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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1986
Hiroshi Fujii, Aichi, JP;
Akio Hara, Itami, JP;
Mitsunori Kobayashi, Itami, JP;
Yoshikatsu Mori, Itami, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A process for producing a cutting tool having a rake face and flank face which intersect to form a cutting edge, which cutting tool comprises a substrate consisting of a sintered hard metal and a coating film provided thereon consisting of a material with a higher hardness than the substrate, which method involves subjecting the substrate to a coating treatment and honing treatment in such a manner that the coating film near the cutting edge has such a thickness that the thickness continuously increases in directions away from the cutting edge along both the rake face and the flank face from a minimum value, including zero, at the cutting edge, such that the thickness of the coating at the rake face reaches a maximum thickness at a first distance from the cutting edge and the thickness at the flank face reaches a maximum thickness at a second distance from the cutting edge, wherein the first distance is greater than the second distance.