A milling tool includes a cutting insert, a holder, a fastener and a shim. The fastener forms a first channel cooperatively with the cutting insert. The first channel is configured to direct coolant towards a top side of the insert. In order to better prevent thermal fatigue of the cutting insert under milling conditions, the shim includes a second channel configured to direct coolant towards a clearance side of the cutting insert. A method of using a milling tool and a milling process are also provided.

Provided is a cutting insert and a cutting tool equipped with the cutting tool improving the force to clamp the insert and improving the strength of the insert and the chip dischargeability. The cutting insert includes: an upper surface, which is a first end surface; a lower surface, which is a surface on an opposite side to the upper surface, and is a second end surface having an installing surface for installing a cutting tool; a screw hole which has an axial line penetrating from the upper surface to the lower surface; a peripheral side surface which is formed such that the upper surface and the lower surface are connected; a major cutting edge and an inner cutting edge which are formed in an intersecting region between the upper surface and the peripheral side surface, and an intersecting region between the lower surface and the peripheral side surface, respectively; and a constraining surface which is formed on the peripheral side surface so as to at least partially contact with a body. An angle of the major cutting edge and an angle of the constraining surface are different in a top view viewed from the upper surface, and the angle of the major cutting edge is smaller than the angle of the constraining surface.

A cutting insert has an upper surface having a long side, a short side, a lower surface, a lateral surface and a through hole. The lateral surface has a first lateral surface. The first lateral surface has a first plane that is overlapped with a central axis of the through hole in a front view and is parallel to the central axis, a second plane that is located closer to the short side than the first plane and is parallel to the central axis, a third plane that is located more away from the short side than the first plane and is parallel to the central axis, and a first inclined surface that is located between the second plane and the upper surface and comes closer to the central axis as coming closer to the long side. The first inclined surface is located away from the first plane.

A milling insert for a side and face milling tool includes an upper side defining an upper extension plane, a lower side defining a lower extension plane, and a side surface extending between the upper and the lower sides around a periphery of the insert that includes a main radial clearance surface, two opposite axial clearance surfaces and two corner clearance surfaces. At least one cutting edge is formed in a transition between the upper and the side surfaces, wherein each cutting edge includes a main cutting edge extending above the main radial clearance surface and two corner cutting edges extending above the corner clearance surfaces on opposite sides of the main cutting edge. The main cutting edge slopes downward toward a midpoint of the main cutting edge and the main cutting edge and the main radial clearance surface slope outward from the corner cutting edges toward the midpoint.

The present invention relates to a tool body provided with at least one insert seat. The insert seat comprises a bottom wall surface and a side wall surface. The side wall surface comprises a first side wall surface and a second side wall surface. The first side wall surface comprises at least two surface portions. The first surface portion is a curved surface in a recessed shape, and the second surface portion is a curved surface in a recessed shape having a greater curvature radius than that of the first surface portion or a flat surface. The two surface portions both come into contact with a cutting insert.

A double-sided, trigon cutting insert has three three major cutting edges formed at an intersection between a first planar side surface portion and first and second surfaces, and three minor cutting edges formed at an intersection between a second planar side surface portion and first and second surfaces. A planar rake surface extends radially inward and downward from each major cutting edge, and a rounded rake surface extends radially inward and downward from each minor cutting edge. An insert-receiving pocket of a cutting tool includes a planar bottom support surface, a first planar side support surface, a second planar side support surface, and a third planar side support surface. Each rounded rake surface is formed with a radius, R, that causes only a high point of each minor cutting edge to contact a workpiece during a machining operation.

A cutting insert is suitable for 90° shoulder milling. The cutting insert includes two end surfaces: first and second end surfaces; a peripheral side surface extending therebetween; and a cutting edge formed at an intersecting ridge portion between the first end surface and the peripheral side surface. The cutting edge is formed so that the first end surface functions as a rake face and a part of the peripheral side surface functions as a flank. A side surface portion of the peripheral side surface adjacent to at least a part of the cutting edge includes a first flank portion adjacent to the cutting edge, a second flank portion, a third flank portion, and a fourth flank portion in this order from the first end surface side toward the second end surface side.

A cutting insert (1) has a first end surface (2); a second end surface (3) opposing the first end surface; and a peripheral side surface (4) connecting the first and second end surfaces. A cutting edge (6) extends along an intersecting edge between the first end surface and the peripheral side surface. A land (20) is formed in the first end surface and extends along the cutting edge. At least one groove (18) is formed in the peripheral side surface, each groove forming an opening in the first end surface and separating the cutting edge into a plurality of portions. In a plan view of the first end surface, a portion of the land adjacent to an end area (S) of the groove, has a greater width than a width of a portion of the land which is distant from the groove.

A cutting insert of an embodiment of the present invention includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface connected to each of the upper surface and the lower surface, and an upper cutting edge located at an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface. The lower surface includes a mount part having alternately three first top portions spaced a distance a away from a central axis extending between the upper and lower surfaces and three second top portions spaced a distance b away from the central axis in a bottom view. The mount part further has a concave part including at least the central axis. The second top portions are located closer to the upper surface than the first top portions. A cutting tool with the cutting insert, and a method of manufacturing a machined product by using the cutting tool are also provided.

An object of this disclosure is to provide a cutting insert that is shaped so that a major cutting edge is not damaged easily. In the cutting insert, a major cutting edge, a corner edge, a flat cutting edge and an inner cutting edge are formed on at least an upper surface, a protruding portion protruding outward is formed in a major cutting edge side surface portion of a side surface that corresponds to the major cutting edge, and a first section is formed in which, when viewed from above, the protrusion amount becomes smaller as the protruding portion separates from the corner edge. Furthermore, the cutting insert includes a first clearance angle changing portion in which a clearance angle becomes smaller as a major cutting edge flank portion formed in a major cutting edge side surface portion separates from the corner edge, and a second clearance angle changing portion in which the clearance angle becomes larger as the major cutting edge flank portion separates from the corner edge, wherein the first clearance angle changing portion is preferably positioned closer to the corner edge than the second clearance angle changing portion is, and, of end portions of the first clearance angle changing portion, the value of the clearance angle at a distal end portion from the corner edge is preferably negative.