US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Sept. 8 for "Cutting insert, rotary tool, and method for manufacturing machined product" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,464, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Cutting insert, rotary tool, and method for manufacturing machined product" was invented by Kouji Kawashima (Kusatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary tool according to an aspect includes a body, a flank face positioned at a side of a tip end of the body, a flute extending from the flank face toward a rear end of the body, and a ridge line positioned at an intersection of the flank face and the flute. The ridge line includes a recessed portion recessed toward the rear end of the body, an inner edge extending from the recessed portion toward the tip en...