Including Tool Having Plural Alternatively Usable Cutting Edges Patents (Class 407/113)
  • Patent number: 8142113
    Abstract: A throwaway insert enabling the use of a holder for a long period and having excellent chip evacuation is provided. The throwaway insert is formed in a substantially polygonal plate shape and includes a rake face formed on an upper surface thereof, a relief face formed on a side surface thereof, a main cutting edge formed along a ridge representing an intersection of the rake face and the relief face, which is divided into a plurality of main cutting edge divisions by at least one groove formed on the relief face, and a projection formed so as to protrude from the rake face in correspondence with each of the main cutting edge divisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20120070239
    Abstract: A cutting insert has a circular top surface, a bottom surface shaped to be identical to the top surface, a cylindrical side surface for connecting the top and bottom surfaces, and cutting edges formed between the top and side surfaces and between the bottom and side surfaces. The side surface of the cutting insert has a plurality of rotation prevention surfaces substantially perpendicular to the top and bottom surfaces in the circumferential direction of the side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: TaeguTec, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Gyu Park, Jae Wook Lee, Kang Sool Jung
  • Publication number: 20120070242
    Abstract: A cutting insert has a top surface, a bottom surface, a plurality of side surfaces that connect the top and bottom surfaces. The side surfaces form an obtuse angle with the bottom surface as well as an acute angle with the top surface. The side surfaces include a first side surface and a second side surface, which form an obtuse angle with each other when seen from the above. A main cutting edge is formed at an intersection between the first side surface and the top surface. An inclined cutting edge, which is only for ramp milling, and a minor cutting edge are formed at an intersection between the second side surface and the top surface. An obtuse angle, which the second side surface forms with the bottom surface, is greater than that which the first side surface forms with the bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: TaeguTec, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Hee Choi, Chang Gyu Park, Sung Pil Choi
  • Publication number: 20120070240
    Abstract: A cutting insert of the present invention includes an upper surface; a lower surface; a side surface; a cutting edge which is located along an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface, and comprises a major cutting edge, a flat cutting edge, and a minor cutting edge located between the major cutting edge and the flat cutting edge; and a land part located along the cutting edge on the upper surface. The land part includes a minor cutting edge land portion located correspondingly to the minor cutting edge. The minor cutting edge land portion is inclined downward toward a central part of the upper surface. The present invention also provides a cutting tool including the cutting insert, and a method of manufacturing a machined product by using the cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Hirohisa Ishi, Yongbo Xu
  • Publication number: 20120070238
    Abstract: A cutting insert for mounting in a socket on an insert holder of a milling cutter. The cutting insert has opposing top and bottom surfaces and a peripheral surface extending therebetween, forming one or two cutting edges. The peripheral surface has a front arcuate surface and a rear surface. The rear surface has a protuberance that extends in a direction away from a central region of the front surface. The protuberance is located in the socket. The socket includes a first socket side abutment surface for providing primarily axial support for the cutting insert against cutting forces acting in an axial rearward direction during a milling operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuri Men
  • Patent number: 8137034
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool system that has a holder with a supply device for cooling lubricant, a cutting tool which has a tool cutter and a fixing part, and a tensioning device which has a tension screw by which a tension force acting upon the cutting tool can be produced for the purpose of fixing the cutting tool in position on the holder. A support face is realized on the holder for direct bearing contact of the fixing part of the cutting tool that is pressed-on by the tensioning screw, and a fluid space which adjoins this support face is delimited by wall parts of the bearing fixing part of the cutting tool and is fluidically connected to the supply device for cooling lubricant, and from which cooling lubricant can be passed on to the region of the main cutter via a channel which, provided in the cutting tool, comes from the adjoining wall of the fixing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Hartmetall-Werkzeugfabrik Paul Horn GmbH
    Inventor: Hassan Noureddine
  • Patent number: 8133576
    Abstract: A coated cutting insert according to the present invention includes a substrate, a base layer formed on the substrate, and an indicating layer formed on a part of the base layer. The base layer exhibits a color different from that of the indicating layer. The indicating layer is formed on the base layer, in at least a part of a surface including a cutting-edge portion and a rake face except for a flank face. When a surface relative roughness Ra of a breaker recess portion or a land portion of the rake face is set to A?m and a surface relative roughness Ra of the flank face is set to B?m, relation of B/A?1 is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Naoya Omori, Yoshio Okada, Minoru Itoh, Norihiro Takanashi, Shinya Imamura, Susumu Okuno
