Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.

Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.

Mamoru Ono

Kazuo Nakamae

Hiroyuki Murase

Atsushi Sato

Koji Yamaguchi

Yutaka Kobayashi

Katsuko Yamamoto

Kazushi Kusawake

Masato Uozumi

Katsuyuki Tanaka

Teruhiro Enami

Toshimitsu Sakata

A low-loss compact and a method for producing the compact are provided. A method for producing a compact by using coated soft magnetic powder that includes coated soft magnetic particles constituted by soft magnetic particles and insulating coatings coating outer peripheries of the soft magnetic particles includes a raw material preparation step and an irradiation step. In the raw material preparation step, a raw compact is prepared by press-forming coated soft magnetic powder. In the irradiation step, part of a surface of the raw compact is irradiated with a laser. Irradiating a part of a surface of a raw compact with laser increases the number of disrupted portions of conductive portions where constituent materials of the soft magnetic particles at the surface of the raw compact have become conductive to each other, and the loss of the compact can be decreased.

Compact, method for producing compact

Provided is a technology for manufacturing cutting tools that is capable of providing cutting tools that have a cut surface whose surface is uniformly smooth and that have a stable performance. Provided are a cutting tool manufacturing method in which a cutting tool material is cut by using, as a laser beam, a laser beam formed by combining two linearly polarized laser beams so that the directions of polarization of the two linearly polarized laser beams are at right angles to each other; a cutting tool manufacturing method in which a circularly polarized laser beam is used as a laser beam; a cutting tool manufacturing method in which a randomly polarized laser beam is used as a laser beam; a cutting tool manufactured by the manufacturing method; a cutting tool manufacturing apparatus that includes means for generating a combined laser beam formed of two linearly polarized laser beams, the directions of polarization of the two linearly polarized laser beams being at right angles to each other and an optical system that guides the combined laser beam to the cutting tool material; a cutting tool manufacturing apparatus that includes means for generating a circularly polarized laser beam; and a cutting tool manufacturing apparatus that includes means for generating a randomly polarized laser beam.

Cutting tool and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same

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Mamoru Ono