955results about "Milling tools" patented technology

The present invention relates to an indexable milling insert and a milling tool for chip removing machining. The milling insert is intended to be able to mill substantially perpendicular corners in a work piece. The milling insert comprises an upper side, a lower side and edge surfaces extending therebetween. The upper side and the lower side are substantially identical. An imaginary circle inscribed in the milling insert touches the milling insert periphery in four to six points. Lines of intersection between the edge surfaces and the sides form relative to each other substantially perpendicular main cutting edges and minor cutting edges. Each of the sides includes a support surface, each of which being provided in a plane. Each minor cutting edge projects from the plane of the associated support surface. Each major cutting edge intersects the plane of the associated support surface.

Methods of fly-cutting a workpiece are disclosed, and in methods in which the position of a fly-cutting head or its associated cutting element is known as a function of time. Also disclosed are methods of forming features, such as grooves or groove segments, in a workpiece such as a cylindrical roll. The features may be provided according to one or more disclosed patterns. Articles made using tools machined in the manner described are also provided, such as polymeric film or sheeting that exhibit certain beneficial properties.

A rotary burr comprising cemented carbide for removing material from a workpiece includes a shank and a working portion and a shank. A surface of the working portion includes a plurality of right-handed helically oriented flutes that define a plurality of cutting teeth on the working portion. Each of the plurality of cutting teeth defined by the right-handed flutes includes a front face, a back face, a tip, and a positive front face angle, and lacks a radial land adjacent the tooth tip and at the periphery of the working portion.

A fly-cutting system is disclosed, and in particular one that comprises a dynamically-controllable actuator for controlling the position, orientation, or both position and orientation of a cutting element carried by a fly-cutting head. In certain embodiments, the actuator can adjust the position or orientation of a cutting element, or both, hundreds or thousands of times per second, enabling precise control over the shape of features formed by the cutting element in a surface of a workpiece.

A method is provided for forming grooves in a polishing pad useful for planarizing a substrate in a chemical mechanical planarization process. The method maintains average velocity as a function of bit diameter to enable groove formation using a rotating bit, whereby grooves can be formed at a higher rate while maintaining high groove quality and low defectivity.

Disclosed herein are mandibular advancement devices comprising an upper splint and a lower splint, where the upper splint comprises one or more upper fins, where each upper fin is located at a distance UD from back of the upper splint; the lower splints comprise one or more lower fins, where each lower fin is located at a distance LD from back of the lower splint; where the position of the upper and lower fins is unchangeable. Also disclosed are methods of reducing partial constriction of airway during sleep for a patient, the method comprising identifying a patient in need thereof; and administering to the patient the disclosed mandibular advancement device. Also disclosed are methods of manufacturing a mandibular advancement device, the method comprising obtaining measurements from a patient's dentition; digitally designing a mandibular advancement device; and milling the mandibular advancement device.

The present invention is directed to an insert, a slotting cutter assembly and a method for machining a plurality of slots in a metallic alloy part. The insert may comprise a cutting edge, at least one primary radius, at least two secondary radii and a clearance angle. The cutting edge may form a narrow outer end at a tip of the insert and a larger width region at a distance inward from the narrow outer end. The clearance angle may extend rearward from the cutting edge. The slotting cutter assembly may comprise a plurality of inserts and a cutter body. The cutter body may comprise a plurality of retaining slots and a plurality of support portions. The retaining slot may be configured to receive the insert. The support portion may provide support for the insert.

A milling cutter comprises a cutter body having two concentric annular rings. An outer ring is provided for rough milling and includes a plurality of cutting inserts equally spaced about the periphery of a cutter body. An inner finish ring comprises a ring member having a coating of abrasive material. As a result, a workpiece can be milled by a single milling cutter with the rough cutting inserts and then the abrasive material.

A center or non-center cutting end mill for orbital drilling of fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) materials includes a shank, a neck, a cutting head and two or more flutes. The end mill has a tool geometry with the following features: a dish angle between about 2 degrees to about 6 degrees; a helix angle between about 5 degrees to about 18 degrees; an end teeth radial rake angle between about 0 degrees and about 15 degrees; a peripheral teeth radial rake angle between about 8 degrees and about 16 degrees; a gashing axial rake angle between about 3 degrees to about 10 degrees; and a primary clearance angle between about 10 degrees to about 18 degrees. The end mill is made from a tungsten carbide substrate with cemented cobalt in a range between about 3 to 10 wt. % and a diamond coating having a thickness in a range between about 8 to 20 μm.

An end mill for machining titanium includes a cutting portion having blunt cutting edges alternated with flutes. Each flute includes, in order from the cutting edge, a rake surface, a concavely shaped bending portion, a convexly shaped ejecting portion and a tooth relief edge. The convexly shaped ejecting portion has an ejection height E, which is measurable between an apex of the ejecting portion to an imaginary straight line extending from a nadir of the adjacent bending portion of the flute to the adjacent tooth relief edge. In a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis of the end mill, the ejection height E and a cutting portion diameter D_E, fulfill the condition 0.010D_E<E<0.031D_E.

A tool has a shaft and a tip on the shaft. The tip supports rougher and chipbreaker finisher wings which, for example, may be polycrystalline diamond wings. Also, the rougher and chipbreaker finisher wings may be arranged, for example, to provide either upshear or downshear forces. As another example, both upshear and downshear rougher and chipbreaker finisher wings may be arranged to produce corresponding upshear and downshear forces.

