| Tungaloy Corporation Patent applications |
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| 20120114960 | Cermet and Coated Cermet - A cermet has a WC first hard phase, a second hard phase including one or more of a carbide, nitride and carbonitride of an element(s) of groups 4, 5 and 6 of the Periodic Table including a titanium element, and a mutual solid solution thereof, and a binder phase. In the cermet, a carbon amount C | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120090247 | Coated Cubic Boron Nitride Sintered Body Tool - A cubic boron nitride sintered substrate has a coating with lower and upper layers. The upper layer has an average layer thickness of 0.5 to 3.0 μm and is formed from a compound of a compositional formula Mα, where M represents one or more of Ti, V, Zr, Nb, Mo, Al, Si, and α is one or more of C, N, B and O. The lower layer has an average thickness of 0.5 to 3.0 μm and has alternated first and second thin layers. The first thin layer is formed from a compound with compositional formula (Ti | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120087751 | Cutting Insert - A cutting insert has at least one cutting edge, a rake face extending from the cutting edge, a flank intersecting with the rake face by having the cutting edge therebetween, a concave portion recessed downward of the rake face at the backward of the rake face as viewed from the cutting edge, and at least one projection projecting upward from a bottom face of the concave portion, wherein an entirety of the projection is positioned under an extension surface of the rake face, and at least a part of a top face of the projection is away from an extension surface of the rake face as it goes away from the cutting edge. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087749 | Cutting Insert and Face Milling Cutter - A cutting insert includes a cutting edge formed at an intersection of a rake face formed on a first surface and a relief face with a positive relief angle. The relief face includes a major relief face located adjacent to a major cutting edge, a first minor relief face located adjacent to the first minor cutting edge, and an intermediate relief face located adjacent to the intermediate cutting edge and extending between the major relief face and the first minor relief face. The intermediate relief face includes a protruding curved relief face extending from the first surface. An intersection of the curved relief face and the rake face has a predetermined radius of curvature and has substantially the same shape as that of an intersection of the curved relief face and a second surface. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120087748 | Cutting Insert and Indexable Face Mill - A pair of sub-flank surfaces is formed at a vertex angle portion of an insert body having a substantially polygonal, plate-like shape, and between the sub flank surfaces, a vertex flank surface at a vertical angle portion is formed substantially in a protrusive, curved shape, and is smoothly connected to the sub-flank surfaces in a tangential direction. The vertex flank surface at the vertex angle portion is extended across the entire thickness of the insert body, and boundary lines, between the vertex flank surface at the vertex angle portion and a pair of minor cutting edges, are parallel to each other. A second curved ridge line, which is formed between (i) the flank surface and (ii) the rake surface, and a first curved ridge line, which is formed between (i) the flank surface and (ii) the seat surface, have approximately same shape. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120070243 | Reamer - A reamer has a center axis and includes a single cutting edge, provided for a cutting part that is arranged at a leading end side. The reamer includes three guide pads in the cutting part. The first guide pad is formed so as to project to the side almost opposite that where the single cutting edge is formed. The second guide pad is arranged in one area of areas, along a peripheral face of the cutting part, that are located between the first guide pad and the single cutting edge and that are directed toward sides opposite each other, and the third guide pad is arranged in the other area | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120063860 | Drilling Tool - Chips are segmented to have a desired width and the chip controllability is improved and the tool rigidity is improved. A drilling tool is provided that includes: a tool body; a chip discharge groove formed at the outer periphery of the tool body; at least one sub-groove formed at an inner face facing the front side in the tool rotation direction T of the chip discharge groove; a rake face; a tip end flank face; and a cutting edge formed at a ridge line at which the tip end flank face intersects with the rake face. The plurality of rake faces form a step-like shape having at least one step section. The drilling tool is configured so that the turnup section of the sub-groove is turned up in a different direction from the direction along which the turnup section of the chip discharge groove is turned up. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063858 | Indexable Drill and Drill Body - A drill body of an indexable drill includes: a chip discharging groove which discharges chips produced by a cutting insert on a wall surface defining the chip discharging groove; and an insert attachment seat on which the cutting insert formed in a front end side, in a rotational axis direction, of a first wall surface of the chip discharging groove that faces a drill rotation direction is detachably mounted. A chip formation portion is formed which includes at least any of a plurality of protruding portions that protrudes outward from a second wall surface and a plurality of concave portions that is concave inward from the second wall surface, at least in a front end portion of the second wall surface of the chip discharging groove that faces a rear side of the drill rotation direction. