End mill and method of manufacturing end mill
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsJun ETO, Hirokazu UNNO, Toshiyuki TANAKA
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Abstract
The purpose of the present invention is to precisely process a surface-shaped portion having a fillet. An end mill includes a bottom blade having a protruding curved surface and formed in an arc shape, and a radius blade provided in a corner portion and formed in an arc shape, wherein the radius of the arc portion of the radius blade matches the radius of the arc portion of a fillet-shaped portion of a shape to be processed, and the radius of the arc portion of the bottom blade is equal to or smaller than the minimum radius of the arc portion of a surface-shaped portion adjacent to the fillet-shaped portion.
Claims5
A method for producing an end mill for rotating around a rotation axis, the end mill including a bottom edge having a center on the rotation axis and formed in an arc shape in cross section taken along the rotation axis of the end mill, and a radial edge provided at an outer peripheral side corner of the bottom edge relative to the rotation axis and formed in an arc shape in cross section taken along the rotation axis of the end mill, the method comprising:
- performing setting such that a radius of an arc portion of the radial edge coincides with a radius of an arc portion of a fillet-shaped portion of a concave shape to be processed in a workpiece;
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- performing setting such that a radius of an arc portion of the bottom edge is equal to or less than a minimum radius of an arc portion of a planar portion adjacent to the fillet-shaped portion of the concave shape to be processed in the workpiece.
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