Diamond Innovations. Inc.

Lawrence Thomas Dues

Rui Shao

Gerold Weinl

Raja Kountanya

Jacob Palmer

Kenji Yumoto

The present application is a new improvement in the fine-grained cubic boron nitride sintered compact which may be employed to manufacture a cutting tool. The compact contains at least 80 vol % cBN with a metallic binder system and is sintered under HPHT conditions. The improvement incorporates alloys of aluminum in the metallic binder system.

PCBN sintered compact

A cubic boron nitride (cBN)-based composite including about 30-65 vol. % cBN, about 15-45 vol. % titanium (Ti)-containing binders, about 2-20 vol. % zirconium dioxide (ZrO), about 3-15 vol. % cobalt-tungsten-borides (CoWB), and about 2-15 vol. % aluminum oxide (AlO).

Composite formed of cubic boron nitride and method of making thereof

A cubic boron nitride (cBN)-based composite including about 30-65 vol. % cBN, about 3-30 vol. % zirconium (Zr)-containing compounds, about 0-10 vol. % cobalt-tungsten-borides (CoWB), about 2-30 vol. % aluminum oxide (AlO), about 0.5-10 vol. % tungsten borides, and less than or equal to about 5 vol. % aluminum nitride (AlN).

Composite formed of cubic boron nitride without Ti-based ceramide and method of making thereof

The present application is a new improvement in the fine-grained cubic Boron Nitride sintered compact which may be employed to manufacture a cutting tool. The compact contains at least 80 vol % cBN and is sintered under HPHT conditions. The invention has lower levels of unreacted cobalt in the final sintered material than conventions materials. The invention has proved beneficial in the machining of ferrous metal alloys such as sintered metal alloys.

PcBN compact for machining of ferrous alloys

Multi-step milling processes to prepare cBN composite powder forms a first powder mixture by adding a binder and a first cBN component, mills the first powder mixture for a first time period, combines a second cBN component with the milled first powder mixture to form a second powder mixture, and mills the second powder mixture for a second time period (less than the first time period) to form the cBN composite powder. A ratio of the D50 value of the second cBN component to the D50 value of the first cBN component is at least 3.0. Two-step milling with different milling times for the two cBN component fractions controls the amount of mill debris in the cBN composite powder mixture. Further processing of the cBN composite powder under HPHT conditions forms a cBN-based ceramic with an average value of a cBN particle free diameter of less than 2.0 microns.

Method of preparing a multimodal cubic boron nitride powder

A method of producing at least one through-hole and countersink in at least one ultrahard insert including the steps of providing a body having a first major surface and an opposite second major surface; forming at least one pilot hole in said body using a laser, wherein said at least one pilot hole extends from said first major surface to the opposite second major surface of said body; cutting said pilot hole using a wire electrical discharge machine (WEDM) to produce a straight cylindrical portion and top conical portion; forming a countersink on at least one side of said body using an electrical discharge grinding machine (EDG); and severing said at least one ultrahard insert from said body forming a finished insert, wherein said finished insert includes a through-hole and a countersink.

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