A toolholder for a cutting tool is disclosed for use with a machine tool having a main shaft or spindle with a flared or tapered end socket. The toolholder has a tool-holding end for a cutting tool and a tapered shank end for placement in the tapered socket of the machine tool spindle. The toolholder also has an annular flange near its tapered shank, the flange or collar generally being used for location and gripping by a tool exchange mechanism. An elastic spacer ring is used and compressed between said flange and the face of said machine tool shaft in machining operations for dampening vibrations and flexing of the toolholder and cutting tool.

A rotating tool includes a tool body including a first end and a second end. A plurality of first helical flutes extend from the first end of the tool body, each first helical flute of the plurality of helical flutes defining a respective first cutting edge. A plurality of second helical flutes intersect with the first helical flutes at non-zero distances from the first and the second ends of the tool body, each second helical flute of the plurality of second helical flutes defining a respective second cutting edge. The first helical flutes and the second helical flutes are of opposite hands. The first helical flutes have a first pitch and the second helical flutes have a second pitch. A plurality of chip divider recesses are formed along each first cutting edge.

The present invention provides a cutting insert, a rotating cutting tool holding said cutting insert and a cutting method using the tool which is able to prevent the occurrence of burrs and to cut a smooth finished surface. In a rotating cutting tool which carries a plurality of cutting inserts, at least one insert is made of single crystal diamond 3A, and the minor cutting edge of the insert has an arc shaped portion whose radius is in the range of 10 mm or more to 500 mm or less. A high hard material other than single crystal diamond, for example PCD 3B, is used for the remainder of the cutting inserts. It is preferable that a cutting edge of single crystal diamond 3A be projected to the rotating axis direction in the range of 0.01 mm or more to 0.05 mm or less, compared with the cutting edges of high hard material.

A rotary cutting tool formed from a blank, the rotary cutting tool comprising at least one tooth having a root, a cutting edge formed of veined PCD, and a face disposed between the root and the cutting edge. The face, as viewed in a cross-section perpendicular to an axis of the cutting tool, includes a first curved surface proximate the cutting edge and a second curved surface proximate the root and the first curved surface. For each cutting edge, the blank is provided with a respective groove having a leading surface that corresponds in shape to the first curved surface of the respective tooth.

A simple and low cost method of replacing an abradable portion on the fan casing of a turbojet includes an inside heating belt together with holding sectors therefor are put into place against the abradable portion, each holding sector including an inflatable bladder, and the abradable portion and the inside heating belt being sandwiched in full between the fan casing and the bladders, the holding sectors themselves being held in place by a plurality of straps attached to the fan casing by fixing points.

A hard coating includes two first crystalline phases, and a second crystalline phase containing AlN of a wurtzite-type crystal structure disposed therebetween. The two first crystalline phases each include, independently, a laminate structure having a Ti_1-x1Al_x1N phase having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure, and an Al_x2Ti_1-x2N phase having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure that are alternately stacked. An Al composition ratio x1 satisfies a relationship 0.5≦x1≦0.75, and an Al composition ratio x2 satisfies a relationship 0.75<x2≦0.95. The laminate structure includes a region in which an Al concentration periodically changes along a stacking direction of the Ti_1-x1Al_x1N phase and the Al_x2Ti_1-x2N phase. In this region, a difference between a maximum value of the Al composition ratio x2 and a minimum value of the Al composition ratio x1 is greater than 0.25.

A segmented orbital drill includes a segmented portion with a semi-finishing cutting portion and a plurality of finishing cutting portions. The semi-finishing cutting portion and finishing cutting portions are separated by grooves formed by a front wall and a rear wall. The segmented portion allows for a fresh cutting edge (i.e., rear wall of the groove) to be revealed as the orbital drill wears in the axial direction. The segmented portion also causes less contact with the workpiece, which reduces power consumption and minimizes deflection of the orbital drill. The segmented orbital drill also includes an optional pilot at one end of the drill, and a clearance neck portion between a shank and the segmented portion. A method of machining a workpiece using the segmented orbital drill is also disclosed.

The invention discloses Ti(C,N) base metal ceramic and a preparation method thereof. Raw materials of the metal ceramic comprise titanium carbonitride Ti(0.5 of C and 0.5 of N), tungsten carbide WC, molybdenum carbide/molybdenum Mo2C/Mo, niobium carbide NbC, vanadium carbide VC, cobalt Co and nickel Ni powder, wherein the content of NbC ranges from 3 wt% to 15 wt%, the VC content is 0.3-3%, and the VC content changes along with the content of NbC. Hard phases formed by the materials are of two core-ring structures, one structure is a ring-shaped phase structure containing typical black core phases and inner ring phases, or outer ring phases and black core phases, and the other structure is a ring-shaped phase structure containing white core phases. The total credit of the black core phasesin the ring-shaped phase structure containing the black core phases and the inner ring phases, or the outer ring phases and the black core phases is 10-20%, the total credit of the inner ring phasesis 0.5-2%, and the total credit of the white core phases in the ring-shaped structure containing the white core phases is 5-10%. Chemical components of some or all white core phases are different fromthose of the inner ring phases, and the content of the Nb element in some or all white core phases is 30-40 wt% higher than the content of the Nb element in the inner ring phases. The Ti(C,N) base metal ceramic has thermal shock resistant performance and cutting performance.