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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2014
Element Six Gmbh, London, GB;
Igor Yuri Konyashin, Burghaun, DE;
Sebastian Ralf Hlawatschek, Burghaun, DE;
Bernd Heinrich Ries, Burghaun, DE;
Frank Friedrich Lachmann, Burghaun, DE;
ELEMENT SIX GMBH, , DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to hard-metal body comprising a hard-metal, the hard-metal comprising tungsten carbide grains and metal binder comprising cobalt having a concentration of tungsten dissolved therein, the body comprising a surface region adjacent a surface and a core region remote from the surface, the surface region and the core region being contiguous with each other; the mean binder fraction of the core region being greater than that of the surface region; the mean carbon concentration within the binder being higher in the surface region than in the core region; to tools comprising same and methods of making same.