Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Yuki Tanaka

Yasuki Kido

Keiichi Tsuda

Yoshihiro Kimura

Atsuhiro Yoneda

Kazuhiro Hirose

Tomoyuki Ishida

A cemented carbide consists of a first hard phase, second hard phases, and a binder phase, wherein the first hard phase is composed of tungsten carbide grains, a D10 and a D90 of grain sizes of the tungsten carbide grains are 0.40 μm or more and 2.00 μm or less respectively, the second hard phases are composed of at least one first compound selected from the group consisting of TaNbC, TaNbN, TaNbCN, TiCN, TiNbC, TiNbN, and TiNbCN, the cemented carbide includes 0.30% to 1.60% by volume of the second hard phases, an average of circularities of the second hard phases is 0.10 to 0.32, a standard deviation of the circularity is 0.094 to 0.130, the binder phase includes 50% by mass or more of cobalt, and the cemented carbide includes 8.0% to 12.0% by volume of the binder phase.

Cemented carbide and cutting tool

A cemented carbide consisting of a first hard phase, second hard phases, and a binder phase, wherein the first hard phase is composed of tungsten carbide grains, a D10 and a D90 of grain sizes of the tungsten carbide grains are 0.40 μm and 2.00 μm respectively, the second hard phases are composed of at least one first compound selected from the group consisting of TaNbC, TaNbN, TaNbCN, TiCN, TiNbC, TiNbN, and TiNbCN, the cemented carbide includes 0.30% to 1.60% by volume of the second hard phases, a median of a distance between centroids of two of the second hard phases that are closest is 4 to 15 μm, a coefficient of variation of the distance between centroids is 1.20 to 1.90, the binder phase includes 50% by mass or more of cobalt, and the cemented carbide includes 8.0 to 14.0% by volume of the binder phase.

A cemented carbide consisting of a first hard phase, second hard phases, and a binder phase, wherein the first hard phase is composed of tungsten carbide grains, a D10 and a D90 of grain sizes of the tungsten carbide grains are 0.40 sm or more and 2.00 sm or less respectively, the second hard phases are composed of at least one first compound selected from the group consisting of TaNbC, TaNbN, TaNbCN, TiCN, TiNbC, TiNbN, and TiNbCN, the cemented carbide includes 0.30 to 1.60% by volume of the second hard phases, a median of areas of the second hard phases is 0.90 to 1.20 μm, a coefficient of variation of the areas of the second hard phases is 0.50 to 1.20, the binder phase includes 50% by mass or more of cobalt, and the cemented carbide includes 8.0 to 12.0% by volume of the binder phase.

A cemented carbide is composed of a first hard phase, a second hard phase, and a binder phase, wherein the first hard phase is composed of tungsten carbide particles and having a particle diameter D10 of 0.30 μm to 0.60 μm, a particle diameter D90 of 0.90 μm to 1.40 μm, the second hard phase contains at least one first compound selected from the group consisting of TiNbC, TiNbN, and TiNbCN, and having an average particle diameter of 0.03 μm to 0.50 μm, a content of the binder phase in the cemented carbide is 8.0 vol % to 16.0 vol %, an average particle diameter of the binder phase is 0.15 μm to 0.45, a particle diameter D95 of the binder phase is 1.5 μm or less, and a degree of dispersion of the binder phase is 0.15 to 0.25.

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