edge for connecting the first main cutting edge and the first sub-cutting edge so as to form a step between the same, and the first sub-cutting edge and the corner cutting edge form one straight line when viewed toward the first lateral surface, and are inclined upward in the direction opposite to the direction toward the lower surface while gradually going in the direction toward the second cutting edge part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: KORLOY INC.
    Inventors: Min Seok Oh, Ki Chan Nam, Byeong Yun Lee, Hyo San Kim, Young Heum Kim
  • Patent number: 11229961
    Abstract: A cutting insert and a shoulder milling tool are disclosed. The cutting insert includes a surface-wiping secondary cutting edge inclined in relation to a median plane of the cutting insert such that a distance to the median plane decreases in a direction toward a corner cutting edge. The corner cutting edge, as seen in a side view along the median plane and towards a main cutting edge, has a concave curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Jorgen Jansson Udd
  • Patent number: 11229957
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drilling tool (50), in particular a dowel hole drill, for the machining of workpieces, in particular workpieces made of wood, plastics, composite materials, comprising a drill shaft (56) with a front surface (60), and to a drill head (58) with at least one cutting edge (66), which is firmly connected, such as soldered, to the drill shaft (56).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: JAKOB LACH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Horst Lach
  • Patent number: 11207741
    Abstract: A cutting insert may include a first surface having a polygonal shape, a second surface, and a cutting edge located on a ridge line where the first surface intersects with the second surface. The first surface may include a first corner, a second corner, a third corner, a first side, and a second side. In a plan view of the first surface, the first side may have a straight line shape or a convex shape protruded outward relative to a first imaginary line connecting the first corner and the second corner, and the second side may have a concave shape recessed inward relative to a second imaginary line connecting the first corner and the third corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohisa Ishi, Kazuki Yamamichi, Shohei Mao
  • Patent number: 11192193
    Abstract: An object of this disclosure is to provide a cutting insert that is shaped so that a major cutting edge is not damaged easily. In the cutting insert, a major cutting edge, a corner edge, a flat cutting edge and an inner cutting edge are formed on at least an upper surface, a protruding portion protruding outward is formed in a major cutting edge side surface portion of a side surface that corresponds to the major cutting edge, and a first section is formed in which, when viewed from above, the protrusion amount becomes smaller as the protruding portion separates from the corner edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Aso
  • Patent number: 11179785
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes a main surface formed in a substantially parallelogram shape and having a pair of acute angle corner portions and a pair of obtuse angle corner portions, a seating surface that faces a side opposite to the main surface, a side surface that connects the main surface and the seating surface to each other, a corner cutting edge disposed in the acute angle corner portion, and a main cutting edge and a subsidiary cutting edge which are respectively disposed in a pair of side ridge portions of the main surface located each other across the acute angle corner portion. A mounting hole into which the fixing member is inserted penetrates the main surface and the seating surface. The main cutting edge is inclined at an inclination angle equal to or larger than 8° with reference to a plane perpendicular to an axial direction of the mounting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: MOLDINO TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventor: Syoujirou Touma
  • Patent number: 11110526
    Abstract: A cutting insert according to the present disclosure includes a first surface, a second surface, a side surface, and a cutting edge. The first surface has a rake face continuous to the cutting edge. The cutting edge has a corner cutting edge, a flat cutting edge, and a main cutting edge. The rake face has a first rake face portion, a second rake face portion, and a third rake face portion, the first rake face portion being continuous to the flat cutting edge, the second rake face portion being continuous to the main cutting edge, the third rake face portion being continuous to the corner cutting edge and being located between the first rake face portion and the second rake face portion. The rake face is provided with a level difference portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Yusuke Koike, Yasuyuki Kanada, Atsuhiko Maeta, Tomoyuki Fukuyama, Yoshinari Nagami, Yuta Morisaki
  • Patent number: 11077502
