Abstract: There is provided a cutting insert having a low possibility that chips roughen a machined surface of a workpiece in back turning. The cutting insert includes a rake surface, a peripheral side surface, a front cutting edge which is provided on a ridge of the rake surface and the peripheral side surface, and a main cutting edge which is provided on the ridge so as to be continuous with the front cutting edge and has an extension direction which forms an obtuse angle with an extension direction of the front cutting edge, the main cutting edge is curved into a U shape over an entire length of an effective edge range which functions as a cutting blade, and the deepest point of the U shape is positioned in a range closer to a side of a corner than a position which divides a straight line connecting both ends of the main cutting edge at a ratio of 2:1 from the side of the corner positioned adjacent to the front cutting edge.

Abstract: It is intended to allow a wide range including a low region (fine finishing) to a middle region (medium cutting) to be covered with a single insert. A cutting insert includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a peripheral side surface, a cutting edge including a main cutting edge and a corner cutting edge, a corner portion, a projecting portion formed to extend from the corner portion toward a central axis and including a first projection and a second projection, a rake portion, and an inclined portion provided at the cutting edge. The inclined portion has a first inclined portion beginning at an intermediate point in the corner cutting edge, while the rake portion has a shape in which an angular degree of a rake angle gradually increases with distance from the corner portion.

Abstract: Chip discharge during high-feed machining and low-feed machining particularly in a high-depth-of-cut state or the like is improved so as to allow so-called freedom of feed during cutting to be improved. A cutting edge body of a cutting insert includes a front cutting edge formed on one end side in a longitudinal direction, the front cutting edge being a cutting edge formed on an intersecting edge between a peripheral side surface and an upper surface of the cutting edge body having a prismatic shape, a side cutting edge formed on one end side in a lateral direction, a recessed part provided in the upper surface of the cutting edge body to be subsequent to the side cutting edge in the lateral direction, and a wall part having a wavy wall surface formed in a portion of the recessed part and a discrete wall surface formed at a position between the wavy wall surface and the side cutting edge and including a plurality of surfaces which are discrete along the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A cutting insert for drilling includes an upper surface, a lower surface formed on an opposite side of the upper surface, a side surface connecting the upper surface and the lower surface; a cutting edge formed at an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface, and a ridge portion formed to protrude upward from the upper surface to facilitate chip control. The ridge portion includes a ridge body spaced apart from the cutting edge and disposed at a central portion of the cutting insert for drilling; and a ridge extension portion extending from a vicinity of a corner of the ridge body in a direction parallel to the cutting edge.

Abstract: Provided is a cutting insert having two cutting parts that is capable of entering a workpiece more deeply and easily supports machining of a groove or hole having a small diameter in a workpiece. A cutting insert includes: a body having at least an inner surface to be fixed to a tool body of a cutting tool and an outer surface opposed to the inner surface; and two cutting parts protruding in opposite directions in a longitudinal direction of the body. The cutting part includes: a cutting upper surface; a cutting front surface; and a first cutting side surface and a second cutting side surface. A front cutting edge is located on an edge between the cutting upper surface and the cutting front surface.

Abstract: A turning insert includes a head portion connected to a stem portion. A CBN cutting edge includes a surface generating cutting edge and two major cutting edge portions, such that each major cutting edge portion forms an angle of 5-20° in relation to a tangent line of the cutting edge at a forward point of the cutting edge.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes an upper surface and a cutting edge. The upper surface includes a first surface and a second surface which is located further inward than the first surface. The cutting edge includes a first cutting edge and a second cutting edge. The first surface includes a first region along the first cutting edge, a second region adjacent to the first region, and a third region which is adjacent to the second region and along the second cutting edge. The second surface includes a fourth region, a fifth region and a sixth region. A width of the second region is smaller than each of a width of the first region and a width of the third region. An inclination angle of the fifth region is smaller than each of an inclination angle of the fourth region and an inclination angle of the sixth region.

Abstract: A cutting insert according includes a first surface and a cutting edge. The first surface includes a first inclined surface and a projection. The first inclined surface includes a first region located close to a first corner portion, a second region located close to a second corner portion, and a third region located between the first region and the second region. The projection includes a first projection located close to the first corner portion and a second projection located close to the second corner portion. A first top portion of the first projection is located closer to the first corner portion than a first boundary portion between the first region and the third region, and a second top portion of the second projection is located closer to the second corner portion than a second boundary portion between the second region and the third region.

