End mill

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11458551-B2
Application number	US-201716464881-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 30, 2017
Priority date	Dec 26, 2016
Publication date	Oct 4, 2022
Grant date	Oct 4, 2022

Abstract

The present invention provides an end mill including: a shaft-shaped end mill main body; a chip discharge groove extending from a leading end to a trailing end in an axial direction of the end mill main body; a bottom blade which is provided at a leading end portion in the axial direction of the end mill main body and has a spherical shape in which a rotation locus around the axis has a center on the axis; and an outer peripheral blade which is provided along the chip discharge groove, and in which a rotation locus around the axis is convex outward. A curvature radius of the rotation locus of the outer peripheral blade is larger than a curvature radius of the rotation locus of the bottom blade. A twist angle of the outer peripheral blade is 20° or more.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An end mill comprising:
an end mill main body;
four chip discharge grooves extending from a leading end to a trailing end in an axial direction of the end mill main body;
four bottom blades, each of which has a rake surface and a flank surface, and are provided at a leading end portion in the axial direction of the end mill main body and have spherical shapes in which rotation loci around an axis have centers on the axis;
four gashes which are formed at the leading end portion in the axial direction of the end mill main body and each of which is adjacent to one of the four bottom blades; and
four outer peripheral blades each of which has a rake surface and a flank surface, and each of which is provided along each of the chip discharge grooves, and in which rotation loci around the axis are convex outward,
wherein
the end mill has a shape in which outer diameters of the outer peripheral blades decrease toward the leading end portion in the axial direction,
a curvature radius of the rotation locus of each of the outer peripheral blades is larger than a curvature radius of the rotation locus of each of the bottom blades,
the curvature radius of the rotation locus of each of the outer peripheral blades is 20 times or more and 30 times or less than the curvature radius of the rotation locus of each of the bottom blades,
the curvature radius of the rotation locus of each of the bottom blades is 0.5 mm to 3 mm,
a twist angle of each of the outer peripheral blades is 40° or more and 50° or less,
a rake angle in a radial direction of each of the outer peripheral blades in a cross section orthogonal to the axis is −10° or more and −5° or less,
a web thickness of each of the outer peripheral blades is 75% or more and 85% or less of an outer diameter of each of the outer peripheral blades, and
the four bottom blades include two first bottom blades and two second bottom blades,
the two first bottom blades and the two second bottom blades have different blade lengths along the radial direction from each other, and
the gash adjacent to one of the two first bottom blades and the gash adjacent to one of the two second bottom blades form a ridgeline being a boundary where the two gashes meet, and
the ridgeline extends along the radial direction between one of the two first bottom blades and one of the two second bottom blades at the leading end portion of the end mill main body.

2. The end mill according to claim 1 , wherein a portion of the end mill with the four outer peripheral blades and the four bottom blades is oval shaped.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Hitachi Tool Eng Ltd
• Moldino Tool Engineering Ltd

Inventors

• SAI Takafumi
• Baba Makoto
• Tokuyama Akira

Classifications

• B23C5/10 Primary

  Shank-type cutters, i.e. with an integral shaft · CPC title

• B23C5/1009 Primary

  Ball nose end mills · CPC title

• B23C2210/0435

  radial rake angle · CPC title

• B23C2210/40

  Flutes, i.e. chip conveying grooves · CPC title

• B23C5/14

  essentially comprising curves {(B23C5/1009 takes precedence)} · CPC title