Small-diameter drill and small-diameter drill manufacturing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020384551-A1
Application number	US-201816644662-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 7, 2018
Priority date	Sep 14, 2017
Publication date	Dec 10, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

A small-diameter drill in which is a double margin having a diameter of 2 mm or less and a ratio of a margin length to a diameter of 3 or more, in which the margin length L in an axial direction from an outer peripheral end of a cutting edge to the rear ends of first and second margin parts and a ratio L/D to a diameter D are 3 or more, in which at least a surface of a chip discharge groove is provided with a hard coating made of nitride, in which a surface of the hard coating in the chip discharge groove has skewness (Ssk) defined in ISO25178 of less than 0, and in which the number of droplets having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 μm or more is 5 or less per 100 μm 2 in cross-section observation of the hard coating.

First claim

1 . A small-diameter drill in which two chip discharge grooves opening to tip flank faces of a drill body that rotates around the axis and extending to a rear end side are formed symmetrically with respect to an axis at an outer periphery of a tip part of the drill body, cutting edges are formed at intersecting ridgeline parts between wall faces of the chip discharge grooves that face a drill rotation direction and the tip flank faces, a first margin part adjacent to a side of the chip discharge groove opposite to the drill rotation direction, and a second margin part adjacent to a side of the chip discharge groove in the drill rotation direction are formed on a land part between the chip discharge grooves, and a diameter D of the cutting edge is 2 mm or less,
wherein a ratio L/D of a margin length L in a direction of the axis from an outer peripheral end of the cutting edge to a rear end of each of the first and second margin parts, and the diameter D is 3 or more, wherein a hard coating is provided on a surface of the drill body, wherein the hard coating contains 0.5 atomic % or less of Ar with respect to the total amount of the metallic element and the nonmetallic element, wherein a surface of the hard coating in the chip discharge groove has skewness (Ssk) defined in ISO25178 of less than 0, wherein the number of droplets having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 μm or more is 5 or less per 100 μm 2 in cross-section observation of the hard coating, and wherein the droplets having an equivalent circle diameter of 3.0 μm or more are not included.

2 . The small-diameter drill according to claim 1 ,
wherein a thinning part is formed at an inner periphery of a tip part of the chip discharge groove, wherein the thinning part has a thinning face that faces a side opposite to the drill rotation direction, and wherein the second margin part is formed from the tip flank face to the thinning face along a circumferential direction.

3 . A manufacturing method of a small-diameter drill in which a diameter D of a cutting edge is 2 mm or less, the method comprising:
a step of forming a hard coating by a sputtering method; and a step of polishing a surface of the hard coating in a chip discharge groove to have skewness (Ssk) defined by ISO25178 of less than 0 by ejecting an abrasive against the surface of the hard coating, wherein the hard coating contains 0.5 atomic % or less of Ar with respect to the total amount of the metallic element and the nonmetallic element, wherein the number of droplets having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 μm or more is 5 or less per 100 μm2 in cross-section observation of the hard coating, and wherein the droplets having an equivalent circle diameter of 3.0 μm or more are not included.

4 . The manufacturing method of the small-diameter drill in according to claim 3 ,
wherein a maximum power density of a power pulse applied to a target is 1.0 kW/cm 2 or more in the sputtering method.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Hitachi Tool Eng Ltd

Inventors

• Yoshioka Shogo
• Sasaki Tomoya

Classifications

• B23B51/011

  Micro drills · CPC title

• C23C30/005

  on hard metal substrates · CPC title

• C23C28/044

  coatings specially adapted for cutting tools or wear applications · CPC title

• C23C14/18

  on other inorganic substrates · CPC title

• B23B51/00 Primary

  Tools for drilling machines · CPC title