Abstract: An indexable cutting insert has a central mounting portion and two cutting portions. The central mounting portion has opposing upper and lower surfaces. The lower surface has two abutment elements associated therewith, each abutment element having two diverging abutment surfaces forming two abutment angles. The two cutting portions extend away from the central mounting portion, have distal cutting edges, and are entirely located in diagonally opposite imaginary quadrants of four quadrants defined by two mutually perpendicular quadrant planes. Two abutment bisector planes bisecting the two abutment angles and one of the quadrant planes are parallel or coincident. In a top view, the two cutting portions extend away from the central mounting portion in opposite directions. Two cutting bisector lines parallel to the two directions and bisecting the two cutting edges are mutually offset. A cutting tool has an insert holder and the cutting insert removably retained therein.

Abstract: The upper surface includes a first breaker projection face extending along the first side surface, a second breaker projection face extending along the second side surface, and a rake face located between the first breaker projection face and the second breaker projection face in top view. In a direction from the rear surface to the front surface, a first front end of the first breaker projection face is located ahead of a second front end of the second breaker projection face. A cutting edge has a first cutting edge portion and a second cutting edge portion. In a direction perpendicular to the reference surface, the second breaker projection face is lower than the first breaker projection face, and a boundary between the first cutting edge portion and the second cutting edge portion is lower than the second breaker projection face.

Abstract: A parting/grooving insert and a method of grinding a parting/grooving insert including rotating a plane grinding surface having a normal vector parallel to the axis of rotation and a tangential direction of rotation; providing a parting/grooving insert including a rake surface, a main clearance surface, and a main cutting edge formed between the rake and main clearance surfaces; orienting/positioning the insert relative to the grinding surface, such that the main clearance surface is parallel to the grinding surface, the normal vector of the main cutting edge being in the plane of the main clearance surface and with a vector component in the direction of rotation forming an angle to the tangential direction of rotation at the insert of at least 20 degrees from parallel orientation; and grinding the main clearance surface to provide grinding marks having an angle to the normal vector of the main cutting edge corresponding to the angle to the tangential direction of rotation.

Abstract: A controller controls a machine tool, which performs thread cutting for a workpiece, according to a machining program. The controller analyzes operating conditions of a cutting-up/cutting-in motion commanded in the machining program and inserts a cutting-up/cutting-in motion created based on the analyzed operating conditions into the thread cutting. In the insertion of the cutting-up/cutting-in motion into the thread cutting, a cycle including a cutting-in operation, a cutting-up operation for separating chips by raising the cutting tool for cutting in the radial direction of the workpiece, and an operation to cause the cutting tool to approach a start position of an immediately preceding cutting-up operation so as not to interfere with the workpiece is repeatedly performed.

Abstract: In one aspect, rotary cutting tools are described comprising clearances with projections adjacent the cutting edge and extending the width and length of the clearance surface of each tooth. This design can assist in reducing vibration or chatter during cutting operations.

Abstract: A cutting edge tip of a cubic boron nitride sintered body has improved joint strength to a substrate of a cemented carbide. A cutting edge tip of a cubic boron nitride sintered body has improved crater wear resistance. A tool 10 of the present invention includes a substrate 12 of a cemented carbide and a cutting edge tip 14 of a cubic boron nitride sintered body joined to the substrate 12. The cutting edge tip 14 has a thickness covering an upper surface 12a to a lower surface 12b of the substrate 12. The cubic boron nitride sintered body contains 50 volume % or more and 95 volume % or less of cubic boron nitride and 5 volume % or more and 50 volume % or less of a binder phase. The cubic boron nitride has an average grain size of 1.0 ?m or more and 6.0 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a cutting tool in which one end side of a protruding cutting edge is sharpened while wear resistance is improved. The cutting tool of the present invention includes an end surface, a peripheral side surface that intersects the end surface, and a cutting edge in an intersecting ridgeline portion between the end surface and the peripheral side surface. When first and second points (A and B) are set on the cutting edge, the first point (A) protrudes further toward an outer side of the cutting tool than the second point (B). The cutting tool has a coating film on its surface. The cutting edge has a portion in which the thickness of the coating film gradually increases toward the second point (B) from the first point (A).

