US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Sept. 1 for "Drill and method for manufacturing machined product" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,212, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Drill and method for manufacturing machined product" was invented by Hiroshi Ogawa (Omihachiman, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drill has a body with an outer peripheral surface, a cutting edge located on a first end, a flank surface located along the cutting edge on a rear side in a rotation direction of a rotation axis, and a flute extending from the cutting edge toward a second end. The cutting edge has a first cutting edge, a second cutting edge extending from the first cutting edge toward the outer peripheral surface, and a third cutting edge extendin...