Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Noboru Kusano

Isao Fuwa

Masahiro Ikegami

Ryuji Otani

Masao Torigoe

Hidezumi Okamura

Shoichi Hongo

Toshikazu Hamada

Ryuji Ohtani

Kyoichiro Nakayama

A cutting tool is provided which includes a steel metal body and a cemented carbide cutting tip secured to the metal body by a metallic layer. The metallic layer has a high-strength metallic portion and a high-toughness metallic portion. The high-strength metallic portion is made of a metal having a thermal expansion rate between a thermal expansion rate of the metal body and the thermal expansion rate of the cutting tip. The high-toughness metallic portion is located between edge portions of a securing region of the metal body and the cutting tip and has toughness larger than that of the high-strength metallic portion. The cutting tool can decrease the possibility of cracks being generated at the edge portions of the securing region by selecting a thermal expansion rate of the metallic layer so as to decrease the thermal stress caused during the cooling process after welding, and further by positioning a high-toughness metallic layer at the edge portions of the securing region where stress is concentrated and positioning a high-strength metallic layer meeting the strength requirement at the remaining portion of the securing region.

Cutting tool and method for making the same

A saw blade preventing 'fluff' or 'return' of fibers from occurring when used to cut wood or the like object and rendering any finishing work unnecessary is formed with a unique combination of cutting teeth and biting teeth, the biting teeth being disposed, on a cut path mainly by means of the cutting teeth, either on top surface of or in front of each cutting tooth in cutting direction of the saw blade and to have a smaller width than the cutting teeth, for realizing a biting operation by the biting teeth and the cutting operation by the cutting teeth in the same sawing step.

Saw blade

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Osaka, Japan

Noboru Kusano