Kennametal Inc.

Oerlikon Trading Ltd.

Oerlikon Surface Solutions Ag, Trubbach

Wangyang Ni

Yixiong Liu

Ronald Penich

Mark S Greenfield

Leonid Boris Sharivker

Sergei Vladimir Boulakhov

Vladimir David Volokh

Zhigang Ban

Dennis T Quinto

Charles Erik Bauer

Michael Frank Beblo

Shay Zeidner

Fengting Xu

Vladimir Galipko

Jason W Chandler

Qian Ding

Volker-Hermann Derflinger

Ronald M Penich

A coated wear-resistant member, as well as a method for making the same, includes a substrate and a coating scheme. The coating scheme has a region of alternating coating sublayers. One coating sublayer is TiAlSiN wherein 40 atomic percent&#x2266;x&#x2266;80 atomic percent; 15 atomic percent&#x2266;y&#x2266;55 atomic percent; 4 atomic percent&#x2266;100&#x2212;x&#x2212;y&#x2266;15 atomic percent. The other coating sublayer is TiAlN wherein 45 atomic percent&#x2266;p&#x2266;100 atomic percent. The method for making a coated wear-resistant member includes the steps of providing the substrate, and depositing the region of alternating coating sublayers.

Multilayer coated wear-resistant member and method for making the same

A wear resistant multilayer nitride hard coating for substrates. The hard coating includes a first layer of titanium aluminum nitride and a second layer comprising a plurality of sublayer groups. Each sublayer group includes a first sublayer of titanium silicon nitride and a second sublayer of titanium aluminum nitride. The composition of the titanium aluminum nitride, both in the first layer and in the sublayer groups, is (TiAl)N, wherein 0.4&#x2266;x&#x2266;0.6. The composition of the titanium silicon nitride sublayers is (TiSi)N, wherein 0.85&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.98, and all of the silicon is in solid solution in the titanium silicon nitride such that no silicon phase or silicon nitride phase exists in this sublayer. The combined amount of aluminum and silicon present in the sublayer groups being narrowly controlled such that the sum of x and y is in the range of 1.38 to 1.46.

Multilayer nitride hard coatings

A coated article has a substrate and a coating scheme, which has a PVD coating region. The PVD coating region contains aluminum, yttrium, nitrogen and at least one element selected from the group of titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten and silicon. The sum of the aluminum and yttrium contents is between about 3 atomic percent and about 55 atomic percent of the sum of aluminum, yttrium and the other elements. The yttrium content is between about 0.5 atomic percent and about 5 atomic percent of the sum of aluminum, yttrium and the other elements. There is also a method of making the coated article that includes steps of providing the substrate and depositing the above coating scheme with the PVD coating region.

Coated article having yttrium-containing coatings applied by physical vapor deposition and method for making the same

Coated cutting tools are disclosed which have a hard coating that includes at least one aluminum titanium nitride layer having a single phase structure of B1 cubic phase and a composition of (AlTi)N, where x is in the range of about 0.46 to about 0.52 moles. The hard coatings also have a residual stress in the range of from about &#x2212;0.4 to about &#x2212;3 GPa as measured by the XRD Sin&#x3a8; method, and a crystallographic orientation characterized by an x-ray diffraction (200) to (111) peak intensity ratio in the range of about 1 to about 14. Preferably the aluminum titanium nitride layer has an average crystallite size in the range of about 15 to about 50 nanometers. Methods of making such coated cutting tools are also disclosed.

Cubic aluminum titanium nitride coating and method of making same

Hard coatings and methods of making the hard coatings comprising aluminum titanium nitride which are usable on cutting tools are disclosed. The coatings include at least one aluminum titanium nitride layer having between about 0 and about 15 weight percent hexagonal phase and a composition of (AlTi)N, where x is in the range of about 0.53 to about 0.58 moles.

Aluminum titanium nitride coating and method of making same

A center or non-center cutting end mill for orbital drilling includes a shank having a shank diameter; a neck having a neck diameter; a cutting head having a cutting diameter; a corner radius; a dish angle; and a longitudinal axis, the cutting head including a forward cutting end having a convexly curved section located between the longitudinal axis and the corner radius, wherein the convexly curved section causes material removed from a workpiece to flow radially outward from an initial contact area toward the corner radius, thereby minimizing the accumulation of material in a central portion of the forward cutting end.

End mill for orbital drilling

A coated article that includes a substrate and a wear-resistant coating scheme. The coated article may be a cutting insert shown to improve performance in chip-forming material removal operations or a wear-resistant component used in chipless forming operations. The wear-resistant coating scheme has an underlayer and top layer containing aluminum, chromium, and nitrogen. The coating scheme also includes a mediate multi-periodicity nanolayer coating scheme containing titanium, aluminum, chromium and nitrogen. The mediate multi-periodicity nanolayer coating scheme includes a plurality of sets of alternating layer arrangements. Each one of the alternating layer arrangements has a base layer comprising titanium, aluminum and nitrogen and a nanolayer region having a plurality of sets of alternating nanolayers. Each set of alternating nanolayers has one nanolayer having aluminum, chromium, titanium and nitrogen and another nanolayer having aluminum, chromium, titanium and nitrogen. The base layer has a base layer thickness and the nanolayer region has a nanolayer region thickness. The base layer thickness is smaller than the nanolayer region thickness.

Coated article with nanolayered coating scheme

A center or non-center cutting end mill for orbital drilling of fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) materials includes a shank, a neck, a cutting head and two or more flutes. The end mill has a tool geometry with the following features: a dish angle between about 2 degrees to about 6 degrees; a helix angle between about 5 degrees to about 18 degrees; an end teeth radial rake angle between about 0 degrees and about 15 degrees; a peripheral teeth radial rake angle between about 8 degrees and about 16 degrees; a gashing axial rake angle between about 3 degrees to about 10 degrees; and a primary clearance angle between about 10 degrees to about 18 degrees. The end mill is made from a tungsten carbide substrate with cemented cobalt in a range between about 3 to 10 wt. % and a diamond coating having a thickness in a range between about 8 to 20 &#x3bc;m.

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