A new technique for making cube corner elements that involves end milling is used in the fabrication of cube corner elements having non-orthogonal dihedral angles and dihedral angle errors, and arrays of such cube corner elements. A given optical face of a cube corner element may be a compound face with two constituent faces. In some cases, the constituent faces may be parallel and coplanar such that a given dihedral angle error pertains to the entire optical face, while in other cases, the two constituent faces may not be parallel, and may be associated with different dihedral angle errors.

A beveling cutter can include a body with a shaft hole formed through the center. The cutter can also include a plurality of 10 cutter blades arranged at predetermined distances on the circumferential surface of the body, each having a radial primary blade with a radial primary relief angle (a) ranging from about 5 to about 15 degrees and a radial secondary blade with a radial secondary relief angle (b) ranging from about 16 to about 30 degrees. The cutter can also include discharge grooves formed longitudinally between the cutter blades to discharge chips produced in beveling, and a key groove formed at a portion inside the body, in which the helix angle (d) of the cutter blades ranges from about 5 to about 45 degrees. With the beveling cutter, it is possible to smoothly discharge chips produced in beveling and to prevent damage to the cutter blades.

Disclosed is an assembling and centering structure for a processing tool, the structure having a clamping handle (10), a processing head (20), and a fastening member (30) for connecting and fixing the clamping handle (10) and the processing head (20). An end face accommodation groove (100) of the clamping handle (10) is formed with a concave part (11) and a centering hole (12). The processing head (20) is formed with a convex part (211) and a centering post (222), the convex part (211) matches the concave part (11), and the centering post (222) matches the centering hole (12). Thus, it can be ensured that after assembly, the central axis of rotation of the clamping handle (10) is in a straight line with the central axis of rotation of the processing head (20).

A rotary cutting tool includes a replaceable cutting head and a tool holder. The replaceable cutting head includes a forward cutting portion and a rearward mounting portion. The mounting portion includes a male coupling member that includes a straight external thread. The tool holder includes a female coupling member that includes a conical internal thread. When the rotary cutting tool is in a locked position, the external thread is threadingly engaged with the internal thread.

Disclosed is an assembling and centering structure for a processing tool, the structure having a clamping handle (10), a processing head (20), and a fastening member (30) for connecting and fixing the clamping handle (10) and the processing head (20). An end face accommodation groove (100) of the clamping handle (10) is formed with a concave part (11) and a centering hole (12). The processing head (20) is formed with a convex part (211) and a centering post (222), the convex part (211) matches the concave part (11), and the centering post (222) matches the centering hole (12). Thus, it can be ensured that after assembly, the central axis of rotation of the clamping handle (10) is in a straight line with the central axis of rotation of the processing head (20).

A milling tool (10) comprises a shank section (12) and a head (14), the head being provided on a tip end side of the shank section and having cutting edges. The head (14) includes an expanding diameter section (14a) and a contracting diameter section (14b), the expanding diameter section gradually increasing in diameter as it spans toward the tip end from a base end portion adjoining the shank section (12), and the contracting diameter section gradually decreasing in diameter as it spans toward the tip end from a maximum diameter section (14c). At least one cutting edge (20, 22) is provided on each of the expanding diameter section (14a) and the contracting diameter section (14b). At least one tip-end cutting edge (32) that extends from the contracting diameter section to a center axis of the milling tool is provided on a tip end portion of the head.

A method is provided for the material-removing machining of fillets on a workpiece by means of a tool, more particularly a milling tool, which is guided over a fillet at a contact point. The invention is characterized in that the fillet is machined by means of a tool comprising a conical-convex cutting edge on a flank of the tool, wherein the tool, with the contact point on the conical-convex cutting edge, moves along at least one contact path running in the longitudinal direction of the fillet and the tool is inclined sideways in relation to the at least one contact path on the fillet such that a substantially sickle-shaped material engagement is formed in front of the contact point in the movement direction of the tool.

In an example, a method for milling a sink is disclosed. The method includes receiving a metal sheet, positioning the metal sheet in a receiving assembly for a milling machine, and scoring the metal sheet via a cutter of the milling machine. The metal sheet is scored along an axis corresponding to a bend of the sink. The method also includes manipulating the metal sheet to form the sink.

A variable-step-distance micro-milling repair cutter path generating method for damage points on a surface of an optical crystal related to a field of optical material and optical element surface repair and includes steps of establishing a mathematical model of a repair profile; determining discrete contact points between a cutter and the repair profile to obtain a cutter contact control point set by a GPR path generating method to control a movement trend of a pseudo-random path; interpolating the cutter position control point set into a spatial curve by a NURBS modeling method; creating a UG curve in a UG software according to the mathematical model, and using the UG curve as the repair path to perform a machining process simulation. The method has good elimination effects on cutter marks with constant period and improves the ability of the KDP crystal to resist strong laser damage.

A new technique for making cube corner elements that involves end milling is used in the fabrication of cube corner elements having non-orthogonal dihedral angles and dihedral angle errors, and arrays of such cube corner elements. A given optical face of a cube corner element may be a compound face with two constituent faces. In some cases, the constituent faces may be parallel and coplanar such that a given dihedral angle error pertains to the entire optical face, while in other cases, the two constituent faces may not be parallel, and may be associated with different dihedral angle errors.