  • Publication number: 20120051850
    Abstract: A milling insert for center cutting milling of material is disclosed, which milling insert is arranged to be arranged in a seat that is defined by a milling cutter body and situated at a rotation axis defined by the milling cutter body, the milling cutter body being connectable to a rotatable holder. The milling insert includes a plurality of cutting edges, where at least one first cutting edge is terminated in or adjacent to a center axis defined by the milling insert, the first cutting edge including a first cutting edge portion having a first radius that is essentially equally great for each point of the first cutting edge portion. The first cutting edge includes at least one second cutting edge portion that is plane or has at least one second radius for each point of the respective second cutting edge portion, the at least one second radius being greater than the first radius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Ralf LEHTO, Rickard Sundström, Johan Bergquist
  • Publication number: 20120045289
    Abstract: A cutting insert having excellent chip discharge performance is provided. The cutting insert (1) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an upper surface (2), a lower surface (3), a side surface (4) connected to the upper surface (2) and the lower surface (3), and a cutting edge (5) which is located at an intersection of the upper surface (2) and the side surface (4), and includes a major cutting edge (51) and a flat cutting edge (52). The major cutting edge (51) includes a major cutting section (512) which has a concave shape and is inclined downward as a straight line connecting both ends thereof is away from the flat cutting edge (52) in a side view. A cutting tool (11) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the cutting insert (1) and a holder (10) configured to attach the cutting insert (1) thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventor: Hirohisa Ishi
  • Publication number: 20120039678
    Abstract: A tangential cutting insert includes two opposing end surfaces and a peripheral side surface extending between the two opposing end surfaces. The peripheral side surface includes two opposing major side surfaces connected to two opposing minor side surfaces via corner side surfaces. A peripheral edge is formed at the intersection of each end surface with the peripheral side surface. Each end surface has two raised corners with associated raised corner cutting edges and two lowered corners with associated lowered corner cutting edges. Each of the corner side surfaces includes a concave clearance depression which serves as a relief surface for an associated lowered corner cutting edge. The concave clearance depression extends from its associated lowered corner cutting edge in the direction of, but does not intersect, a raised corner associated with opposite end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: Ingersoll Cutting Tool Co.
    Inventors: Eric William Nguyen, William Bennett Johnson
  • Patent number: 8113746
    Abstract: A cutting insert of the present invention includes a side face having an upper concave portion which is located between an upper face and a lower face and extends up to the upper face, and a plurality of divided upper cutting edges which are located at the intersection of the upper face and the side face, and are divided by the upper concave portion. Each of these divided upper cutting edges includes a first end and a second end, and is inclined being closer to the lower face from the first end toward the second end. The plurality of divided upper cutting edges include a first divided upper cutting edge and a second divided upper cutting edge adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichirou Koga
  • Publication number: 20120034041
    Abstract: A cutting insert of the present invention includes an upper face, a lower face, a side face located between the upper face and the lower face, an upper cutting edge located at the intersection of the upper face and the side face, and a lower cutting edge located at the intersection of the lower face and the side face. The side face includes at least one upper concave part which extends up to the upper face along a thickness direction, and divides the upper cutting edge into a plurality of divided upper cutting edges, and at least one lower concave part which extends up to the lower face along the thickness direction, and divides the lower cutting edge into a plurality of divided lower cutting edges. The aforementioned at least one upper concave part and the aforementioned at least one lower concave part are separated from each other through a thick part being continuous along a width direction of the side face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventor: Kenichirou Koga
  • Patent number: 8105000
    Abstract: A method of producing a tool insert which comprises a central metal portion having edge regions of superabrasive material bonded thereto and presenting cutting edges or points for the tool insert is disclosed. A body (50) having major surfaces on each of opposite sides thereof, each having spaced strips (64) of superabrasive material, typically abrasive compact such as PCBN or PCD, for example, separated by a metal region or regions, such as cemented carbide, is provided. Each superabrasive strip of one major surface is arranged in register with a superabrasive strip of the opposite major surface. Alternatively, each superabrasive strip extends from one major surface to the opposite major surface. The body is severed from one major surface to the opposite major surface along at least two sets of planes intersecting at or in the respective superabrasive strips to produce the tool insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Element Six (Pty) Ltd.
