End mill
AssigneeKYOCERA Corporation
InventorMasahiko KURODA
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Abstract
An end mill includes end cutting edges located at a front end side of a cutting edge portion of a body including rotation axis, peripheral cutting edges, and helically extending flutes. Each of the peripheral cutting edges and the flutes are alternately located from the front end side to a rear end side, and a first distance between a deepest position of the flute and the rotation axis is equal among the respective flutes in a cross section taken along the rotation axis. The flute includes a first region located at a side of the peripheral cutting edge and includes the deepest position, a second region located at a side of a heel, and a boundary. A second distance from the rotation axis to the boundary located at the rear end side is larger than the second distance located at the front end side.
Claims6
An end mill comprising:
- a body including a rotation axis and comprising;
- a cutting edge portion located at a front end side of the body;
- a shank portion located at a rear end side of the body;
- two or more end cutting edges located at the front end side of the cutting edge portion;
- peripheral cutting edges extending from the end cutting edges-toward the shank portion;
- and
- flutes each located along the peripheral cutting edges and helically extending from the front end side of the cutting edge portion toward the shank portion, wherein
- each of the peripheral cutting edges and each of the flutes are alternately located from the front end side to a rear end side of the cutting edge portion, and a distance between a deepest position of the flute and the rotation axis is set equal among the respective flutes in a cross section taken along the rotation axis,
- the flute comprises a first region and located at a side of the peripheral cutting edge and including the deepest position, a second region and located at a side of a heel opposite to the peripheral cutting edge, and a boundary having a convex shape and located between the first region and the second region;
- and
- a distance from the rotation axis to the boundary located at the rear end side of the cutting edge portion is larger than a distance from the rotation axis to the boundary located at the front end side of the cutting edge portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.