Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Namiki Precision Jewel Co., Ltd.

Toshio Nomura

Nobuyuki Kitagawa

Mitsunori Kobayashi

Kazutaka Isobe

Hideki Moriguchi

Naoya Omori

Masuo Chudo

Katsuya Uchino

Masaaki Tobioka

Takaharu Yamamoto

Kazuo Noguchi

Akihiko Ikegaya

Akio Hara

Daisuke Murakami

Kazuo Yamagata

Tsuyoshi Asai

Minoru Nakano

Kunihiro Takahashi

Keiichi Tsuda

Yoshikatsu Mori

Hisanori Ohara

Hidehiro Uchiumi

Yoichi Yaguchi

Yasuhiro Saito

Yasuhiro Shimizu

Hiroshi Tsukada

Katuyosi Saito

Tosiaki Nakamata

Naoko Iwashimizu

Toshihiro Iida

A coated cemented carbide member includes a cemented carbide base material containing a binder metal of at least one iron family metal and a hard phase, and a coating layer provided on the surface of the cemented carbide base material. The hard phase contains at least one metal component selected from carbides, nitrides, carbo-nitrides and carbonic nitrides of Zr and/or Hf and WC. A layer consisting of only WC and an, iron family metal or a binder phase enriched layer or a low hardness layer is provided on an outermost surface of each insert edge portion of the cemented carbide base material. The coating layer is a single or multiple layer consisting of at least one metal component selected from carbides, nitrides, carbo-nitrides, oxides and borides of metals belonging to the groups IVB, VB and VIB of the periodic table. Due to this structure, it is possible to improve chipping resistance with no deterioration of wear resistance in the coated cemented carbide member to be used, for example, as a cutting tool.

Coated cemented carbide member

Coated cutting tool and a process for the production of the same

An improved coated hard alloy tool having a substrate made of a hard alloy, and a multi-layer ceramic coating film provided on the surface of the substrate, the coating film including at least one oxide layer. The top several layers of the coating film are missing partially or completely in an area where the tool is brought into frictional contact with a workpiece. At least one oxide layer (such as Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 layer) is included in the missing layers. This increases wear resistance of the coated hard alloy tool.

Coated hard alloy tool

A coated cemented carbide member includes a cemented carbide base material containing a binder metal of at least one iron family metal and a hard phase, and a coating layer provided on the surface of the cemented carbide base material. The hard phase contains at least one metal component selected from carbides, nitrides, carbo-nitrides and carbonic nitrides of Zr and/or Hf and WC. A layer consisting of only WC and an iron family metal or a binder phase enriched layer or a low hardness layer is provided on an outermost surface of each insert edge portion of the cemented carbide base material. The coating layer is a single or multiple layer consisting of at least one metal component selected from carbides, nitrides, carbo-nitrides, oxides and borides of metals belonging to the groups IVB, VB and VIB of the periodic table. Due to this structure, it is possible to improve chipping resistance with no deterioration of wear resistance in the coated cemented carbide member to be used, for example, as a cutting tool.

Cemented carbide and coated cemented carbide for cutting tool

Disclosed is a method of preparing a cemented carbide or a cermet alloy by mixing and kneading cemented carbide powder or cermet alloy powder with an organic binder, shaping this mixed powder into a prescribed configuration by an injection molding method and thereafter removing the organic binder from this compact and sintering the same, in order to obtain a dense alloy. Removal of the organic binder is performed in a first step in an inert gas atmosphere as a first removal step, and then continued in a second step in a vacuum of not more than 1 Torr. In the first removal step, the pressure is held in excess of the atmospheric pressure, to prevent the formation of imperfections in the compact. After continuous pores are formed in the interior of the compact, the atmosphere pressure is brought close to a vacuum, thereby facilitating the evaporation of gas from the surface and desorption of gas generated in the interior of the compact.

