Saw Blade Guide Grooves for Cutting Stability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing saw blades face issues with guiding the cutting tool during the parting process, leading to unintentional angles or arcs in cuts due to lateral forces, particularly when cutting fibrous materials like insulating materials.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating guide grooves that protrude deeper into the base body than sawtooth grooves, with outer edges set back further than sawtooth groove edges, to stabilize the cutting direction and prevent the saw blade from running laterally, thereby improving guiding properties and allowing for precise cuts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If guide grooves are added to the saw blade, then guiding properties and cutting stability are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveguiding propertiesVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The guide grooves are integrated into the same base body as the sawtooth grooves, forming a unified groove system. Both types of grooves are created through a single profiling process on one side of the base body, merging the guiding function with the cutting function in one structure rather than adding separate guiding components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The grooves in the base body serve multiple functions: the sawtooth grooves create cutting edges for severing the workpiece, while the guide grooves provide directional guidance during cutting. This multi-functional groove design eliminates the need for separate guiding mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Manufacturing precision

If guide grooves protrude deeper into the base body, then cutting direction stability is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecutting line accuracyVSAvoidgroove formation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

Both the guide grooves and sawtooth grooves are formed in a single profiling process using one grinding tool or profiling device. The process creates all groove types simultaneously by moving the tool along predetermined paths, eliminating the need for multiple separate manufacturing steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The profiling process varies the depth parameter along the groove length, creating deeper sections for guide grooves and shallower sections for sawtooth grooves. This parameter variation is achieved through controlled tool movement and depth modulation during the single profiling operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP2714346B1Saw blade
Publication Date: 2017.05.10 ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
  • EP2714346B1 patent drawingFigure 1~3

AI summary

The invention relates to a separation tool for separation by machining, in particular a saw blade (10a, b), having a main body (12a, b) and a saw toothing (14a, b) arranged on the main body (12a, b), which is provided with saw tooth grooves (16a, b), the outer edges of which (18a, b) form cutting edges (20a, b) of the saw toothing (14a, b). According to the invention, the saw toothing (14a, b) is provided with at least one guide groove (22a, b), which extends deeper into the main body (12a, b) than at least one saw tooth groove (16a, b) and/or the outer edge (24a, b) thereof extends deeper into the main body (12a, b) than at least one outer edge (18a, b) of at least one saw tooth groove (16a, b).