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface, and a cutting edge. The upper surface includes a first side part, a second side part, and a corner part located between the first side part and the second side part. The side surface is located between the upper surface and the lower surface. The cutting edge is located at an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface. The cutting edge includes a first cutting edge located at the corner part, and a second cutting edge adjacent to the first cutting edge and located at the first side part. A height of the first cutting edge relative to the lower surface is constant. The second cutting edge is inclined toward the lower surface as going toward the corner part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kohei Sakai
  • Patent number: 11040404
    Abstract: A cutting insert has a seating surface, an outer peripheral surface, a top surface, and an attachment hole. The cutting edge includes a curved cutting corner edge portion, a first cutting edge portion, and a second cutting edge portion. The top surface includes a first rake face contiguous to the first cutting edge portion, a second rake face contiguous to the second cutting edge portion, and a third rake face contiguous to the cutting corner edge portion and also contiguous to the first and second rake faces. The third rake face has a first region contiguous to the first rake face and a second region contiguous to the second rake face. The first rake face and the first region each have a rake angle which is a positive angle. The second rake face and the second region each have a rake angle which is a negative angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., BIG DAISHOWA SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Matsuda, Hideo Maeno, Chikara Kimura, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Takafumi Takami, Junichi Koyama, Masahiro Sasano
  • Patent number: 11014175
    Abstract: In an end view, a cutting insert 10 comprises a first connecting part 30A which is inclined such that the first connecting part 30A travels in a first direction as it heads away from a second peripheral side surface part 18 and approaches a fourth peripheral side surface part 22, and also comprises a second connecting part 30B which is connected to a center point serving as an end of the first connecting part 30A and which is inclined such that the second connecting part 30B travels in a third direction as it heads away from the second peripheral side surface part 18 and approaches the fourth peripheral side surface part 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Aso
  • Patent number: 10974330
    Abstract: A cutting insert has a substantially triangular or square basic shape with a top surface and a base surface that are connected together by lateral flanks. A cutting edge is formed at the transition between at least one flank and the top surface. The cutting edge extends between cutting corners, and the cutting edge has a portion that is convex in side view of a flank. The convex portion of the cutting edge is bounded on both sides by concavely curved portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Peter Burtscher, Josef Prast
  • Patent number: 10946458
    Abstract: A cutting insert for a drilling tool is disclosed includes an insert body having a longitudinal direction. A first axial side extends across the longitudinal direction on opposite sides of the insert body. The insert body has a first cutting edge extending along a rim portion at an intersection between a first rake face and the first axial side. The first axial side includes a first relief face and a second relief face. The first and second relief faces form obtuse angles with an imaginary centre plane of the insert body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Tomas Furucrona, Hakan P. Olsson
  • Patent number: 10906107
    Abstract: A single-sided four-way indexable cutting insert includes a positive basic shape, a rake surface, a peripheral surface including four side abutment surfaces, a base bearing surface and a screw hole connecting the rake and base bearing surfaces. The insert has an imaginary square frustum which defines a square base containing the cutting insert's base bearing surface, and further defines four isosceles trapezoid side surfaces respectively containing the cutting insert's four side abutment surfaces. A material volume VF of the cutting insert and a void volume VS of the insert fulfill the condition VS/VF?0.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Assaf Ballas
  • Patent number: 10882115
    Abstract: A cutting insert is provided, comprising a top surface, a bottom surface, a plurality of side surfaces spanning therebetween, and a cutting edge formed at an intersection of the side surface and a forwardly-disposed portion of the top the surface. It further comprises a cooling cavity projecting into the insert, a top end thereof being disposed further forwardly than an open bottom end thereof. The cooling cavity defines at least one molding axis such that a solid element having the shape of the cooling cavity and completely inserted therein may be retracted intact therefrom along a linear path parallel to the molding axis. A circumscribing portion is formed on the side surfaces encircling the cutting insert. The circumscribing portion is formed parallel to the molding axis and has a non-zero height along its entire extent. The cutting insert does not extend beyond the circumscribing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: NO SCREW LTD.
