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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8187698 | Coated cutting tool for fine to medium-rough turning of stainless steels The present invention relates to a cutting tool insert comprising a cemented carbide body and a coating particularly useful in fine to medium-rough turning of stainless-steels. The cemented carbide body consists of a cemented carbide with a composition of 5.0-9.0 wt... | 05/29/2012 |
| RE43387 | Anchored oxide coatings on hard metal cutting tools A cutting tool insert comprises a hard metal substrate having at least two wear-resistant coatings including an exterior ceramic coating and a coating under the ceramic coating being a metal carbonitride having a nitrogen to carbon-plus-nitrogen atomic ratio between... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173248 | PVD coated substrate A PVD coating is disclosed, and in particular a nanoscale multilayer superlattice PVD coating comprising high hardness, a low friction coefficient and increased chemical inertness. The multilayer coating comprises a repeating bilayer represented by (VxMe | 05/08/2012 |
| 8153241 | Wide-angle highly reflective mirrors at 193NM The invention is directed to highly reflective optical elements having an amorphous MgAl2O4−SiO2 coating with fluoride enhancements inserted and sealed by dense smooth SiO2 layers, and to a method for preparing such elem... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8137795 | Indexable insert An indexable insert (1) includes a substrate (8) and a coating layer formed on the substrate. The coating layer includes an inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer is constituted by a layer containing at least one element selected from the grou... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8124222 | Coated cutting tool and method of making a coated cutting tool The invention relates to a coated cutting tool comprising a substrate provided with a coating comprising a metallic interlayer placed in-between at least two non-metallic, functional layers or layer systems where the metallic interlayer comprises at least 60 at % me... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119227 | Coated cutting tool A cutting tool includes a substrate on which at least on the functioning parts of the surface thereof a thin, adherent, hard and wear resistant coating is applied, wherein the coating includes a laminated multilayer of alternating PVD or PECVD metal oxide layers, Me... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119226 | Coated cutting tool A cutting tool includes a substrate on which at least on the functioning parts of the surface thereof a thin, adherent, hard and wear resistant coating is applied, wherein the coating includes a laminated multilayer of alternating PVD or PECVD metal oxide layers, Me... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8110282 | Laminated film and molded body An object of the present invention is to provide a film having a high brightness and a natural metal-effect, and also having excellent formability, causing no delamination and maintaining the metal-effect after forming. Another object is to provide a molded body hav... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8097332 | Indexable cutting insert An indexable cutting insert (1) includes a base (8) and a coating layer, wherein the coating layer includes an inner sublayer and an outer sublayer, each of subsublayer constituting the inner sublayer is composed of a compound containing at least one e... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8080312 | CVD coating scheme including alumina and/or titanium-containing materials and method of making the same A coated body that includes a substrate and a coating scheme on the substrate. The coating scheme includes a CVD titanium carbonitride coating layer containing titanium carbonitride grains that are of a pre-selected grain size. The coating scheme further includes a ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8053063 | Coated cutting insert for milling applications Coated cemented carbide inserts (cutting tool), particularly useful for wet or dry milling of steels, are disclosed. The cutting tool insert is characterized by a cemented carbide body comprising WC, NbC and TaC, a W-alloyed Co binder phase, and a coating comprising... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8053064 | Coated cutting tool insert for milling The present invention relates to a coated cemented carbide insert (cutting tool), particularly useful for wet or dry milling of steels at high cutting speeds, milling of hardened steels, and high feed copy milling of tool steels. The cutting tool insert is character... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8043692 | Alloyed tungsten produced by chemical vapour deposition A wear-, erosion- and chemically-resistant material containing tungsten alloyed with carbon, the carbon being present in an amount of 0.01 wt % up to 0.97 wt % of the total weight, wherein the material preferably comprises a matrix of metallic tungsten with disperse... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8034438 | Coated cutting tool for general turning in heat resistant super alloys (HRSA) The present invention relates to coated cemented carbide inserts, particularly useful in general turning of superalloys. The inserts are characterized by a cemented carbide of WC, about 5.0-7.0 wt-% Co, and about 0.22-0.43 wt-% Cr, where the substrate has a coercivi... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8034439 | Plastic substrate having multi-layer structure and method for preparing the same The present invention relates to a plastic substrate having a multi-layer structure and a method for preparing the same. The plastic substrate of the present invention comprises plastic films attached to each other, and a first buffering layer of an organic-inorgani... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8025957 | Vehicle transparency A transparency includes a first ply having a first visible light transmission and a second ply having a second visible light transmission, with the first visible light transmission being greater than the second visible light transmission. A solar control coating is ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8025956 | Hard film and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed are a hard film and a method useful for manufacturing the hard film wherein the hard film is obviously excellent in wear resistance, and exhibits excellent oxidation resistance even under a condition where hot heat generation tends to occur due to friction... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8025958 | Material with hard coating film formed on substrate surface thereof A hard-coated material having a substrate coated with a wear resistant and easily removed film is provided. The film comprises laminated alternately in succession, a lower layer-A having a composition of formula TivM1-v(CxNy | 09/27/2011 |
