Mitsubishi Materials Corporation

Mitsubishi Metal Corporation

Hiroaki Hayashizaki

Hiroshi Hoki

Tatsuo Arai

Takayoshi Saito

Hidehiko Nagaya

Hidebumi Takahashi

Koichi Ikenaga

Osamu Tsujimura

Yasuharu Imai

Norio Aso

Toru Narita

Cutting insert

An insert clamping wedge for clamp-fixing a cutting insert, seated in an insert attachment seat formed in a cutter body, to a recessed portion formed in the insert attachment seat is provided, the insert clamping wedge including: a wedge body, wherein the insert clamping wedge is pressed into the cutter body, wherein the wedge body includes a clamp surface which comes into close contact with the cutting insert and a wedge surface of which a gap between itself and the clamp surface becomes smaller in a press-insertion direction of the wedge body, and wherein the section perpendicular to the press-insertion direction of the wedge body from the wedge surface to the clamp surface being formed in a bell shape.

Insert clamping wedge and insert-detachable type cutter

There is disclosed a clamping mechanism for a cutting insert that clamps the cutting insert by inserting the cutting insert into an insert mounting seat. The insert mounting seat is formed in a tip of a holder having a pair of contacting surfaces facing each other, and the cutting insert has a pair of contact surfaces to come in contact with the pair of contacting surfaces, respectively. The tip of the holder is provided with a pair of jaws that is formed with the pair of contacting surfaces, respectively, and that can be elastically deformed relatively in a direction that the contacting surfaces contact the contact surfaces, and a clamping means that elastically deforms the pair of jaws to bring relatively the pair of contacting surfaces close to each other and to separate them relatively from each other.

Clamping mechanism for cutting insert, and cutting insert

A throwaway insert comprises an insert body formed in a polygonal shape, a cutting face formed by a polygonal face of the insert body, a corner cutting edge which is formed in a curved shape at a corner of the cutting face, a major cutting edge which is formed along a side edge of the cutting face that is connected to a first end of the corner cutting edge, and a concave portion which is formed, in another side edge of the cutting face that is connected to a second end of the corner cutting edge, so as to be adjacent to the second end of the corner cutting edge, and so as to be made concave toward the inside of the cutting face from a tangent of the corner cutting edge drawn at the second end of the corner cutting edge. By using the throwaway insert, cut chips are prevented from being packed in a gap between the throwaway insert and a surface being machined, and the fixing rigidity of the throwaway insert is increased.

Throwaway insert and throwaway cutting tool

A cutting insert is disclosed which includes a polygonal plate-shaped insert body having two opposite faces directed in the direction of insert thickness and a plurality of peripheral faces lying between the opposite faces. The opposite faces have marginal edges with at least one of the marginal edges defining a main cutting edge. The peripheral faces intersect one another to form marginal edges with one of the marginal edges defining an auxiliary cutting edge which intersects the main cutting edge. The peripheral surface which includes the marginal edges defining the main and auxiliary cutting edges includes a rake region extending along the main and auxiliary cutting edge. This rake region is formed into a stepped formation of a plurality of sections disposed adjacent to one another to define marginal edges terminating at one ends at the main cutting edge and to be convexly shaped in such a manner that an angle defined between a respective section and one of the opposite faces which extends from the main cutting edge decreases stepwise in a direction away from the nose portion. At least one of the marginal edges of the sections has the other end extending to the marginal edge defined between the peripheral faces. Moreover, an insert cutter which employs the aforesaid insert is also disclosed.

Cutting insert and cutter

There is disclosed an insert cutter which includes a tool body having a plurality of mounting recesses formed in an outer peripheral surface thereof and a plurality of cutter inserts each releasably secured to a respective one of the mounting recesses and a plurality of pressing members each received in a respective one of the holes. Each of the mounting recesses defines an abutment face facing axially forwardly of the tool body. The tool body has a plurality of holes formed in the outer peripheral surface thereof and extending radially inwardly thereof. Each of the holes has an inner wall and is displaced rearwardly of the tool body from a respective one of the mounting recesses. Each of the cutter inserts has a face held in contact with the abutment face of a respective one of the mounting recesses. Each pressing member is pressed against the inner wall of the hole, whereby that portion of the tool body between the hole and the mounting recess is elastically deformed.

Insert cutter

An insert rotary cutter includes a cutter body having a forward end face and at least one first cutter insert releasably attached to the cutter body. The first cutter insert is of a generally triangular shape including a front face having three marginal ridges and three corner ridges. Each marginal ridge is comprised of first, second and third ridge portions. The insert has three main cutting edges each defined by a respective first ridge portion, three auxiliary cutting edges each defined by a respective third ridge portion, three corner cutting edges each defined by a respective corner ridge, and three relief cutting edges each defined by a respective second ridge portion. One of the corner cutting edges and the main and auxiliary cutting edges which intersect the corner cutting edge are indexed in active cutting position. The indexed main cutting edge extends generally axially from the body while the indexed auxiliary cutting edge extends slightly beyond the forward end face. The relief cutting edge which intersects the indexed auxiliary cutting edge being displaced rearwardly from the indexed auxiliary cutting edge.

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Tsukuba, Japan

Hiroaki Hayashizaki