Patent Grant
8481145
This is a 371 U.S. National Phase Application of PCT/JP2009/055393, filed 19 Mar. 2009, which claims priority to JP 2008-070615, filed 19 Mar. 2008. The contents of the aforementioned applications are incorporated by reference in their entirety.
The present invention relates to a sintered cubic boron nitride tool used for cutting machining.
For cutting machining of a hardened steel or a heat resistant alloy, a sintered cubic boron nitride tool has been frequently used. For example, when a machine part such as a shaft of an automobile, etc., is to be produced by subjecting a hardened steel to cutting machining, a carburized layer existing at the surface of the hardened steel is removed by cutting machining, but depending on a shape of the material to be cut, a part which has not subjected to quenching is sometimes subjected to cutting machining. In such a high-load cutting machining, a temperature of the blade edge became extremely high, so that a sintered cubic boron nitride tool has been used in many cases. As a prior art technique of the sintered cubic boron nitride tool, there is a polycrystalline hard sintered body cutting tool in which a radius of curvature at a blade edge line portion is 5 μm or more and 30 μm or less, and a tool relief surface, and a tool rake surface or a negative land surface are smoothly connected to the above-mentioned radius of curvature.
See Patent Document JP 2001-212703A.
In recent years, it has been required to prepare a cutting tool which can endure high-efficiency cutting machining or high-load cutting machining in order to increase machining efficiency of parts machining. However, in the conventional sintered cubic boron nitride tool, when high-efficiency cutting machining or high-load cutting machining is carried out, chipping due to lack of strength of a blade edge or chipping caused by enlargement of crater wear is likely caused, so that the demand for improving machining efficiency has not sufficiently be satisfied. Thus, an object of the present invention is to provide a sintered cubic boron nitride tool which is capable of subjecting to stable machining without causing any defect under high-load cutting conditions or high-efficiency cutting conditions, which can establish elongation of tool lifetime.
The present inventor has studied to develop a sintered cubic boron nitride tool and coated sintered cubic boron nitride tool which can establish elongation of tool lifetime under severe cutting machining such as high-load cutting machining and high-efficiency cutting machining, and obtained a finding that there is an optimum combination between respective parts of the sintered cubic boron nitride tool and a surface structure. Between a round honing surface and chamfer honing surface, load or heat applied thereto at the time of cutting are different from each other. In the round honing surface, thermal load is large and blade edge strength is required, so that it is preferred to increase an amount of the cubic boron nitride which shows high hardness and high thermal conductivity. On the other hand, in the chamfer honing surface which causes rubbing of chip, dropping of the cubic boron nitride due to welding of chip is likely caused, so that it is preferred to increase an amount of the binder phase. Thus, by providing optimum surface structures to the round honing surface and the chamfer honing surface, respectively, it can be realized to accomplish elongation of lifetime of a tool in severe cutting machining such as high-load cutting machining and high-efficiency cutting machining.
That is, the present invention relates to a sintered cubic boron nitride tool, wherein at least a part which participates in cutting comprises a sintered cubic boron nitride tool comprising cubic boron nitride, a binder phase and inevitable impurities, having a relief surface, a rake surface, a chamfer honing surface and a round honing surface formed by an edge line crossed by the relief surface and the chamfer honing surface, a shape of the round honing surface being a radius of curvature R in the range of 10 to 50 μm, when assuming a reference length longer than five times an average particle size of cubic boron nitride is S, when a total length of profile curves of cubic boron nitride included in the reference length S of the chamfer honing surface is LCC, when a total length of profile curves of binder phase included in the reference length S of the chamfer honing surface is LCB, a ratio of LCC to LCB is PC(PC=LCC/LCB), a total length of profile curves of cubic boron nitride included in the reference length S of the round honing surface is LRC, a total length of profile curves of the binder phase included in the reference length S of the round honing surface is LRB, and a ratio of LRC to LRB is PR(PR=LRC/LRB), then a ratio of PR to PC(PR/PC) satisfies the relation of 1.2≦PR/PC≦8.0.
The sintered cubic boron nitride tool of the present invention comprises at least a part which participates in cutting being a cubic boron nitride sintered body. The sintered cubic boron nitride tool of the present invention may be a sintered cubic boron nitride tool in which the cubic boron nitride sintered body is brazed to a hard alloy base metal, or a sintered cubic boron nitride tool whole part of which comprises the cubic boron nitride sintered body.