    Inventors: Iain Patrick Goudemond, Nedret Can, James Alexander Reid, Mehmet Serdar Ozbayraktar, Matthew William Cook, Stig Ake Andersin, Bo Christer Olofsson, Leif Anders Sandstrom, Stefan Magnus Olof Persson
  • Patent number: 8104999
    Abstract: A cutting tool for grooving and turning operations has a removably securable cutting insert. The cutting insert is clamped in an insert holder with a longitudinally extending insert receiving slot lower surface. The insert receiving slot lower surface has two spaced apart contact sections, including a first contact section at a rear end having a V-shaped slot clamping surface with a wedge angle ?1 in clamping contact with a first V-shaped insert clamping surface of the cutting insert lower surface also with a wedge angle ?1, and a second contact section at a front end having a V-shaped slot clamping surface with a wedge angle ?2 making clamping contact with a second V-shaped insert clamping surface of the cutting insert lower surface also with a wedge angle ?2, where ?1 and ?2 are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Hecht
  • Patent number: 8104844
    Abstract: A cutting tool has a first cutting end, a second cutting end, a shoulder at an interface between the first cutting end and the second cutting end, and a shield removably mounted on one of the first cutting end and second cutting end. The cutting ends each have a cutting tip at a distal end, a body portion, a recess in the body portion and a retainer positioned in the recess. Cutting ends can be mirror images of each other, or may be non-mirror imaged, for example with different gage lengths, to accommodate different operating conditions. One of the cutting ends is mounted in a holder and the shield protects the retainer and recess features on the operating cutting end. A combination of a reversible cutting tool and a sleeve and/or block holder system, an apparatus for cutting, a sleeve per se and a shield per se are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Joseph Conwell Fader
  • Publication number: 20120014758
    Abstract: An indexable cutting insert (1) for a side milling cutter (11) includes two insert surfaces facing away from each other. Both insert surfaces include a relief-like profile (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventor: Arndt Hall
  • Patent number: 8096735
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting insert, in particular for a milling work, with a basic body which respectively has on opposite sides peripheral cutting edges, which protrude beyond the respectively adjoining face regions (15), descending at a positive rake angle, in the middle of which one or more planar supporting surfaces (16) are arranged, and with a central fastening hole (12) for receiving a tensioning screw. Arranged around the central fastening hole is at least one conical surface (19), with a cone descending inwards, i.e. towards the fastening hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Kennametal Widia Produktions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alfred Sladek, Andreas Wessel, Carsten Schwaner, Martin Hausmann
  • Publication number: 20120009029
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes two end surfaces each having a main surface usable as an attachment surface to a tool body, a peripheral side surface extending between the two end surfaces and a plurality of cutting edge portions each formed at an intersection between each end surface and the peripheral side surface. Each cutting edge portion includes a corner edge formed at a corner of a related end surface, a major cutting edge extending from one end of the corner edge and extending so as to depart from an intermediate plane defined to be perpendicular to the first axis and to include the second axis, and a minor cutting edge extending from the other end of the corner edge and extending in a direction to approach the intermediate plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Tungaloy Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuichi Saji
  • Patent number: 8087852
    Abstract: A shank has a mount reference surface formed with a mount seat having a mount seat surface inclined at a given inclined angle ?. A diamond raw material is held on the shank in an attitude such that a first bottom surface thereof is in tight contact with the mount seat surface, and a first apex is protruded forward nearly along a centerline of the shank. A portion of the first apex, protruding from the mount reference surface, is ground and removed as a given inclined angle ?. This causes a surface or its vicinity (in a value less thank approximately ±1°) to be formed as a raked face. The first bottom surface of the diamond raw material is held intact in tight contact with the mount seat surface to be integrally bonded thereto by active metal brazing, easily ensuring an increased bonding surface area to easily obtain increased bonding strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignees: OSG Corporation, Nissin Diamond Tool Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Harukazu Muraki, Youichiro Shimoda
