US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 9 for "Cemented carbide and cutting tool using the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,499, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cemented carbide and cutting tool using the same" was invented by Yasuki Kido (Osaka, Japan), Yoshihiro Kimura (Osaka, Japan) and Anongsack Paseuth (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cemented carbide comprising a plurality of tungsten carbide particles and a binder phase, wherein the cemented carbide comprises a total of 80% by volume or more of the tungsten carbide particles and the binder phase, the cemented carbide comprises 0.1% by volume or more and 20% by volume or less of the binder phase, the cemented carbide comprises at l...