US Patent Issued to TUNGALOY on Sept. 30 for "Cutting insert and cutting tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,582, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TUNGALOY Corp. (Fukushima, Japan).

"Cutting insert and cutting tool" was invented by Yuma Kondou (Iwaki, Japan), Jun Otsuka (Iwaki, Japan) and Katsura Mochizuki (Iwaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a cutting insert such that a tool body can sufficiently hold the cutting insert even if one of cutting parts is broken. The cutting insert includes two side surfaces opposed to each other, a fixing hole passing through the centers of the two side surfaces, and an outer circumferential surface that is disposed between the outer circumferential edges of the two side surfaces and ar...