Cemented carbide and coated cemented carbide
AssigneeTungaloy Corporation
InventorShinya Ori
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Abstract
A cemented carbide comprising a predetermined hard phase, a predetermined binder phase and a predetermined composite compound phase, wherein: a content ratio of each of the hard phase, the binder phase and the composite compound phase based on total contents of the hard phase, the binder phase and the composite compound phase in the cemented carbide falls within a predetermined range; and the composite compound phase comprises an aggregate containing a small-diameter aggregate which satisfies a predetermined condition and a large-diameter aggregate which satisfies a predetermined condition.
Claims20
A cemented carbide comprising:
- a hard phase containing tungsten carbide as its main component;
- a binder phase containing an element of at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni and Fe as its main component;
- and a composite compound phase, wherein:
- based on total contents of the hard phase, the binder phase and the composite compound phase in the cemented carbide, a content ratio of the hard phase is from 70 volume % or more to 85 volume % or less, a content ratio of the binder phase is from 7.0 volume % or more to 17.0 volume % or less, and a content ratio of the composite compound phase is from 5.0 volume % or more to 15.0 volume % or less;
- the composite compound phase comprises an aggregate;
- the aggregate comprises a small-diameter aggregate having a longest diameter of from 10 μm or more to below 30 μm and a large-diameter aggregate having a longest diameter of 30 μm or more;
- the small-diameter aggregate containing at least one kind from among a carbide, a nitride and a carbonitride of an element of one kind selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr and Mo as its main component;
- the large-diameter aggregate containing at least one kind from among a carbide, a nitride and a carbonitride of an element of one kind selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr and Mo as its main component;
- a cross-sectional structure of a surface region which ranges inward from a surface of the cemented carbide to a depth of 100 μm satisfies a condition represented by formula (1A) below;
- and
- a cross-sectional structure of an inner region further inward than the surface region satisfies a condition represented by formula (2A) below
- 0.5≤SSDA≤4.0 (1A)
- 1.0≤ILDA≤6.0 (2A)
- SSDA refers to a ratio (unit:area %) of a surface region cross-sectional area of the small-diameter aggregate based on a total cross-sectional area of the composite compound phase,
- ILDA refers to a ratio (unit:area %) of an inner region cross-sectional area of the large-diameter aggregate based on a total cross-sectional area of the composite compound phase.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.