    Inventor: Gershon Harif
  • Patent number: 10850335
    Abstract: This cutting insert has: as cutting edges, arcuate cutting edges that are of an arc shape protruding toward an outer circumference side of a distal end. A chisel part is formed at an intersecting ridge line part between the flank faces of the pair of arcuate cutting edges. A round honing is formed on the cutting edge tip of the arcuate cutting edge at least in a range where a radial angle is 30° or less. A curvature radius of the round honing in a cross section perpendicular to the edge length direction of the arcuate cutting edge is 20 to 40 ?m. A chisel angle formed between the distal end part of the arcuate cutting edge and a chisel edge of the chisel part is 150° to 170° as seen in an insert front view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kiuchi, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Takao Nakamigawa
  • Patent number: 10835961
    Abstract: A tangential cutting insert for a turning tool is described, which comprises a first tangential cutting insert side and a second tangential cutting insert side, wherein one of the tangential cutting insert sides is assigned more than two cutting edges, and the cutting edges are arranged in a star shape about a tangential cutting insert center axis. The tangential cutting insert is produced completely from cubic crystalline boron nitride, polycrystalline cubic boron nitride, polycrystalline diamond, or ceramic. In addition, a cutting tool with such a tangential cutting insert is presented. A method for producing a tangential cutting insert is also explained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Raouf Ben Amor, Igor Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 10799961
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes an insert body; a pair of first surfaces; a through hole extending in a direction of a first axis; a second surface which connects the first surfaces and faces a direction of a second axis orthogonal to the first axis; a third surface which is disposed on the circumferential surface and is connected to the first surfaces and the second surface and faces a direction of a third axis; and cutting edges located at an intersection ridge line between the first surface and the second surface and at an intersection ridge line between the second surface and the third surface. The second surface has a projection part protruding in the direction of the second axis, and as viewed from the direction of the second axis, the through hole and the projection part are disposed to overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Kitajima, Masashi Kanbara, Shigeru Ishimori, Chinami Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10744576
    Abstract: A cutting insert for a milling tool, having a first side, a second side which is identical to the first side and a circumferential surface which extends between the first and the second sides, with a bore which extends along a bore axis. The cutting insert is 120° rotationally symmetrical with respect to the bore axis and includes on each of the first side and the second side three identically formed cutting regions, respectively, which are situated at a transition between the first side and the circumferential surface or at a transition between the second side and the circumferential surface, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Hartmetall-Werkzeugfabrik Paul Hom GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Stark
  • Patent number: 10689977
    Abstract: An earth-boring drilling tool comprises a cutting element. The cutting element comprises a substrate, a diamond table, and at least one sensing element formed from a doped diamond material disposed at least partially within the diamond table. A method for determining an at-bit measurement for an earth-boring drill bit comprises receiving an electrical signal generated within a doped diamond material disposed within a diamond table of a cutting element of the earth-boring drill bit, and correlating the electrical signal with at least one parameter during a drilling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignees: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC, Element Six Limited
    Inventors: Danny E. Scott, Timothy Peter Mollart, John Robert Brandon
  • Patent number: 10675695
    Abstract: A saw tooth mountable to a circular saw disc and including a body defining rear and front ends. In operation, the front end leads the rear end as the saw disc turns. A cutting tip extends from the body and defines a cutting tip base adjacent to the body and an opposed cutting edge. The cutting tip base is rearwardly provided relative to the cutting edge. An elongated gullet extends along the cutting tip substantially adjacent to the cutting tip base and defines opposed gullet first and second ends and a gullet longitudinal axis therebetween. A gullet nadir line extends longitudinally between the gullet first and second ends and joins locations along the gullet that are closest to the rear end at all longitudinal positions along the gullet. The gullet nadir line is closer to the rear end at the gullet first end than at the gullet second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventor: Stephen MacLennan
  • Patent number: 10632547
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes a main body including a first face, a second face, and a third face. The second face includes a rake face. Among the outer-peripheral sides of the second face, the boundary portion with the first face is a main cutting edge. When viewed from the side where the first face is disposed, the main cutting edge includes a first straight portion, a second straight portion, and a curved portion. The first straight portion is located adjacent to a reference side. The second straight portion is arranged at a distance from the first straight portion. The curved portion connects the first straight portion and the second straight portion. A first intersection angle of the first straight portion with respect to the reference side is different from a second intersection angle of the second straight portion with respect to the reference side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventor: Yuta Morisaki
