US Patent Issued to MOLDINO Tool Engineering on Dec. 16 for "Coated tool" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,685, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MOLDINO Tool Engineering Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Coated tool" was invented by Tomoya Sasaki (Narita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coated tool of the present invention includes a substrate and a hard coating on the substrate. The hard coating is a nitride or a carbonitride containing 65 atom % or more and 90 atom % or less of Al and 10 atom % or more and 35 atom % or less of Cr with respect to a total amount of metal elements including metalloid elements, and containing 0.50 atom % or less of argon (Ar), and has a face-centered cubic lattice structure. The hard coating shows a maximum intensity...