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120063857 | Indexable Drill and Drill Body - An indexable drill includes an insert attachment seat and a chip discharging groove formed so as to extend from a leading end surface to a trailing end side of the drill in the direction of the axis of rotation and through which chips generated by the cutting insert are discharged, and in that a wall surface defining the chip discharging groove at least partly includes a smoothed surface with a surface roughness of at most 0.5 μm in terms of arithmetic average roughness Ra, the wall surface of the chip discharging groove is partly formed on a thinned wall portion thinned by the central edge attachment seat and the outer peripheral edge attachment seat, and a crossing portion between the first wall surface and the second wall surface in the thinned wall portion is rounded. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120035045 | Cubic Boron Nitride Sintered Body and Coated Cubic Boron Nitride Sintered Body - A cubic boron nitride-containing sintered body has heightened fracture resistance and toughness without lowered wear resistance. The body has a binder phase containing titanium nitride and titanium carbonitride, cubic boron nitride and inevitable impurities. A distance between a Bragg angle 2θ of a (200) plane diffraction line of titanium carbonitride and a Bragg angle 2θ of a (200) plane diffraction line of titanium nitride in an X-ray diffraction measurement using a Cu—Kα line is 0.30° or more and 0.60° or less, and a full width at half maximum intensity of the (200) plane diffraction line of titanium carbonitride is 0.30° or more and 0.50° or less. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120009029 | Cutting Insert and Cutting Edge Replaceable Cutting Tool - 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. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120003466 | Cermet and Coated Cermet - A cermet has a hard phase which contains W and nitrogen, and includes at least one selected from a carbide, nitride and carbonitride of a metal having Ti as a main component, and a binder phase having an iron group metal as a main component. A W amount contained in the whole cermet is 5 to 40% by weight, an interfacial phase including a complex carbonitride with a larger W amount than a W amount of the hard phase being present between grains of the hard phase, and when a W amount contained in the interfacial phase based on the whole metal element is represented by Wb (atomic %), and a W amount contained in the hard phase based on the whole metal element is represented by Wh (atomic %), then, an atomic ratio of Wb to Wh (Wb/Wh) is 1.7 or more. The cermet is excellent in fracture resistance and wear resistance. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110293381 | Cutting Edge-Replaceable Cutting Tool and Cutting Insert for Use Therein - A cutting edge-replaceable cutting tool includes a tool body, and a cutting insert is removably installed on the tool body. The cutting tool-replaceable cutting tool includes an insert mounting seat formed on the tool body and on which the cutting insert is mounted, and a upper wall portion formed integrally with the tool body and overhanging the insert mounting seat. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110255925 | Cutting Insert and Indexable Tooth Cutting Tool Using the Same - A cutting insert is removably mountable on an insert seat formed in a peripheral of a tool body rotated around an axis O and of substantial disc shape. The cutting insert includes a substantially planar insert body of a substantially square shape in plan view, a flank at an upper face of the body, a rake face at a side of the body intersecting with the flank, and a cutting edge at an intersection ridge between the rake face and the flank. The cutting edge is a substantial involute in side view of the body, the rake face is inclined to an inside of the body from an upper toward a lower face, and at least a front end arranged in a peripheral of the tool body is concave constituting a part of a substantially conical side face. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110150585 | Insert and Side Cutter - An insert has a lower face formed in a substantially quadrangular shape, a flank formed on an upper face formed in a convex face rising upward from two opposing sides of the quadrangular face, a pair of rake faces rising upward from the other two opposing sides of the quadrangular face and formed in first side faces intersecting with the convex curved face, a pair of corner edges formed respectively in ridgeline portions between the rake face and the flank, and a pair of second side faces which intersect obliquely to the two opposing sides of the quadrangular face and rise upward from the lower face to notch an intersection portion between the lower face and the upper face. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110150584 | Side Cutter - A side cutter has a substantially disk-shaped or substantially ring-shaped cutter body, two or more peripheral cutting inserts each having a cutting edge protruding from a peripheral surface of the cutter body, and two or more corner cutting inserts each having a cutting edge protruding from an end surface of the cutter body. The peripheral cutting insert and the corner cutting insert are arranged in the cutter body such that the cutting edges adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction have overlapping rotational trajectories around the axis of rotation of the cutter body. In addition, a peripheral cutting insert and a corner cutting insert belonging to an insert set are spaced from each other in an axial direction of the cutter body and are arranged substantially in the same position in the circumferential direction of the cutter body. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110135408 | Temporary Coupling Mechanism for Cutting Tip and Indexable Cutting Tool with Same - A temporary coupling mechanism facilitates replacement of a cutting tip in a pocket of a cutting tool, by preventing the cutting tip from falling out of the pocket when a clamping member, e.g., a screw member or wedge member, is loosened. The pocket is provided with a first coupling portion and the cutting tip is provided with a second coupling portion configured to engage the first coupling portion. In one embodiment, the second coupling portion is at least one concave groove or convex portion located in a predetermined position of the cutting tip. A convex portion or a concave groove is provided in at least one of the pocket's tip mounting seat and the clamping member to engage the concave groove and the convex portion of the cutting tip. The concave groove extends substantially in parallel with the seat face of the tip mounting seat and the convex portion is inserted and fitted into the concave groove so as to be engaged thereto when the cutting tip is inserted into the tip mounting seat and is taken out of the tip mounting seat, causing the cutting tip to be movable only in a predetermined direction relative to the tip mounting seat. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110117344 | Coated Material - A coated material for a cutting tool can realize long life-time under severe cutting processing conditions such as high-speed processing, high-feed-rate processing, higher hardness of a material to be cut, cutting of a difficult-to-cut material, etc. In a coated material in which a coating is coated on the surface of a substrate, at least one layer of the coating is a hard film having a cubic metallic compound which includes at least one metal element M selected from Al, Si, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo and W, and at least one element selected from C, N and O. An X-ray intensity distribution of an α axis in a pole figure for a (111) plane of the hard film has a maximum intensity in an α angle range of 75 to 90°, and an X-ray intensity distribution of an α axis in a pole figure for a (220) plane of the hard film has a maximum intensity in an α angle range of 75 to 90°. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116879 | Clamping Member, Tool Holder and Indexable Cutting Tool - A clamping member for reliably inserting a protrusion portion thereof into a mounting hole of a cutting insert so as to engage the protrusion portion with an inner peripheral surface of the cutting insert and strongly clamp the cutting insert on a tool holder. The clamping member includes a body having a top surface engageable with a head of a clamping bolt, a bottom surface facing the tool holder and a bolt hole for insertion of the clamping bolt, and a protrusion portion protruding from the bottom surface and being engageable with a mounting hole formed in the cutting insert. The protrusion portion has an inclined surface facing toward a rotational direction about a center axis of the clamping bolt, the inclined surface is inclined so that the protrusion portion is gradually tapered from a base side thereof proximate the bottom surface toward an end side thereof distal from the bottom surface. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110014426 | Sintered Cubic Boron Nitride Tool - 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. The sintered cubic boron nitride tool is such that: assuming a reference length longer than five times an average particle size of cubic boron nitride is S, when a total length of profile curves of cubic boron nitride included in the reference length S of the chamfer honing surface is LCC, when a total length of profile curves of the binder phase included in the reference length S of the chamfer honing surface is LCB, and a ratio of LCC to LCB is PC(PC=LCC/LCB), and when a total length of profile curves of cubic boron nitride included in the reference length S of the round honing surface is LRC, a total length of profile curves of the binder phase included in the reference length S of the round honing surface is LRB, and a ratio of LRC to LRB is PR(PR=LRC/LRB), then, a ratio of PR to PC (PR/PC) satisfies the relation of 1.2≦PR/PC≦8.0. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20100003097 | Drilling Tool - There is provided a drilling tool having a substantially columnar tool body to be rotated around an axial line, a cutting edge located at a front end portion of the tool body, and a chip suction hole which is formed inside the tool body in a direction of the axial line for sucking chips generated by the cutting edge. The chip suction hole has a main hole portion extending toward a drill base along the axial line, a narrow hole portion located at a front end of the main hole portion, the narrow hole portion having a cross section smaller than that of the main hole portion and a suction opening located at a front end of the narrow hole portion and opened in the vicinity of the cutting edge, the suction opening having a cross section larger than that of the narrow hole portion. | 01-07-2010 |