  • Patent number: 8083442
    Abstract: A cutting tool for a lapping plate surface profile comprises a major body and a cutting body, and the cutting body comprises a first connection surface, a second connection surface and a third connection surface connecting the first connection surface and the second connection surface. The third connection surface has a secondary portion connecting a arc-shaped portion of the first connection portion and an inclined portion of the second connection portion. The cutting tool employs the arc-shaped portion and the secondary portion to cut the lapping plate so as to form a sound profile surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventor: Yaoliang Pan
  • Publication number: 20110311327
    Abstract: A cutting portion of an integral cutting tool or of a cutting insert adapted for mounting onto a cutting tool holder to form a cutting tool, which comprises a plurality n of cutting edges. The cutting portion extends along a cutting path about a central axis. The cutting path (CP) passes through a point of each of the cutting edges which is at a maximal radial space R from the central axis, such that (formula I), where D=2R and ? is the angular extension of the cutting path about the central axis (X). At any given point along the cutting portion, (formula II), where L is one of the following: i. the extension of the cutting portion in a direction perpendicular to the cutting path; and ii. the extension of the cutting edges in a direction perpendicular to the cutting path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: SIMATATE LTD.
    Inventor: Gershon Harif
  • Patent number: 8079784
    Abstract: A cutting insert for use in chipforming and material removal from a workpiece wherein coolant is supplied to the cutting insert from a coolant source. The cutting insert includes at least one discrete cutting location and at least one distinct internal channel that corresponds to the cutting location. The internal channel has an inlet to receive coolant and an outlet to exit coolant. The outlet is proximate to the cutting location, and the inlet is radial inward of the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Prichard, Linn R. Andras
  • Patent number: 8079783
    Abstract: A cutting insert for use in chipforming and material removal from a workpiece wherein coolant is supplied to the cutting insert from a coolant source. The cutting insert includes at least one discrete cutting location and at least one distinct internal channel that corresponds to the cutting location. The internal channel has an inlet to receive coolant and an outlet to exit coolant. The outlet is proximate to the cutting location, and the inlet is radial inward of the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Prichard, Linn R. Andras
  • Patent number: 8079786
    Abstract: A tool insert blank including first and second major surfaces and a plurality of edge surfaces defining an outer perimeter of the blank. A first layer defines the first major surface and a first portion of the plurality of edge surfaces proximate the first major surface. A second layer harder than the first layer is disposed substantially co-extensive with the second major surface and a second portion of the plurality of edge surfaces proximate the second major surface. At least one of the edge surfaces includes a projecting portion defining a first engagement plane and a recessed portion spaced inwardly of the engagement plane whereby the grinding wheel is engageable with the projecting portion without engaging the recessed portion. The second layer can be formed out of various materials including polycrystalline diamond and cubic boron nitride materials. A method of forming a tool insert blank is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Corbin Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Lawrence W. Corbin
  • Publication number: 20110305535
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes a first chip surface, a second surface on an opposite side of the insert from the first chip surface, and a side surface extending between the first chip surface and the second surface, at least part of one first cutting edge being defined by an intersection of the side surface with the first chip surface. The side surface includes at least one recess, the recess including an insert supporting surface for supporting the insert relative to a protruding abutment surface on a toolholder and a flat auxiliary insert supporting surface for supporting the insert relative to a non-protruding, flat abutment surface. A cutting tool is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: SECO TOOLS AB
    Inventor: Mikael Jansson
  • Publication number: 20110305534