The cubic boron nitride sintered body of the present invention comprises cubic boron nitride, a binder phase and inevitable impurities as essential constitutional components. In the present invention, the cubic boron nitride is preferably 40 to 90% by volume, more preferably 50 to 80% by volume, and the reminder is a binder phase and inevitable impurities. If the content of the cubic boron nitride is less than 40% by volume, hardness of the substrate is not sufficient against a hard material such as a hardened steel and chipping resistance is lowered, while if it exceeds 90% by volume, a ratio of the binder phase is relatively small, so that dropping of the cubic boron nitride occurs due to chip rubbing and welding whereby wear is markedly progressed.
The cubic boron nitride of the present invention has an average particle size of preferably 0.30 to 6.0 μm, more preferably 1.5 to 5.0 μm. If the average particle size of is less than 0.30 μm, thermal conductivity is lowered, so that blade edge temperature is increased at the time of cutting and strength of the edge is lowered whereby defect is likely caused, while if the average particle size of is larger than 6.0 μm, dropping of the particles is likely caused so that chipping is likely generated.
In the cubic boron nitride sintered body of the present invention, the binder phase preferably comprises at least one kind selected from the group consisting of a metal, nitride, carbide, boride, oxide of Group 4, 5, and 6 elements of the Periodic Table, Al, Si, Mg, Co and Ni, and mutual solid solutions thereof to improve toughness of the binder phase. Specific examples of the binder phase may be mentioned a metal Ti, metal Co, metal Ni, metal Al, TiN, Ti (B,N), Ti (B,C), Ti (B,O), Ti (B,N,O), Ti (B,N,C), Ti (B,N,O), Ti (B,N,C,O), (Ti,L)(B,N), (Ti,L)(B,C), (Ti,L)(B,O), (Ti,L)(B,N,C), (Ti,L)(B,N,O), (Ti,L)(B,C,O), (Ti,L)(B,N,C,O), AIN, Al(B,N), Al(B,C), Al(B,O), Al(B,N,O), Al(B,N,C), Al(B,C,O), Al(B,N,C,O), (Al,L)(B,N), (Al,L)(B,C), (Al,L)(B,O), (Al,L)(B,N,O), (Al,L)(B,N,C), (Al,L)(B,C,O), (Al,L)(B,N,C,O) (provided that the above-mentioned L represents at least one kind of Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Si, Mg, Co and Ni.), etc. Of these, the binder phase is more preferably at least one kind selected from a metal of Ti or Al, a nitride, carbide, boride, oxide and mutual solid solution thereof. As the impurities inevitably contained in the cubic boron nitride sintered body of the present invention, there may be mentioned Fe, Cu, etc. migrated from the starting powder of the cubic boron nitride sintered body. A total amount of the inevitable impurities is generally 0.5% by weight or less based on the whole cubic boron nitride sintered body, and they can be generally controlled to 0.2% by weight or less, so that they do not affect to the characteristic values of the present invention. In the present invention, in addition to the cubic boron nitride, the binder phase and inevitable impurities, other component(s) which cannot be said to be inevitable impurities may be contained in a small amount within the range which does not impair the characteristics of the cubic boron nitride sintered body of the present invention.
The sintered cubic boron nitride tool of the present invention possesses, as shown in
In the sintered cubic boron nitride tool of the present invention, when assuming a reference length longer than five times the average particle size of cubic boron nitride is S, the total length of profile curves of cubic boron nitride included in the reference length S of the round honing surface is LRC, the total length of profile curves of the binder phase included in the reference length S of the round honing surface is LRB, when the total length of profile curves of cubic boron nitride included in the reference length S of the chamfer honing surface is LCC, when the total length of profile curves of the binder phase included in the reference length S of the chamfer honing surface is LCB, the ratio of LRC to LRB is PR (PR=LRC/LRB), and the ratio of LCC to LCB is PC(PC=LCC/LCB), then, the ratio of PR to PC(PR/PC) satisfies the relation of 1.2≦PR/PC≦8.0. It is more preferably 1.6≦PR/PC≦6.0, particularly preferably 2.1≦PR/PC≦5.0.
In the present invention, to make the composition suitable for characteristics required for respective parts at the time of cutting machining, ratios of the cubic boron nitrides in the round honing surface and the chamfer honing surface are changed. If the PR/PC is less than 1.2, an amount of the cubic boron nitride at the round honing surface is not sufficiently much more than the amount of the cubic boron nitride at the chamfer honing surface, a cutting temperature is high, chipping and crater wear of blade edge are likely caused so that the tool becomes short lifetime. If the PR/PC is large exceeding 8.0, a binder phase at the round honing surface becomes excessively little, so that dropping of the cubic boron nitride particles at the round honing surface occurs and chipping is likely caused.
