US Patent Issued to TUNGALOY on June 2 for "Cutting tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,153, issued on June 2, was assigned to TUNGALOY Corp. (Fukushima, Japan).

"Cutting tool" was invented by Ryou Sasaki (Iwaki, Japan) and Ryuichi Saji (Iwaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting tool with sufficient stiffness of a body is provided.A cutting tool 10 includes a body 100 in which a discharge groove 120 for guiding and discharging chips is formed, and a cutting insert 200 fastened and fixed on a distal end side of the body 100. The cutting insert 200 includes a first surface 210 through which a through-hole 230 is opened, and a major cutting edge 231 formed so as to extend straight at an end part of the first sur...