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting tool capable of both drilling and internal/external turning. The cutting tool comprises a generally triangular-shaped cutting insert and a tool holder. On each side, the triangular-shaped cutting insert forms a major cutting edge and a minor cutting edge, which is shorter than said major cutting edge. Two adjacent major cutting edges form an angle of 60° therebetween, while adjacent major and minor cutting edges intersecting at a corner of the triangular shape of the cutting insert form an angle of 80 to 89° therebetween. The cutting insert is mounted in a pocket so that one of the major cutting edges of the cutting insert is projected in an axially forward direction of the tool holder, while the minor cutting edge on the side adjacent to the projected major cutting edge is projected in a radially outward direction of the tool holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: TaeguTec, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Sik Park, Sung Hyup Park
  • Publication number: 20110305532
    Abstract: A cutting tool holder adapted for mounting thereon a cutting insert to form a cutting tool. The cutting tool holder comprises an insert seat defined by a base and at least one side wall extending from the base to define an insert seat space adapted for receiving the cutting insert. The cutting tool holder further comprises a support element extending into the insert seat from the base. The support element is (i) integrally formed with the insert seat or (ii) at least during operation, fixedly attached to the insert seat. The support element is formed with an undercut surface extending, at least during operation, at an acute angle to the base and away from the side wall. The insert seat is formed with a bore configured for receiving a fastening member for engagement with the insert seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: NO SCREW LTD
    Inventor: Gershon Harif
  • Publication number: 20110299945
    Abstract: A cutting insert has an upper face and a lower face; a front side face portion and a back side face portion, the front and back side face portions connecting the upper face and the lower face; and a through-hole passing through the upper face and the lower face. A cutting edge is formed in the front side face portion, and the back side face portion is provided with a first inclined face and a second inclined face which are inclined forwardly at different angles, respectively, with respect to a plane normal to a rotational axis. The first inclined face is longer than the second inclined face so that the back side face portion has a non-symmetrical convex “V” shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Taegu Tec, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Hee Choi, Chang Gyu Park, Hee-Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 8066454
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an indexable cutting insert for an end mill for machining of contours in a workpiece and to a milling tool. The cutting insert is asymmetrical in respect of a line through a hole in the cutting insert. The cutting insert includes two cutting edge portions. Each cutting edge portion comprises of a substantially straight cutting edge and a curved cutting edge along respective intersecting lines between a clearance surface and a chip surface. The curved cutting edges have different lengths. The cutting insert includes recesses in a bottom side of the cutting insert. The recesses are arranged on both sides of and at different distances from the hole of the cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Bertrand Riviere, Christer Jonsson, Matti Karonen
  • Patent number: 8061937
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a cutting insert and a toolholder including at least one insert supporting surface. A first clamp is adapted to apply a clamping force in a first direction to clamp the insert to the insert supporting surface, and a second clamp is adapted to limit rotation of the insert about an axis extending substantially in the first direction. The toolholder includes a second insert supporting surface. The second clamp applies a clamping force to the insert in a second direction to clamp the insert to the second insert supporting surface, and the second insert supporting surface is disposed on an opposite side of the insert from the second clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventors: Jorma Koskinen, Lars-Martin Hessleryd
  • Patent number: 8061396