  • Patent number: 10625348
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate, the coating layer including at least one ?-type aluminum oxide layer, wherein, in the ?-type aluminum oxide layer, a texture coefficient TC (2,1,10) of a (2,1,10) plane is 1.4 or more. TC ? ( 2 , 1 , 10 ) = I ? ( 2 , 1 , 10 ) I 0 ? ( 2 , 1 , 10 ) ? { 1 8 ? ? I ? ( h , k , l ) I 0 ? ( h , k , l ) } - 1 ( 1 ) (In formula (1), I (h,k,l) denotes a peak intensity for an (h,k,l) plane in X-ray diffraction of the ?-type aluminum oxide layer, I0 (h,k,l) denotes a standard diffraction intensity for an (h,k,l) plane which is indicated on a JCPDS Card No. 10-0173 for ?-type aluminum oxide, and (h,k,l) refers to eight crystal planes of (0,1,2), (1,0,4), (1,1,0), (1,1,3), (0,2,4), (1,1,6), (2,1,4) and (2,1,10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Satoh
  • Patent number: 10625352
    Abstract: A cutting insert mounted on a rotating tool including a body that rotates about a predetermined rotational axis. The cutting insert includes an upper surface, a lower surface and a peripheral side surface. The cutting insert further includes an inner cutting edge and a corner cutting edge. A top part, which has the maximum distance from the lower surface, is located on the corner cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Oikawa, Yuma Kondou
  • Patent number: 10612134
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate, the coating layer including at least one ?-type aluminum oxide layer, wherein, in the ?-type aluminum oxide layer, a texture coefficient TC (1,2,11) of a (1,2,11) plane is 1.4 or more. TC ? ( 1 , 2 , 11 ) = I ? ( 1 , 2 , 11 ) I 0 ? ( 1 , 2 , 11 ) ? { 1 8 ? ? I ? ( h , k , l ) I 0 ? ( h , k , l ) } - 1 ( 1 ) (In formula (1), I (h,k,l) denotes a peak intensity for an (h,k,l) plane in X-ray diffraction of the ?-type aluminum oxide layer, I0 (h,k,l) denotes a standard diffraction intensity for an (h,k,l) plane which is indicated on a JCPDS Card No. 10-0173 for ?-type aluminum oxide, and (h,k,l) refers to eight crystal planes of (0,1,2), (1,0,4), (1,1,0), (1,1,3), (0,2,4), (1,1,6), (2,1,4) and (1,2,11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Satoh
  • Patent number: 10612133
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating layer formed on a surface of the substrate, the coating layer including at least one ?-type aluminum oxide layer, wherein, in the ?-type aluminum oxide layer, a texture coefficient TC (1,0,16) of a (1,0,16) plane is 1.4 or more. TC ? ( 1 , 0 , 16 ) = I ? ( 1 , 0 , 16 ) I 0 ? ( 1 , 0 , 16 ) ? { 1 8 ? ? I ? ( h , k , l ) I 0 ? ( h , k , l ) } - 1 ( 1 ) (In formula (1), I (h,k,l) denotes a peak intensity for an (h,k,l) plane in X-ray diffraction of the ?-type aluminum oxide layer, I0 (h,k,l) denotes a standard diffraction intensity for an (h,k,l) plane which is indicated on a JCPDS Card No. 10-0173 for ?-type aluminum oxide, and (h,k,l) refers to eight crystal planes of (0,1,2), (1,0,4), (1,1,0), (1,1,3), (0,2,4), (1,1,6), (2,1,4) and (1,0,16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Satoh
  • Patent number: 10598579
    Abstract: A cutting insert for cutting, milling or drilling of metal includes a sensor for detecting a predetermined wear of the cutting insert caused by operation thereof on a metal work piece, wherein the sensor includes at least two contact regions through which the sensor is connectable to external measuring circuitry. The sensor has at least two leads, which are connected to a respective of the at least two contact regions, wherein each lead presents a respective free end positioned such that, upon the predetermined wear caused by the operation of the cutting insert on a metal work piece, the free ends will be connected to each other by the metal work piece or by a chip resulting from the operation of the cutting insert on the metal work piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Vahid Kalhori, Carl Bjormander, Conny Lundgren
  • Patent number: 10583502
    Abstract: Provided is a cutting insert capable of suppressing edge fracture when a work having high hardness is machined. A cutting insert includes two end surfaces having a plurality of corner parts and opposed to each other, a peripheral side surface extending between the two end surfaces, and a cutting edge formed at an intersecting edge between at least one of the two end surfaces and the peripheral side surface. The cutting edge has at least a first corner edge, a second corner edge, a major cutting edge, and an end cutting edge. The end cutting edge has a circular-arc shape, which projects outward, as viewed from the side of the end surface. The end cutting edge has a width which is from 15% to 50% of the width of the cutting insert. The end cutting edge has an arc radius which is from ? to 1/1 of the width of the cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Shiroma, Yosuke Yamada
  • Patent number: 10576547
    Abstract: A cutting insert according to an aspect includes a top surface and a side surface. At least a part of a ridge line where the top surface and the side surface intersects is a cutting edge. The cutting edge includes a first portion located at a corner portion, a second portion adjacent to the first portion, a third portion close to the second portion, a fourth portion close to the third portion, and a fifth portion adjacent to the fourth portion. When viewed from directly above, a curvature radius of the second portion is less than a curvature radius of the first portion, a curvature radius of the third portion is greater than the curvature radius of the first portion, and a curvature radius of the fourth portion is less than the curvature radius of the third portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihito Ikeda