Abstract: Square end mill includes long end cutting edge disposed from end portion on outer peripheral side in radial direction to center in the radial direction when a cutting edge portion is viewed from end face side, and short end cutting edges disposed from other end portions on outer peripheral side in radial direction to middles on center side in radial direction, first gashes disposed on regions from lines connecting end portions on center side in radial direction of the short end cutting edges to center in radial direction to the long end cutting edge on rear side in the rotation direction, second and third gashes disposed on rear and front sides in rotation direction of the first gashes, and all gashes formed in curved surface shapes depressed to a shank side on opposite side in axial direction of the cutting edge portion.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes a leading cutting edge having a rake angle in the range of 20° to 35° in a central region in a width direction; and a rake face having a breaker groove formed in the central region in the width direction and land portions formed in both end regions in the width direction. The land portions have a rake angle smaller than the rake angle in the central region in the width direction. The breaker groove includes opposing side faces separated from each other by a distance that decreases with increasing distance from the leading cutting edge and four shoulder portions of the same height that are formed on the opposing side faces at positions above the land portions, two of the shoulder portions being closer to the leading cutting edge and to outer sides in the width direction than the other two shoulder portions are.

Abstract: In a roughing end mill, an end mill main body is provided with: a peripheral cutting edge; an end cutting edge; and a corner cutting edge formed between the peripheral cutting edge and the end cutting edge. A roughing part having a waveform pattern of recesses and protrusions is formed in the peripheral cutting edge, and a phase of the recesses and protrusions of the roughing part of one chip discharge flute is shifted with respect to that of the other chip discharge flute adjacent to the one chip discharge flute. A foremost protrusion of the roughing part of one peripheral cutting edge is located closer to a distal end of the end mill main body than those of the other peripheral cutting edges, a peak of the foremost protrusion of the one peripheral cutting edge is aligned with another peak of the corner cutting edge adjacent to the one peripheral cutting edge.

Abstract: An internal milling cutter for producing a recess terminating in a radius in a workpiece, in particular for milling a crankshaft, comprises a tool holder having interchangeable cutting inserts detachably attached thereto. For the production of the radius, a plurality of first interchangeable cutting inserts are provided, which are arranged one after another in the direction of cut and have cutting edges which produce complementary portions of the radius, wherein the first interchangeable cutting inserts for producing the radius are identically configured.

Abstract: A cutting insert having a main lip, a rake face and at least one coolant duct, which is formed on the top side of the cutting insert, is disclosed. The at least one coolant duct runs at least partially in the rake face towards the main lip and the width increases towards the main lip.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a portion made of a high hardness material. The portion includes a rake face, a flank face, and a cutting edge. The rake face is divided into a region A along the cutting edge and a region B excluding the region A of the rake face, a surface roughness of the region A is smaller than a surface roughness of the region B, and the region B is deepened with respect to a position of the region A.

Abstract: A cutting insert has a polygonal columnar shape and includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface located between the upper surface and the lower surface, and a cutting edge formed at an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface. The upper surface includes a convex-shaped main part including a flat upper end surface, a first projection projecting from the main part to a corner part of the upper surface, a second projection projecting from the first projection toward the corner part, and a pair of third projections respectively projecting from the first projection toward a periphery of the upper surface that interpose at least a part of the second projection between the pair of third projections. A surface of the first projection is an inclined surface curved in a concave shape, and a surface of the second projection is a planar inclined surface.

Abstract: A cutting insert having a plurality of corner cutting edges has an upper face, a lower face, two longitudinal side faces and two transversal side faces connecting the upper face and the lower face. A through hole passes through central parts of the upper face and the lower face. The longitudinal side faces are opposite to each other and normal to both upper and lower faces, as are the transversal side faces. The upper face and the lower face are each provided with two chip discharge grooves, each chip discharge groove extending along a corresponding one of the transversal side faces, the two chip discharge grooves being inclined oppositely in the transverse direction so that the upper face and the lower face are each provided with two corner cutting edges at diagonally opposite corners. The longitudinal length of the insert is longer than the transversal length of the insert. The cutting insert can be mounted stably to a small-diametered cutter with a sufficient mounting surface.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes a polygonal body having an upper chip surface, a bottom surface and peripheral side surfaces extending between the upper chip surface and the bottom surface, the peripheral side surfaces intersecting the upper chip surface to form cutting edges therewith. A plurality of chip dividers are spaced apart about a perimeter of the upper chip surface to divide the chips produced by the cutting edges, each chip divider including a leading chip dividing portion adjacent to the cutting edge and extending generally upwardly from the cutting edge, the leading chip dividing portion having an elongated, rounded face. Adjacent chip dividers define a pocket such that the pockets are configured for promoting curling of chips produced by the cutting edges.

