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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Enshu Limited, Shizuoka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B24B 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B24B 1/00 ;
Abstract
A method of cutting metal materials and non-metal materials in a non-combustible gas atmosphere, the method including forming a non-combustible gas atmosphere, providing the non-combustible gas atmosphere to at least one of a cutting part of a machine tool and an area adjacent to the cutting part, and machining the metal materials and the non-metal materials using the cutting part, and where the non-combustible gas includes one of nitrogen gas and carbon dioxide gas, and where the non-combustible gas occupies a proportion of at least 90% of the non-combustible gas atmosphere.