Method of preparing cemented carbide or cermet alloy

Nitrogen-containing sintered hard alloy

A hard sintered component of a cemented carbide or a stellite alloy having a complex three-dimensional shape and a small hole or the like and the high strength originally provided by the used material for making the component without any secondary working, is formed by injection molding a compact molding die having an inner mold surface roughness R.sub.max of not more than 3 .mu.m. Where a core pin is used the outer surface of the pin has a surface roughness R.sub.max of not more than 3 .mu.m. The compact is then sintered. The hard sintered component is composed of a cemented carbide or a stellite alloy. In such a hard sintered component, the surface of a complex three-dimensional shape such as a disc portion or a thin portion, or the inner surface of a small hole, is defined by a sintered surface which has a surface roughness R.sub.max of not more than 4 .mu.m.

Hard sintered component and method of manufacturing such a component

A watch exterior part is formed of cemented carbide or stellite alloy, and has a three-dimensionally curved as-sintered surface or a small hole with an as-sintered interior peripheral surface, or has a three-dimensionally curved polished surface obtained by polishing an as-sintered surface. The watch exterior part is manufactured by a method in which organic binder is milled into a material powder, and a molded body obtained by injection molding is subjected to a binder removing process and then sintered. By the manufacturing method, a watch exterior part formed of cemented carbide or stellite alloy has a high strength and a complicated configuration such as a three-dimensional curved surface and a small hole, without applying secondary machining operations such as discharge operations.

Watch exterior parts and manufacturing method thereof

A diamond-coated hard material having a diamond- or diamond-like carbon coated layer with a high bonding strength to a substrate is provided. The coated hard material comprising a diamond- and/or diamond-like carbon-coating layer formed on the surface of a hard material, i.e. substrate is characterized in that (I) (1) microscopic roughness is present on the surface of the substrate and (2) protrusive parts thereof are defined by the surface roughness Rmax within a range of 1.0 to 30 .mu.m in a standard length when the standard length is 50 .mu.m in the interface of the diamond- and/or diamond-like carbon coated layer and the substrate, and (II) (1) microscopic roughness is present on the surface of the substrate, (2) at least one protrusive part is present in a standard length when the standard length is 10 .mu.m in the interface of the diamond- and/or diamond-like carbon coated layer and the substrate, (3) the ratio of sum A of the lengths of dent parts to sum B of the lengths of the protrusions is in the range of 0.05.ltoreq.A/B.ltoreq.20 in the standard length in the interface and (4) the protrusive parts are intruded into the diamond-coated layer.

Diamond- or Diamond-like carbon-coated hard materials

Diamond-coated hard material and a process for the production thereof

The invention provides a method for manufacturing sintered parts, which uses as a debinder solvent a substance harmless to the human body and which can enhance the strength of an injection-molded product. Sintered parts suitable for use in industrial production processes and, moreover, extremely high in strength of injection-molded parts, can be produced by the steps of: mixing at least one of a sintering inorganic powders of a metal powder, a metal carbide, a carbon-nitride, a nitride powder and a ceramic powder, with an organic binder composed of an organic substance soluble in an alcohol series solvent and an organic substance insoluble in the same; injection-molding the composition obtained by the preceding process into a metal mold of a sintered part shape; immersing the injection-molded product obtained by the preceding step into an alcohol series solvent to elute and remove part of the organic binder; and heating the product to remove the residual organic binder and sintering the same, wherein the portion soluble in the alcohol series solvent of the organic binder accounts for 30 to 70% of the binder.

Method for manufacturing sintered parts

Diamond-coated hard material, throwaway insert and a process for the

A tool or tool insert is formed of a silicon nitride sintered body which contains silicon nitride as well as a sintering aid and is sintered under a pressurized atmosphere. Freely grown .beta.-Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 including .beta.'-SIALON is removed from its sintering surface by steps other than grinding. A tool of a surface-coated silicon nitride sintered body is formed by coating the surface of a base material, which is formed in a manner similar to the above, with a layer of carbide of Ti or the like having a thickness of 0.1 to 10 .mu.m and/or a layer of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 having a thickness of 0.4 to 10 .mu.m. Tools or inserts formed by a silicon nitride sintered body and the same tools provided with a surface coating have an excellent wear resistance as well as toughness and can be manufactured at a low cost since grinding is avoided.

Method for manufacturing a cutting tool insert made of a silicon nitride

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Toshio Nomura