US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on July 21 for "Rotary tool and method for manufacturing machined product" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,066, issued on July 21, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Rotary tool and method for manufacturing machined product" was invented by Suguru Onchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The short flank face includes a second flank face that is adjacent to the short cutting edge rearward of a rotation axis in a rotation direction and is flat and a third flank face that is adjacent to the second flank face rearward of the rotation axis in the rotation direction and is flat. In front view of the body from the front end, a maximum value of a width of the second flank face in the direction orthogonal to the short cutting...