    Abstract: A tooth for a circular saw or a mower drum that can be used to cut standing trees or brush and undergrowth. The tooth has four cutting edges arranged in a first pair of opposed cutting edges that are generally straight and a second pair of opposed cutting edges that are generally concave. The tooth is mounted in a holder in a first or second cutting position that orients a cutting edge of the first or second pair to physically contact and effect a cutting method to a cuttable material. In a first cutting method, a generally straight cutting edge contacts the material, resulting in a slicing action. In a second cutting method, a generally concave cutting edge contacts the material, resulting in a gouging action. Teeth in the circular saw or brush mower alternate between first and second cutting positions, allowing both cutting methods to be applied to cuttable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventors: Charles MacLennan, Denis Rioux
  • Patent number: 8056452
    Abstract: A method of machining a crankshaft using a machine tool arrangement having a cutting insert comprising a first plurality of cutting teeth comprising a rounded cutting tooth being disposed at the intersection of a first contoured side surface and a first planar side surface; and second plurality of cutting teeth comprising a rounded, corner cutting tooth being disposed at the intersection of said second contoured side surface and a second planar side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Kennametal Widia Produktions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Klaus Serwuschok
  • Patent number: 8057132
    Abstract: An indexable milling insert, including an upperside, an underside parallel to an imaginary reference plane, and two cutting edges. Each cutting edge includes a cutting edge line and is formed between a chip surface included in the upperside and a first clearance surface extending between the upperside and the underside, the first clearance surface forming an acute, nominal first clearance angle (?) with a normal to the reference plane. Each cutting edge includes a main edge, which is at least partly convexly curved as viewed in plane elevation from above, and which extends from an initial end, which determines the maximal cutting depth of the milling insert, to a corner edge having a radius of curvature that is smaller than the radius of curvature of the main edge, the main edge rising in the direction from the initial end toward the corner edge such that the distance thereof to the underside successively increases in the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Jan Johansson, Anders Liljerehn
  • Publication number: 20110274506
    Abstract: An indexable milling insert for milling tools, including a bottom surface, an opposite chip surface, and a plurality of side surfaces extending between the bottom surface and the opposite chip surface, two of the side surfaces being primary clearance surfaces and two of the side surfaces being secondary clearance surfaces. A plurality of cutting edges are formed between the opposite chip surface and the primary and secondary clearance surfaces. Two of the cutting edges that connect to the primary clearance surfaces are primarily parallel and constitute main cutting edges. At least one lock structure is provided and includes a locking surface arranged on one of the secondary clearance surfaces so that the locking surface and the primary clearance surface form an acute angle, ?, in a section that is parallel to the bottom surface and intersects the locking surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Isak KAKAI
  • Patent number: 8047748
    Abstract: A cutting tool insert includes: a body defining a rake face, a flank face, and a cutting edge at an intersection of the rake and flank faces; and a cooling microduct within the body. The microduct has a cross-sectional area of not more than 1.0 square millimeter. The microduct is adapted to permit the flow of a coolant therethrough to transfer heat away from the cutting edge and extend the useful life of the insert. The microduct may have a portion with a cross-sectional area no larger than 0.004 square millimeter, and may communicate through at least one of the rake fact and the flank face to exhaust coolant near the cutting edge and further enhance cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Michigan Technology University
    Inventor: William J. Endres
  • Patent number: 8043031
    Abstract: A multi-function cutting tool is disclosed. The multi-function cutting tool includes a cutting insert (200) and a cutter body (300). The cutting insert has an upper surface (201), a lower surface (205), and first and second cutting edge corner parts (210) and (220), which are provided on the upper surface such that the upper surface has a symmetrical structure with respect to a diagonal direction. The cutting insert further has a major cutting edge part (230), a first minor cutting edge part (240), and a lowered cutting edge part (250). The major cutting edge part has a downwardly inclined angle ranging from 3° to 10°, and extends from the first cutting edge corner part towards the corresponding second cutting edge corner part. When seen in the front view of the cutting insert, the major cutting edge is defined by a convex curved line, which has a curvature radius of 1000 mm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Korloy Inc.