| 8017225 | Cutting tool made of surface-coated cubic boron nitride-based ultrahigh pressure sintered material A cutting tool made of surface-coated cubic boron nitride-based ultrahigh pressure sintered material, comprising a cutting insert main body formed by ultrahigh pressure sintering of compact composed of titanium nitride, aluminum and/or aluminum oxide, and boron nitr... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8017226 | Hard film-coated member and jig for molding There are provided a hard film-coated member excellent in wear resistance and adhesion, and a jig for molding. The hard film-coated member includes: a base material including an iron base alloy containing Cr; a first film layer formed with a film thickness of 1 to 1... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8012572 | Multilayer, heat-shrinkable film comprising a plurality of microlayers A multilayer, heat-shrinkable film generally includes at least one bulk layer and a microlayer section comprising a plurality of microlayers. The ratio of the thickness of any of the microlayers to the thickness of the bulk layer ranges from about 1:2 to about 1:40.... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7955691 | Hard amorphous carbon film An amorphous hard carbon film comprising a first amorphous carbon layer substantially consists only of carbon formed on a substrate surface and a second amorphous carbon layer substantially consists only of carbon formed on the surface of the first amorphous carbon ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7923101 | Texture-hardened alpha-alumina coated tool The present invention relates to a coated cutting tool insert and a texture-hardened α-Al2O3 layer to be used in metal machining. The alumina layer is characterized by the improved toughness and it adheres to the substrate covering all functio... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7897247 | Coated cutting tool insert The present invention discloses coated cutting tool inserts particularly useful for turning of nodular cast iron preferably at high speeds, comprising a cemented carbide substrate comprising from about 5 to about 9 wt-% Co and from about 1 to about 5 wt % cubic carb... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7833617 | Multilayer, white, laser-cuttable polyester film The invention relates to a white, coextruded, oriented polyester film with a base layer (B) and with at least one outer layer (A), where the base layer (B) includes from 2 to 35% by weight, based on the weight of the base layer (B), of a whitening pigment and/or voi... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7833616 | Self-aligning nanowires and methods thereof A self-aligning nanowire includes a nanowire portion and an aligning member attached to the nanowire portion. The aligning member interacts with another aligning member on an adjacent self-aligning nanowire to align the nanowires together. A method of aligning nanow... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7833618 | Multilayer, white, laser-cuttable and laser-inscribable polyester film The invention relates to a white, coextruded, oriented polyester film with a base layer (B) and with at least one outer layer (A), where the base layer (B) includes a whitening pigment and/or void-forming incompatible polymer at a concentration of from 2 to 35% by w... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7803455 | Optical element and optical pickup apparatus The present invention provides an optical element including: a substrate; and an antireflection film formed on a surface of the substrate. The antireflection film includes a plurality of lower refractive index layers, and a plurality of higher refractive index layer... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7799413 | Coated cutting tool insert A CVD-coated cutting tool insert with improved toughness properties having the ability to withstand high temperatures without sacrificing edge line security is disclosed. The insert coating comprises a TiCxNy-layer with a low tensile stress lev... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7785700 | Surface-coated cutting tool A coating layer formed from an outermost layer and an inner layer disposed on a substrate surface of a surface coated cutting tool. The inner layer is formed from a periodic table group IVa, Va, VIa metal, Al, Si, B compound. The outermost layer is formed from alumi... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7781049 | Hydrogen transport membrane fabrication method A hydrogen transport membrane in which a porous ceramic support supports a dense layer of palladium or an alloy of palladium serving as a hydrogen transport material. The ceramic support has a first porous layer and a second porous layer. The first porous layer has ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7763346 | Surface coated cutting tool made of cermet having property-modified α type AlOlayer of hard coating layer A surface coated cermet cutting tool comprising a tool body and a hard coating layer formed on the surface of the tool body, wherein the hard coating layer has a lower layer of a titanium compound layer and an upper layer of property-modified α type Al2O... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7754316 | Coated cutting tool insert The present invention relates to a CVD-coated cutting tool insert with a TiCxNy layer with a low tensile stress level of from about 50 to about 390 MPa and an α-Al2O3 layer with a high surface smoothness with a mean Ra is... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7749594 | Cutting tool with wear resistant coating and method of making the same The present invention relates to a cutting tool comprising a substrate and, a wear resistant coating, said wear resistant coating is composed of one or more layers of refractory compounds of which at least one layer consists of a multilayered MX/LX/MX/LX laminar str... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7727621 | Insert for milling of steel The present invention relates to a cutting tool, e.g. carbide insert, solid carbide drill or mill or carbide tip, particularly for milling of steels, stainless steel, HRSA, titanium or any alloyed material from any of these groups, comprising a cemented carbide subs... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7713612 | Hard multilayer coating, and hard multilayer coated tool including the hard multilayer coating A hard multilayer coating including: (a) a backing layer which is to be disposed on a body and which includes a TiAlN layer and a TiAlN+CrN mixture layer that are alternately superposed on each other; and (b) a CrN layer which is disposed on the backing layer and wh... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7704593 | Cutting tool and method of producing the same A cutting tool having coating layers which are formed on the cutting tool substrate made of hard material, and the coating layers are composed of an inner layer of AlTiN, an interlayer of TiN, and an outer layer of Al2O3. The cutting tool is pr... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7674520 | PVD coated cutting tool The present invention describes a cutting tool with improved properties for metal machining having a substrate of cemented carbide and a hard and wear resistant coating on the surface of said substrate. The coating is deposited by Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD). Th... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7670674 | PVD coated cutting tool There is described a cutting tool with improved properties for metal machining having a substrate of cemented carbide and a hard and wear resistant coating on the surface of said substrate. The coating is deposited by Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD). The coating is ... | 03/02/2010 |