Abstract: A tool includes, at least on its edge, a sintered cBN compact which includes cBN particles and a bonding phase, a plurality of flutes is formed on a rake face, each of the flutes having a starting end on the edge ridgeline and causing the edge ridgeline to be wavy, and the terminal end of the flute is disposed inwardly of the edge ridgeline. It is preferable that the flute width of the flute decreases with distance from the edge ridgeline, the flute depth of the flute decreases with distance from the edge ridgeline, and the rake face has a positive rake angle.

Abstract: A milling tool for the milling of a slot in a workpiece includes a plurality of cutting inserts, which comprise an under side; an opposite upper side, which forms a chip surface and extends parallel to an extension plane; and an edge side between the upper side and the underside. A cutting edge, which extends between the edge side and the chip surface, includes a primary main cutting edge; a front cutting edge, which extends along an edge line; and a primary corner cutting edge, which extends between and connects the primary main cutting edge and the front cutting edge. The primary corner cutting edge has a convex shape and extends, with respect to a rear portion of the cutting insert, forward from the front cutting edge to a position on the other side of an imaginary line, which forms an extension of the edge line and extends in a tangential direction to a point on the primary corner cutting edge.

Abstract: This roughing insert is provided with an insert body, and a waveform cutting edge which is formed on an intersecting ridge line portion between a rake face and a flank face of the insert body, and which undulates along this intersecting ridge line portion. The waveform cutting edges are formed on the insert body respectively at positions which are rotationally symmetrical at predetermined angular intervals around a reference line of the insert bodies. These waveform cutting edges which are positioned rotationally symmetrically to each other are formed such that, when the insert bodies are rotated by the predetermined angle around the reference line, one or more portions of the waveform cutting edges do not match each other and are mutually asymmetrical.

Abstract: A cutting insert having a cutting edge is located along an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface, having a major cutting edge, a second cutting edge, and a minor cutting edge located between the major cutting edge and the flat cutting edge. The upper surface includes a flat part located away from the cutting edge, and a rake face inclined downward from the cutting edge to the flat part. In at least a part between the major cutting edge and the flat part, a groove part lies along the major cutting edge. The groove part includes the rake face and a rising face inclined upward from the rake face to the flat part. A connection part where the rake face and the flat part exist continuously extends from the minor cutting edge to a boundary of the minor cutting edge and the major cutting edge.

Abstract: A cutting insert has an approximately polygonal plate shape with a cutting edge formed on a intersection portion between a rake face and a flank. A chip breaker is formed on the rake face, and a chip-breaker concave portion is defined by an inclined surface which is curved in a concave manner and which is smoothly connected to the bottom surface portion while being gradually inclined toward the bottom surface portion, from a peripheral edge portion on a nose portion side to a bottom surface portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting insert, in particular for machining crankshafts, having two base surfaces (10, 11) which are arranged parallel to one another and through which a respective hole (12) passes for receiving a clamping screw and which merge at their shorter edges into rounded end faces which are each defined laterally by cutting edges. According to the invention, at least one pair of the cutting edges is of stepped design and has two convex sections (13, 14) and a concave section (15) lying in between, wherein the outer convex section (13) extends over an angle of 180°.

Abstract: A cutting insert having excellent chip discharge performance is provided. In the cutting insert of the present invention, a bottom surface of a concave groove 21 includes a first bottom surface 211 continuous with a cutting edge part 5, and a second bottom surface 212 which is located on a side further remote from the cutting edge part 5 than the first bottom surface 211, and is located at a lower position than a virtual extension line L1 of an end portion of the first bottom surface 211 on a side remote from the cutting edge part 5. Further, a pair of inclined surfaces 23 are located on a side further remote from the cutting edge part 5 than the end portion of the first bottom surface 211 on the side remote from the cutting edge part 5 in a top view. Therefore, the diameter of generated chips decreases by the fact that the chips are curled while sinking in space formed at a lower position than the virtual extension line L1 of the first bottom surface 211.

Abstract: A carbide cutting tip including a rear surface and a bottom surface for mounting the tip to a cutting tool tooth, a top surface having a pair of peaks separated by a trough, the top surface including a frontward facet and a rearward facet sloped downwardly and rearwardly at a non-zero angle ? with respect to the frontward facet, and a front surface having a substantially flat lower portion and a concave upper portion having a shape defined by a segment of an ellipse, the lower portion being disposed substantially perpendicularly to the frontward facet of the top surface, the lower portion and the upper portion joining at a break point located at the apex of the major axis of the ellipse, the major axis of the ellipse being canted frontwardly from the break point at a non-zero angle ? with respect to the lower portion of the front surface.

