A method for coating solid diamond materials, to solder or bond coated diamond materials into a metallic surface or a second diamond surface under ambient air. The diamond materials are at least partially coated under a noble gas atmosphere by a vapour depositing process, the coating is performed with at least one carbide-forming chemical element selected from among B, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo and W; some diamond carbon is converted into elemental carbides, which form an elemental carbide layer; and wherein there is a stoichiometric excess of the chemical element in relation to the elemental carbides formed, so an element layer is deposited onto the surface of the elemental carbide layer or a mixed elemental carbide/element layer forms and is deposited on the element layer or mixed elemental carbide/element layer. Also, a machine component, in particular a tool, with a soldered-in solid PCD.

The throwaway insert includes a base and a cutting edge member. The cutting edge member includes a rake face, a flank face, a first connecting face, a second connecting face, and a first ridgeline serving as a cutting edge. The rake face includes a main surface and a first chamfer provided at an edge tip portion of the cutting edge member, the edge tip portion including an extreme tip portion of the cutting edge member. In a plan view from an upper surface of the base, the flank face, the first connecting face, and the second connecting face are located external to the base. The first chamfer is inclined relative to the main surface so as to increase a thickness of the cutting edge member as the first chamfer is closer to the main surface.

A cutting insert based on a non-limiting aspect has a first member and a second member joined to the first member. The second member has an upper surface and a side surface adjacent to the upper surface. The upper surface includes a first side, a second side and a corner. The upper surface has a first convex portion extending toward the corner, and a second convex portion extending from the first convex portion toward the first side. The second convex portion has a first end portion and a second end portion located closer to the corner than the first end portion. A first length from the first end to the first side is less than a second length from the second end portion to the first side in a top view.

The present invention relates to a cutting insert applicable to machining tools and the tool bearing it. The insert (1) has a cutting edge (12) which can be completely sharp or can have a rounding between R=0.030 mm and 0.050 mm, with an angle of impact (123) between 68 and 90 in both cases, and a rounded chip breaker (13), both arranged in a layer of polycrystalline diamond (PCD) (11) at least 1 mm thick covering the entire cutting surface of the insert (1).

The tool includes a body (2) formed by a core (22) coupleable to the machining center, said core externally bearing a perimetral sleeve (21) housing the cutting inserts (1), with the layer of PCD (11) thereof being in direct contact with the sleeve (21).

The invention may include a hydraulic system (23) between the sleeve (21) and the core (22).

To provide a cutting insert that readily fragmentizes chips, and that has excellent durability.

At least a cutting part of a cutting insert is formed of a sintered compact. The sintered compact includes a chip breaker that is a recessed portion in which a partial region of a cutting part upper surface is depressed downward. The chip breaker includes a downward inclined surface, an upward inclined surface, a jutting portion that juts out along a first axial line that passes through a distant end of a cutting edge, and a stepped surface that adjoins the jutting portion in a Y axis direction orthogonal to the first axial line. An upper end of the jutting portion is formed at a height of an upper stage. The stepped surface is formed at a height of an intermediate stage at a part closest to the first axial line.

A cutting insert may include a first surface, a second surface, a third surface and a cutting edge. The first surface may include a corner, a first side, a first inclined surface located along the corner, a second inclined surface located further inside than the first inclined surface, a third inclined surface located along the first side, a fourth inclined surface located further inside the first surface than the third inclined surface, and a protruded part located further inside than the second inclined surface and the fourth inclined surface. An inclination angle of the protruded part may be smaller than an inclination angle of the second inclined surface in a cross section along a bisector of the corner. The inclination angle of the protruded part may be larger than a third inclination angle in a cross section orthogonal to the first side.

A smart cutting tool system for use in precision cutting, comprising a cutting insert (1), an upper cutter arbor (2), a lower cutter arbor (3), a first pressure sensor (4), a second pressure sensor (5), a signal processing module (6), a Bluetooth transmission module (7), and a power supply (8), wherein the cutting insert (1) is fixed to a front end of the upper cutter arbor (2), the cutting insert (1) is provided at its rear end with a microgroove, in which the first pressure sensor (4) and the second pressure sensor (5) are inserted. The cutting tool system solves the problem of mutual coupling of various cutting forces, and has higher sensitivity.

A cutting tool having a cutting edge member which forms at least one corner part, wherein a material for the cutting edge member is selected from either diamond, an ultrahigh-pressure sintered body containing cubic boron nitride or a PVD or CVD coating applied to a surface of the ultrahigh-pressure sintered body. At least part of an intersecting edge between an end surface of the cutting edge member and a peripheral side surface thereof is provided with a cutting edge. A chip breaker comprising a breaker wall surface is formed in the end surface of the cutting edge member. The breaker wall surface has at least one projected surface part which bulges outwardly from the cutting tool. As viewed from the end surface, the recessed surface part is arranged so as to be apart from a virtual plane A which is defined so as to divide the corner part into halves.

A polycrystalline super hard construction has a first region comprising a body of thermally stable polycrystalline super hard material having an exposed surface forming a working surface, and a peripheral side edge, said polycrystalline super hard material comprising a plurality of intergrown grains of super hard material; a second region forming a substrate to the first region, the second region comprising a hard phase and a binder phase; and a third region interposed between the first and second regions, the third region extending across a surface of the second region along an interface. The third region comprises a composite material having a first phase comprising a plurality of non-intergrown grains of super hard material, and a matrix material. The super hard polycrystalline construction further has a fourth region interposed between the second region and the third region, a major proportion of the fourth region comprising one or more components of the binder material of the second region, the fourth region further comprising one or more reaction products between the binder material of the second region and one or more components of the third region.

A method for processing a workpiece by using a diamond tool comprising nano-polycrystalline diamond or vapor-phase synthesized single crystal diamond, the nano-polycrystalline diamond comprising 10 ppm or more and 1000 ppm or less of nitrogen atoms, the vapor-phase synthesized single crystal diamond comprising 1 ppm or more and 100 ppm or less of nitrogen atoms, in processing the workpiece, the diamond tool having a temperature of 400 C. or lower at a contact point of the workpiece and the diamond tool, a spatial region within a distance of 3 cm from the contact point having an oxygen concentration of 20% or less.