    Inventors: Wook Jung Sung, Sang Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 8043032
    Abstract: An interchangeable tool part for a reamer includes a hard metal cutting plate. The cutting surface of the cutting plate is arranged at a distance of at least 0.02 mm from the cutting edge on one side in the region of the cut part and at least partially has a peak-to-valley height which increases by at least 0.01 mm in order to assure the production of cut fragments in the main cutting area and to prevent a build up of cuts in the region of auxiliary cutting section and/or to simplify the removal of cuts. Also high targets can be reached by virtue of the fact that the cutting plates define at least one cutting cavity in the cutting surface thereof at a distance of at least 0.02 mm from the main cutting edge on the end side in the region of the entry angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Mapel Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventors: Walter Bärnthaler, Armin Schelemmer, Klaus Ruetz-Udier
  • Publication number: 20110255926
    Abstract: A cutting tool used for grooving and turning operations, where a cutting insert is removably securable in a blade-shaped insert holder. The insert holder includes an insert receiving slot having a longitudinally extending upper receiving slot surface with longitudinally separated single pairs of ridge type V-shaped lateral stopping and upper clamping surfaces, the planar surface components of which form different internal angles. The cutting insert includes an upper surface with a single pair of groove type V-shaped upper abutment surfaces longitudinally separated from two pairs of groove type V-shaped lateral abutment surfaces. Clamping contact occurs between the pairs of upper abutment and upper clamping surfaces, and lateral contact only occurs between one surface component of one of the two pairs of lateral abutment surfaces and one surface component of the pair of lateral stopping surfaces for cases of a sufficiently large side load on the cutting insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Hecht
  • Publication number: 20110250025
    Abstract: A cutting insert for milling operations, such as, face milling, slot milling, plunge milling, and ramping operations. The cutting insert exhibits a combination of favorable cutting edge strength, and unique cutting edge geometry, thus, allowing milling operations at relatively high feed rates. The cutting insert includes at least four cutting edges, wherein at least one of the cutting edges is a convex cutting edge. Certain embodiments of square cutting inserts will have four convex cutting edges which may be connected by nose corners. The convex cutting edge may comprise at least one of a circular arc, a portion of an ellipse, a portion of a parabola, a multi-segment spline curve, a straight line, or combinations of these. Wherein the convex cutting edge comprises a circular arc, the circular arc may have a radius greater than or equal to two times a radius of the largest circle that may be inscribed on the top surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: TDY Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: GILLES FESTEAU, Jean-Luc Dufour, X. Daniel Fang, David J. Wills
  • Patent number: 8033764
    Abstract: An indexable insert has one or more recesses formed in a frontside or backside surface which receives a surface of the head of a locking screw. When mounted, the insert is forced against respective support surfaces of an insert pocket. The locking screw is threaded into a counterbored tap hole to engage the insert and provide side locating forces and clamping forces to secure the indexable insert in the insert pocket. More particularly, the indexable insert has a shaped surface recess that mates to a complimentarily-shaped surface on the head of a locking screw and secures the indexable insert in multiple dimensions to a seating surface. A material removal tool and a method of mounting the indexable insert are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sandvik, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth G. Noggle
  • Publication number: 20110243672
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a tool body and at least one double-sided cutting insert mounted in an insert pocket of the tool body. The at least one double-sided cutting insert includes: an elliptical top surface; an elliptical bottom surface; first and second side surfaces connecting between both side ends of the top and bottom surfaces, respectively; a pair of corners connecting between both side ends of the first and second side surfaces, respectively; first and second cutting edges formed at a boundary portion between the top surface and the first side surface and a boundary portion between the bottom side surface and the second side surface and having a curved shape, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: TAEGUTEC, LTD.
    Inventor: Hee Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 8029213
    Abstract: An indexable insert with nicks for a rotary tool includes plurality of nicks are provided in an upper surface serving as a flank face. The nicks have their ends in the upper surface. The nicks divide a ridge line serving as a main cutting edge in a longitudinal direction. Each nick has a width gradually increasing toward the end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Inventors: Ai Tanaka, Atsuhiko Maeta
  • Publication number: 20110236147
    Abstract: A cutting insert, a tool for holding a cutting insert, with a cutting insert and method of machining a workpiece with a tool holding a cutting insert. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventor: Frank BODEWIG
  • Publication number: 20110236143
    Abstract: A cutting tool has a main body provided with a pocket part and a cutting insert seated in the pocket part. The pocket part includes at least one side wall and bottom surface. The bottom surface of the pocket part includes a pocket part base surface, a first pocket part inclined surface connected to an inner end of the base surface on an inside of the main body, and a second pocket part inclined surface connected to an outer end of the base surface on an outside of the main body. The cutting insert has an upper surface, a lower surface and side surfaces connecting the upper surface and the lower surface. The lower surface of the cutting insert includes an insert base surface, a first inclined surface inclined upwardly from a first side of the base surface towards a first side surface, and a second inclined surface inclined upwardly from a second side of the base surface towards a second side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: TAEGUTEC, LTD.
