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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2003
Zbigniew Zurecki, Macungie, PA (US);
Ranajit Ghosh, Macungie, PA (US);
John Herbert Frey, Allentown, PA (US);
James Bryan Taylor, Victor, NY (US);
Zbigniew Zurecki, Macungie, PA (US);
Ranajit Ghosh, Macungie, PA (US);
John Herbert Frey, Allentown, PA (US);
James Bryan Taylor, Victor, NY (US);
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and a method are disclosed for reducing a thickness of a thermomechanically-affected layer on an as-machined surface of a hard metal workpiece being machined by a hard cutting tool exerting a thermomechanical load on a surface of the workpiece. The method involves reducing the thermomechanical load on the surface of the workpiece, and the apparatus includes a means for reducing the thermomechanical load on the surface of the workpiece.