| Walter AG Patent applications |
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| 20110311805 | CUTTING TOOL - The invention relates to a cutting tool having a substrate base body and a single or multi-layered coating attached thereupon, wherein at least one layer of the coating is a metal oxide layer produced in the PVD process or in the CVD process and the metal oxide layer has a grain structure wherein there is structural disorder within a plurality of the existing grains that are characterized in that in electron diffraction images of the grains, point-shaped reflections occur up to a maximum lattice spacing d | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110268514 | PVD COATED TOOL - The invention concerns a cutting tool comprising a main body and a multi-layer coating applied thereto. To provide improved cutting tools which have increased resistance to comb cracking, tribochemical wear and cratering caused thereby the main body comprises a hard metal which includes 5 to 8% by weight of Co, 0 to 2% by weight of TaC, 0 to 1% by weight of NbC and 89 to 95% by weight of WC with a mean grain size of 1 to 5 μm, and the coating has a first layer of TiAlN having a layer thickness of 1 to 5 μm, and a second layer of aluminium oxide having a layer thickness of 1 to 4 μm, wherein the coating further additionally includes on the second layer of aluminium oxide n alternately mutually superposedly applied layers of TiAlN and layers of aluminium oxide respectively having a layer thickness of 0.1 to 0.5 μm, wherein n relates to each individual layer and is an even number of 0 to 10, and wherein the total layer thickness of the coating is 2 to 16 μm and the coating is produced in the PVD process. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110182681 | TOOL HAVING A METAL OXIDE COATING - The invention concerns a cutting tool comprising a base body and a multi-layer coating applied thereto, which, possibly besides further layers, includes a plurality of main layers A and intermediate layers B applied alternately directly one upon the other, wherein the main layers A and the intermediate layers B are respectively metal oxide layers produced by the PVD process, the thickness of the main layers A is in the range of 4 nm to 1 μm, and the thickness of the intermediate layers B is in the range of 2 nm to 50 nm, wherein the ratio of the thicknesses of the intermediate layers B to the thicknesses of the main layers A is in the range of 1:2 to 1:100. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110045283 | ABRASION-BLASTED CUTTING INSERT AND METHOD - The invention relates to a cutting insert and a method for its production, in which a hard-metal, cermet, or ceramic substrate body is coated by means of a PVD, PCVD or CVD method with a single- or multi-layer coating of carbides, nitrides, oxides, carbonitrides, oxinitrides, oxicarbides, oxicarbonitrides, borides, boron nitrides, boron carbides, boron carbonitrides, boron oxinitrides, boron oxocarbides, boron oxocarbonitrides of the elements of groups IVa to VIIa of the periodic table and/or of aluminium and/or mixed-metal phases and/or phase mixtures of the above-named compounds and, after the coating, the substrate body is subjected to dry or wet abrasion blasting using a granular blasting abrasive. In order to provide a cutting insert with improved wear resistance and improved cutting properties, in particular improved ridge-type crack resistance and/or tensile capacity, according to the invention the hardness of the abrasive is lower than the hardness of the outermost layer of the coating or the hardness of the abrasive is higher than the hardness of the outermost layer of the coating and a layer the hardness of which is higher than the hardness of the abrasive is arranged below the outermost sheet, wherein at least portions of the layer(s) arranged above the layer the hardness of which is higher than the hardness of the abrasive are abraded by the abrasion blasting, the total layer thickness of the coating is at most 40 μm, the abrasion blasting takes place at a blasting pressure of 1 bar to 10 bar and is carried out for a period which is sufficient for 10 MPa<Δ S | 02-24-2011 |
| 20100189978 | TOOL WITH MULTI-LAYERED METAL OXIDE COATING - The present invention relates to a cutting tool having a base body and a multilayered coating applied thereto, wherein at least two layers of the multilayered coating arranged one on top of the other contain, or consist of, metal oxide of the same metal or of different metals. In order to create cutting tools which are better than those of the prior art, it is proposed according to the invention that the at least two metal oxide layers arranged one on top of the other be produced successively by different PVD-processes, selected from i) reactive magnetron sputtering (RMS), ii) arc vapour deposition (arc-PVD), iii) ion plating, iv) electron beam vapour deposition and v) laser deposition, wherein modifications of the respective processes i) to v) do not constitute different PVD-processes. | 07-29-2010 |