    Inventor: Su Jin Ryu
  • Publication number: 20110236142
    Abstract: A milling cutter for chip removing machining, including a basic body rotatable in a predetermined direction around a center axis and having a front end surface and an envelope surface that extends axially backward from the front end surface and is concentric with the center axis. A number of indexable milling inserts are mounted in respective peripherally spaced-apart seats having a mutually fixed pitch, each milling insert including an upper side, an under side and at least one clearance surface, the clearance surface together with the upper side delimiting at least two alternately active cutting edges that are uniform in their extension between first and second end points. The cutting edges of each milling insert are situated on different levels in relation to the under side of the milling insert to alter the effective pitch between the active cutting edges of the milling inserts by indexing of at least one of the milling inserts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Mikael LUNDBLAD
  • Patent number: 8025465
    Abstract: A cutting tool comprises: a first cutting insert having a first side surface for interconnecting a first upper surface and a first lower surface, a first cutting edge located at the intersection between the first upper surface and the first side surface, and a first groove section located in the first side surface and extending to the first upper surface so as to divide the first cutting edge; a second cutting insert having a second upper surface, a second side surface, a second cutting edge located at the intersection between the second upper surface and the second side surface, and a cutting edge reinforcing section located on the second upper surface at an end thereof which is positioned on the second cutting edge side; and a holder for mounting thereto the first cutting insert and the second cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Ishida
  • Patent number: 8021087
    Abstract: Tool holder assembly (TH) for multifunctional machining, such as drilling, boring, facing, and turning, eliminate interference between facing and turning, and secure an adequate chip groove space (10) for discharging chips therethrough without deterioration of a rigidity of the tool holder (TH), thereby securing a good quality of machining, and an exclusive adapter (TA) suitable to the foregoing tool holder (TH) assembly for multifunctional machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Taegutec Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Hee Choi, Hong Sick Park, Dae Wi Bae
  • Publication number: 20110211926
    Abstract: A cutting insert has a main body which is provided with an upper surface, a side surface, at least one groove which is formed in the side surface and which extends to the upper surface at one end, and a plurality of split cutting blades which are split by the at least one groove. The upper surface is provided with inclined portions corresponding to the split cutting blades. The distance of respective lower ends of the inclined portions from the corresponding split cutting blades increases toward the centers of the corresponding cutting blades in a plan view. A cutting tool having the cutting insert and a method for cutting a workpiece using the cutting tool are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventor: Takuya Ishida
  • Patent number: 7997832
    Abstract: A cutting insert for use in chipforming and material removal from a workpiece wherein coolant is supplied to the cutting insert from a coolant source. The cutting insert includes at least one discrete cutting location and at least one distinct internal channel that corresponds to the cutting location. The internal channel has an inlet to receive coolant and an outlet to exit coolant. The outlet is proximate to the cutting location, and the inlet is radial inward of the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Prichard, Linn R. Andras
  • Patent number: RE42644
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting insert for chip removing machining. The cutting insert has a substantially circular cutting edge formed at a transition between an upper side and an edge surface of the cutting insert. The upper side includes a chip surface including at least one chip breaker portion and the edge surface includes a clearance surface having an arrangement for indexing the cutting insert. The chip breaker portion is provided at varying distance from the associated cutting edge. The arrangement is provided in a position relative to a reference line or axis of the tool in order to orient the chip breaker portion in the chip surface to a desired position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Mats Jonsson