US Patent Issued to TUNGALOY on July 1 for "Cutting insert, indexable rotary cutting tool, and body of the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,808, issued on July 1, was assigned to TUNGALOY Corp. (Fukushima, Japan).

"Cutting insert, indexable rotary cutting tool, and body of the same" was invented by Issei Hori (Iwaki, Japan) and Ryuichi Saji (Iwaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a structure for improving accuracy in attaching a cutting tool to a body and making it possible to increase the number of blades while the cutting tool is mounted on the body. A cutting insert 1 includes: an upper surface 10 that has a shape with a lengthwise direction LD and a widthwise direction SD; a lower surface that is located opposite to the upper surface 10; a peripheral ...