Mitsubishi Hitachi Tool Engineering, Ltd.

Moldino Tool Engineering, Ltd.

Kenji Nagafuchi

Yoshiyuki Kobayashi

Yasuhiro Kiuchi

A cutting insert includes a rake face, a seating face facing an opposite side to the rake face and seated on an insert mounting seat, and a flank face extending around the rake face and the seating face, in which two cutting edges each having an arcuate cutting edge portion extending in an arc shape and a linear cutting edge portion which is in contact with the arcuate cutting edge portion are formed on an intersecting ridgeline portion between the rake face and the flank face, a groove portion having a wall surface coming into contact with a projection portion protruding from a bottom surface of the insert mounting seat is formed on the seating face, and the groove portion has a narrow width portion in which a groove width decreases from one end side toward the other end side in a direction in which the groove portion extends.

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Chiba, Japan

Kenji Nagafuchi