Abstract: A cutting insert that includes a cutting edge; a rake face region formed continuously with the cutting edge; and a clamp face region located more inward and higher than the rake face region is provided. The cutting insert includes a first rake face formed continuously with the cutting edge; a second rake face formed in an inclined surface shape from the first rake face toward the clamp face region; a projection formed so that at least a part of the projection is located on the first rake face, and includes a top portion at a position corresponding to a middle region of the cutting edge; and a concave part or a convex part formed so that at least a part is located on the second rake face, and located more inward than the projection. Chip accumulation into the insert and frictional resistance generated in the rake face region is decreased.

Abstract: In a cutting insert, a cutting edge is formed on a peripheral border of a rake face; a protruding section is formed on the rake face; a pair of convex sections is formed so as to extend toward the cutting edge; the convex sections face toward a corner portion; the convex sections include first wall surfaces and second wall surfaces; the first wall surfaces and the second wall surfaces are inclined surfaces that are inclined toward the rake face as those are farther from ridgelines intersecting with each other; and the intersection ridgelines intersect with a wall surface of the protruding section, at a position lower than a top portion of the protruding section in the corner portion side.

Abstract: A holder of the present invention has a first insert pocket and a second insert pocket at the tip end thereof. The first insert pocket is located closer to the central axis thereof than the second insert pocket. The axial rake of the first insert pocket is larger than the axial rake of the second insert pocket.

Abstract: An indexable insert having two main faces (1) that face away from one another and that each have a full-perimeter cutting edge (3) at the face periphery, and having a chip step (6) adjoining the cutting edge (3), having a continuously curved surface.

Abstract: A cutting insert has a cutting edge formed at an intersection of a rake surface and a relief surface, with a chip-control arrangement located at the rake surface. The chip-control arrangement includes a plurality of recesses that extend downwardly into the rake surface and a plurality of projections that extend upwardly from the rake surface. The plurality of recesses follow a pattern of increasing depth in a rearward direction from the forward portion of the cutting edge. The plurality of projections follow a pattern of increasing height in a rearward direction from the forward portion of the cutting edge.

Abstract: A cutting insert has a chip-control arrangement. The cutting insert includes opposing top and bottom ends and first and second side surfaces that extend therebetween and meet at a cutting corner having a bisector. The chip-control arrangement also includes an elongated surface extending in an upward direction from the top end face, and also extending longitudinally to opposing sides of the bisector. The elongated surface includes a first and second extremity. The first extremity is closer to the first side surface than to the bisector, and the second extremity is closer to the second side surface than to the bisector.

Abstract: A cutting insert has a cutting edge formed at the intersection of a side surface an end surface. Recesses formed in the side surface interrupt the cutting edge at recessed cutting edge portions. Each recessed cutting edge portion has, in an end view of the cutting insert, a curved central section located between two curved side sections. The central section has a first radius of curvature and each side section has a second radius of curvature, the first radius of curvature being larger than the second radius of curvature.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes a first mounting surface, a second mounting surface located on an opposite side of the insert from the first mounting surface, and a first side surface disposed between the first mounting surface and the second mounting surface. The insert further includes a first groove extending substantially diagonally across the first side surface and dividing the first side surface into discrete, separated, triangular first and second first side support surfaces. The first and second first side support surfaces are each bounded along first and second edges thereof by rake surfaces forming non-zero angles with the first and second side support surfaces and along third edges thereof by the groove.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes an insert body including an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface connected to each of the upper surface and the lower surface, and a cutting edge located at an intersection of the upper and side surfaces. The insert body is divided into cutting and fixing sections. A region of the upper surface located at the cutting section includes a rake surface which is located further inward than the cutting edge and is inclined as going inward at an inclination angle ?1 with respect to a reference plane perpendicular to a central axis, and a plurality of protruded parts arranged along the cutting edge. Each of the plurality of protruded parts includes a first surface which is inclined as going inward at an inclination angle with respect to the reference plane and has a larger width as going inward in a top view.

Abstract: A cutting insert according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an upper surface, a side surface, and a first cutting edge located at an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface. The upper surface includes a pair of raised parts located opposite to each other with a perpendicular bisector of the first cutting edge interposed therebetween. A top of each of the pair of raised parts includes at least two protrusions oriented toward a direction along the perpendicular bisector in a top view. Each of the at least two protrusions includes a first protrusion located on a side closest to the perpendicular bisector, and a second protrusion which is located on a side further away from the perpendicular bisector than the first protrusion, and is located at a higher position than the first protrusion. A cutting tool including the cutting insert, and a method of manufacturing a machined product by using the cutting tool are also provided.

