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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2012
Tungaloy Corporation, Iwaki-shi, Fukushima, JP;
Yusuke Hirano, Iwaki, JP;
Tungaloy Corporation, Iwaki-Shi, Fukushima, JP;
Abstract
A coated cutting tool has a base material of a WC-based cemented carbide and a film formed on the surface of the base material by a chemical vapor deposition method. The coated cutting tool has a rake face, a flank face and a cutting edge ridgeline part positioned between the rake face and the flank face being provided, wherein a total film thickness of the entire film is 3 to 20 μm in an average film thickness, and one or more oblique cracks where an extension angle of the crack to the surface of the film is 45° or less are present at the rake face within 300 μm from the cutting edge ridgeline part.