Surface coated cemented carbide cutting tool having hard coating layer exhibiting excellent wear resistance in high speed machining
US7150925B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 28, 2002 |
| Grant date | Dec 19, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 28, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T428/265
- WIPO fieldSurface technology, coating
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
The invention provides a coated cutting tool made of cemented carbide in which a hard coating layer has excellent wear resistance in high-speed cutting operation, wherein (a) a crystal orientation hysteresis layer which consists of a carbonitride compound layer and (b) a hard coating layer which consists of a layer of nitride compound and has a well defined crystal orientation and/or degree of crystallinity are formed on the surface of a cemented carbide substrate, preferably on the surface of a tungsten carbide based cemented carbide or titanium carbonitride based cermet by physical vapor deposition, wherein the crystal orientation hysteresis layer is deposited between the surface of a cemented carbide substrate and the hard coating layer. In one specific example, (a1) the carbonitride compound layer has an average thickness of 0.05 to 0.5 μm and is preferably a Ti—Al carbonitride compound layer expressed by the composition formula as (Ti1−XAlX)(N1−YCY), wherein X ranges from 0.05 to 0.20 and Y ranges from 0.01 to 0.15 by atomic ratio and (b1) the nitride compound layer has an average thickness of 2 to 15 μm and is preferably a Ti—Al nitride compound layer expressed by the composi…
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