Abstract: A cutting insert having low cutting resistance and 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, and a cutting edge 5 disposed between an intersection of the upper surface 2 and the side surface 4. The upper surface 2 includes a rake surface continuous with the cutting edge 5. The rake surface includes a first rake surface 21 which is located correspondingly to a middle part of the cutting edge 5, and is parallel to a horizontal plane L including the intersection or is inclined downward as the first rake surface separates from the cutting edge 5, and a pair of second rake surfaces which are located on both sides of the first rake surface 21 and are inclined upward as the second rake surfaces separate from the cutting edge 5, and which include concave parts 2231b and 221c.

Abstract: A sintered cubic boron nitride tool can perform stable machining without causing any defect for a long lifetime even under a high-load cutting condition and a high-efficiency cutting condition.

Abstract: The present invention includes a first ridge line positioned at an intersection between a first surface and an upper side section of a side surface along the first surface; and a second ridge line positioned at an intersection between a second surface and a lower side section along the second surface of the side surface. A cutting section is formed at the first ridge line with the first surface forming a rake face. A second cutting section is formed at the second ridge line with the lower side section along the second surface of the side surface forming a rake face. Selective use can be made of the first cutting section and the second cutting section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cutting head of a reamer. At least two wiping pads extend rearwardly from a cutting head forward end. At least one cutting section comprises a cutting edge that extends from the cutting head forward end to the peripheral surface. The cutting edge is formed at the intersection of a rake surface and a relief surface. The rake surface is generally tangentially directed and faces a direction of rotation. A deflecting surface is formed adjacent the rake surface and generally transverse thereto. The deflecting surface extends from a rake surface first end in a direction away from the cutting edge. The deflecting surface makes an acute axial angle with respect to the axis of rotation. A rear end of the deflecting surface joins the peripheral surface adjacent the cutting section and distal the rear end of the cutting head.

Abstract: An insert according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface which is connected to the upper surface and the lower surface, and includes a first side surface, and a cutting edge which is located an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface, and comprises a first cutting edge corresponding to the first side surface. The first cutting edge has a projected shape projected toward the upper surface in a side view, and has a recessed shape recessed inward in a top view. A cutting tool according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the insert and a holder configured to attach the insert thereto so that at least a part of the first cutting edge has a negative axial rake angle. A method of manufacturing a machined product according to an embodiment of the present invention is a method of manufacturing the machined product by using the cutting tool.

Abstract: A cutting insert having excellent chip discharge performance is provided. In the cutting insert of the present invention, a bottom surface of a concave groove 21 includes a first bottom surface 211 continuous with a cutting edge part 5, and a second bottom surface 212 which is located on a side further remote from the cutting edge part 5 than the first bottom surface 211, and is located at a lower position than a virtual extension line L1 of an end portion of the first bottom surface 211 on a side remote from the cutting edge part 5. Further, a pair of inclined surfaces 23 are located on a side further remote from the cutting edge part 5 than the end portion of the first bottom surface 211 on the side remote from the cutting edge part 5 in a top view. Therefore, the diameter of generated chips decreases by the fact that the chips are curled while sinking in space formed at a lower position than the virtual extension line L1 of the first bottom surface 211.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes a rake face region located on an upper surface, a flank located on a front surface, and a cutting edge located at an intersection between the rake face region and the flank. At least three types of projections having different distances from the cutting edge are on the rake face region. When these three types of projections are arranged in the order of increasing distance from the cutting edge, namely, a first projection, a second projection and a third projection, the top of the second projection is lower than an imaginary straight line connecting the top of the first projection and the top of the third projection in the side view.

Abstract: A cutting head of a reamer has a cutting head forward end, a cutting head rear end distal the cutting head forward end, and a peripheral surface therebetween. The peripheral surface has at least two wiping pads that extend rearwardly from the cutting head forward end. At least one cutting section extends between two consecutive wiping pads and has a chip evacuation flute that extends rearwardly from the cutting head forward end and a cutting edge that is formed at the intersection of a rake surface and a relief surface. A chip former extends rearwardly from the rake surface. The chip former has a front portion that is slanted rearwardly and downwardly from the rake surface, and, a rear portion that is slanted rearwardly and upwardly with respect to the rake surface. A rear end of the rear portion joins the chip evacuation flute and form therewith a forming internal angle.