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| 20090114628 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FORMING CUTTING ELEMENTS HAVING A CHAMFERED EDGE FOR EARTH-BORING TOOLS - Apparatuses for forming chamfers on superabrasive tables of cutting elements for earth-boring tools include a chuck for temporarily holding and positioning a cutting element, and at least one emitter for emitting a beam of energy toward an edge of a superabrasive table of a cutting element held and positioned by the chuck. Methods of forming cutting elements for earth-boring tools and methods for forming earth-boring tools are also disclosed. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20110024200 | CUTTING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF FORMING THEREOF - A cutting element for use in a drilling bit and/or milling bit having a cutter body made of a substrate having an upper surface, and a superabrasive layer overlying the upper surface of the substrate. The cutting element further including a sleeve extending around a portion of a side surface of the superabrasive layer and a side surface of the substrate, wherein the sleeve exerts a radially compressive force on the superabrasive layer. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110031034 | POLYCRYSTALLINE COMPACTS INCLUDING IN-SITU NUCLEATED GRAINS, EARTH-BORING TOOLS INCLUDING SUCH COMPACTS, AND METHODS OF FORMING SUCH COMPACTS AND TOOLS - Polycrystalline compacts include hard polycrystalline materials comprising in situ nucleated smaller grains of hard material interspersed and inter-bonded with larger grains of hard material. The average size of the larger grains may be at least about 250 times greater than the average size of the in situ nucleated smaller grains. Methods of forming polycrystalline compacts include nucleating and catalyzing the formation of smaller grains of hard material in the presence of larger grains of hard material, and catalyzing the formation of inter-granular bonds between the grains of hard material. For example, nucleation particles may be mixed with larger diamond grains, a carbon source, and a catalyst. The mixture may be subjected to high temperature and high pressure to form in smaller diamond grains using the nucleation particles, the carbon source, and the catalyst, and to catalyze formation of diamond-to-diamond bonds between the smaller and larger diamond grains. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110061942 | POLYCRYSTALLINE COMPACTS HAVING MATERIAL DISPOSED IN INTERSTITIAL SPACES THEREIN, CUTTING ELEMENTS AND EARTH-BORING TOOLS INCLUDING SUCH COMPACTS, AND METHODS OF FORMING SUCH COMPACTS - Polycrystalline compacts include smaller and larger hard grains that are interbonded to form a polycrystalline hard material. The larger grains may be at least about 150 times larger than the smaller grains. An interstitial material comprising one or more of a boride, a carbide, a nitride, a metal carbonate, a metal bicarbonate, and a non-catalytic metal may be disposed between the grains. The compacts may be used as cutting elements for earth-boring tools such as drill bits, and may be disposed on a substrate. Methods of making polycrystalline compacts include coating smaller hard particles with a coating material, mixing the smaller particles with larger hard particles, and sintering the mixture to form a polycrystalline hard material including interbonded smaller and larger grains. The sizes of the smaller and larger particles may be selected to cause the larger grains to be at least about 150 times larger than the smaller grains. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110073379 | CUTTING ELEMENT AND METHOD OF FORMING THEREOF - A cutting element comprising a substrate having an upper surface, a rear surface spaced apart from the upper surface, and a side surface connected to the rear surface and upper surface. The cutting element further includes a superabrasive layer comprising a rear surface, an upper surface, and a side surface connected to and extending between the rear surface and upper surface, wherein the rear surface of the superabrasive layer overlies the upper surface of the substrate. The cutting element is also formed to include a jacket overlying the side surface of the substrate and abutting a portion of the rear surface of the superabrasive layer, wherein the jacket comprises a flange extending along a portion of the side surface of the superabrasive layer. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110073380 | PRODUCTION OF REDUCED CATALYST PDC VIA GRADIENT DRIVEN REACTIVITY - A method of forming a PDC cutter having solvent metal catalyst located adjacent the diamond and/or in the diamond and a layer of reactive material on the layer of diamond, the layer of reactive material for promoting the flow of the solvent metal catalyst material from the layer of diamond under high pressure and high temperature. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110088954 | POLYCRYSTALLINE COMPACTS INCLUDING NANOPARTICULATE INCLUSIONS, CUTTING ELEMENTS AND EARTH-BORING TOOLS INCLUDING SUCH COMPACTS, AND METHODS OF FORMING SUCH COMPACTS - Polycrystalline compacts include non-catalytic nanoparticles in interstitial spaces between interbonded grains of hard material in a polycrystalline hard material. Cutting elements and earth-boring tools include such polycrystalline compacts. Methods of forming polycrystalline compacts include sintering hard particles and non-catalytic nanoparticles to form a polycrystalline material. Methods of forming cutting elements include infiltrating interstitial spaces between interbonded grains of hard material in a polycrystalline material with a plurality of non-catalytic nanoparticles. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110132666 | POLYCRYSTALLINE TABLES HAVING POLYCRYSTALLINE MICROSTRUCTURES AND CUTTING ELEMENTS INCLUDING POLYCRYSTALLINE TABLES - Cutting elements comprise a substrate and an unleached polycrystalline table attached on an end of the substrate. The polycrystalline table comprises a plurality of continuously inter-bonded grains of a superhard material and a quantity of catalyst material disposed in interstitial spaces between grains of the plurality of continuously inter-bonded grains of a superhard material. A mean grain size of the plurality of continuously inter-bonded grains is at least substantially uniform throughout the polycrystalline table and the quantity of catalyst material varies across the polycrystalline table in a direction parallel to a central axis of the polycrystalline table. | 06-09-2011 |
