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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Takashi Okamura, Aichi, JP;
Satoshi Iio, Gifu, JP;
NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
A cutting tool coated with diamond in which diamond is coated as a film on a substrate having a step 15 to 500 &mgr;m in height in the vicinity of a cutting edge on the rake surface and/or the flank surface. Only the diamond film in the vicinity of the cutting edge can be polished first, without polishing the film of the diamond formed centrally of the rake surface and/or the flank surface. This enables the maximum effect (sharpening of the cutting edge and prevention of welding formation at cutting edge) to be realized with the necessary minimum polishing (with a decreased polishing removal), without setting special conditions and which is suited as a finishing tool.