US Patent Issued to MOLDINO Tool Engineering on Oct. 6 for "Cutting insert, tool body, and edge-replaceable rotary cutting tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,351, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MOLDINO Tool Engineering Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cutting insert, tool body, and edge-replaceable rotary cutting tool" was invented by Masashi Noshita (Narita, Japan), Sho Uemoto (Narita, Japan), Yoshimitsu Nagashima (Narita, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (Narita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rake surface of a cutting insert according to the present disclosure is formed with a first plane parallel to a seating surface. An outer periphery of the first plane includes a plurality of curved portions having different radii of curvature. On the rake surface, a breaker is provided between a cutting edg...