US Patent Issued to AB Sandvik Coromant on Sept. 23 for "Method of treating a cutting tool, and a cutting tool" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,340, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AB Sandvik Coromant (Sandviken, Sweden).

"Method of treating a cutting tool, and a cutting tool" was invented by Andreas Blomqvist (Uppsala, Sweden), Erik Holmstrom (Huddinge, Sweden) and Jose Luis Garcia (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of treating a cutting tool of a cemented carbide or cermet substrate, wherein the cutting tool is subjected to shot peening at a temperature of or above 100deg C. The cutting tool typically has a rake face, a flank face and a cutting edge extending therebetween. The shot peening is performed at least on the ...