Unaxis-balzers Aktiengesellschaft

Unaxis Balzers Aktiengsellschaft

Harald Zimmermann

Volker Derflinger

Christian Wohlrab

Method for producing cutting tools provides a first hard material coating on a first region of a tool base body containing at least one cutting edge, using a plasma vacuum coating process. A second hard material coating is provided on a second region which is adjacent the first, also via plasma vacuum coating process. Hard material for the coatings is a carbide, oxide, oxicarbide, nitride, nitrocarbide, oxinitride or nitrooxicarbide of at least two of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Al. The first coating has a content of at least two of the metal elements which is at most 2 at % different from the content of the two metal elements in the second coating if the tool is for higher adhesive strength than hardness. The first coating has a content of the two metal elements that is different from the content of the two metal elements of the second coating by more than 2 at % if the tool is for higher hardness than high adhesive strength.

Method for producing cutting tools

A set of machining tools containing at least two separate tools is provided, one of which is tailored for a certain type of application and the other tailored for another application or use. The first tool is particularly adapted for applications having service requirements where the coating on the basic body of the tool must have high adhesive strength, but need not have high hardness, and the second tool is for service requirements of high hardness for the hard material coating, where the adhesive strength is not important.

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Feldkirch-Levis, Austria

Harald Zimmermann