US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Materials on Jan. 20 for "CBN sintered body" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,127, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Mitsubishi Materials Corp. (Tokyo).

"CBN sintered body" was invented by Masahiro Yano (Naka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cBN sintered compact comprises: cubic boron nitride grains and a binder phase, wherein 1) the binder phase comprises a Ti-Al alloy containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of Si, Mg, and Zn, and further comprises Ti2CN and TiB2; 2) the ratio ITi2CN/ITi-Al in XRD is 2.0 or more and 30.0 or less where ITi2CN represents the peak intensity of Ti2CN appearing at 2Theta angle from 41.9deg to 42.2deg and ITi-Al represents the peak intensity of th...