Honing tool and fine machining method using the honing tool

Abstract

A honing tool (100) for machining an inner face (322) of a bore (320) in a workpiece (300) with the aid of at least one honing operation comprises a tool body (110) that defines a tool axis, and an expandable cutting group (330), attached to the tool body, having a plurality of radially feedable cutting material body carriers (150) that each cover a circumferential angle range and are feedable radially with respect to the tool axis by means of a cutting group feeding system assigned to the cutting group. Each cutting material body carrier carries, on its radial outer side, a plurality of narrow cutting material bodies (140) configured as cutting material strips (140-1, 140-2, 140-3, 440-1, 440-2) that are narrow in the circumferential direction and have a width in the circumferential direction that is small compared with the axial length of the cutting material strips. The cutting material bodies are arranged at a mutual spacing from one another. An elastically resilient intermediate layer (160) is arranged in an intermediate space between a cutting material body (140) and the cutting material body carrier (150) carrying the cutting material body, said intermediate layer (160) filling the intermediate space between the cutting material body and the cutting material body carrier. A preferred field of application is the honing of cylinder surfaces in the production of cylinder blocks or cylinder liners for reciprocating piston engines.

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