US Patent Issued to TUNGALOY on Oct. 20 for "Cutting insert, body, and cutting tool" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,607, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TUNGALOY Corp. (Fukushima, Japan).

"Cutting insert, body, and cutting tool" was invented by Atsushi Ogawa (Iwaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a cutting insert, a body, and a cutting tool that can limit thickness while allowing a total of four cutting edges to be used by switching. A cutting insert 30 to be mounted on a body 20 of a cutting tool 10 includes: a first cutting face 411 hexagonal in shape by being made up of one end face 110 of a pair of end faces 110 and 120 opposed to each other; a pair of first cutting edges 311 and 312 formed along a pair of sides...