LRC, LRB, LCC and LCB are measured by the following mentioned method as an example. A sintered cubic boron nitride tool is cut at A-A′ line shown in
The sectional surface subjected to mirror surface finishing or the surface obtained by an ion milling shown in
The mirror surface-finished sectional surface is observed by a scanning electron microscope, and sectional surface structures of a round honing surface and a chamfer honing surface are photographed as shown in
LCC=LCC1+LCC2+ . . . +LCCn [Formula 1]
LCB=LCB1+LCB2+ . . . +LCBn [Formula 2]
With regard to the round honing surface, an image of a cross-sectional micrograph is analyzed as shown in
LRC=LRC1+LRC2+ . . . +LRCn [Formula 3]
LRB=LRB1+LRB2+ . . . +LRBn [Formula 4]
Due to the reasons that an average particle size of the cubic boron nitride is large, a radius of curvature R of the round honing surface is small, or a chamfer honing width T is short, and the like, there is a case where reference length S cannot ensure 5-fold or more of an average particle size of the cubic boron nitride only by one portion of the sectional surface curve. In such a case, the reference length S may be ensured by increasing a number of a measurement position of the sectional surface curve and reference lengths Sn of the respective sectional surface curves are added to obtain the sum thereof. Also, the reference length S may be ensured by observing a sectional surface curve which is in parallel direction to the edge line of the chamfer honing surface and the rake surface such as B-B′ line and C-C′ line in
In the present invention, by covering a coating film on the surface of the sintered cubic boron nitride tool, wear resistance, oxidation resistance, lubricating function, etc. of the tool are improved, whereby tool lifetime can be further improved. A film formed by at least one kind selected from a nitride, carbide and/or oxide of Group 4, 5, and 6 elements of the Periodic Table, Al, Si, B, Y and Mn, and a mutual solid solution thereof is preferred since they have large effects of improving wear resistance, oxidation resistance, etc., and enhance tool lifetime. Of these, it is more preferred that a crystal system of a coating film to be provided directly on the cubic boron nitride sintered body is the same as a crystal system of the cubic boron nitride of the substrate, i.e., that the crystal system of the coating film is cubic, adhesiveness between the substrate and the coating film is improved so that peeling of the coating film is difficultly caused and excellent characteristics of the coating film can be sufficiently shown.
As the coating film of the present invention, there may be specifically mentioned a coating film comprising TiN, Ti(C,N), Ti(C,N,O), (Ti,B)N, (Ti,Al)N, (Ti,Al)(C,N), (Ti,Al)(C,N,O), (Ti,Si)N, (Al,Cr)N, (Al,Cr,B)N, (Ti,Nb)N, (Ti,Al,Cr)N, (Nb,Si)N, (Al,Cr,W)N, (Ti,Al,Si)N, (Hf,Al)N, (Zr,Al)N, (Ti,Nb,Al,Si)N, (Ti, Cr,Al,Si)N, (Ti,W,B)N, CrN, etc. Of these, when the coating film is formed by at least one kind selected from a nitride, carbide, oxide and mutual solid solutions thereof containing Ti and Al, a balance in oxidation resistance and wear resistance becomes good. Of these, when the coating film composition is (Ti(1-a-b)AlaMb) (X) (wherein M represents one or more elements selected from Y, Cr, Si, Zr, Nb, Mn, W, Hf, V and B, X represents one or more elements selected from C, N and O, a represents an atomic ratio of Al based on the total of Ti, Al and M, b represents an atomic ratio of M based on the total of Ti, Al and M, and a and b each represents 0.1≦a≦0.7, 0.002≦b≦0.1), it is particularly preferred since oxidation resistance is high and hardness of the coating film becomes high. Here, when a is 0.1 or more, oxidation resistance is improved, and cutting temperature is lowered whereby chipping resistance is improved, but if a is large exceeding 0.7, an MN phase which has low hardness is formed whereby wear resistance is lowered. Also, if b is 0.002 or more, oxidation resistance is improved and hardness of the coating film becomes high so that wear resistance is improved, but if b becomes large exceeding 0.1, compression stress due to lattice deformation becomes large whereby peeling of the coating film is likely caused.
A coating film to be formed on the surface of the sintered cubic boron nitride tool of the present invention has an effect of improving tool lifetime even when it is a film of a single layer, but it is more preferred to provide a multi-layered film in which two or more kinds of films having different compositions are coated since improved effects in lifetime are more remarkable. For example, as an inner layer, TiN or TiCN which is to improve adhesiveness is coated directly on the substrate, and as an outer layer, CrN, CrSiN, TiBN, metal-containing DLC, AlCrBN, AlCrN or TiSiN which is to improve lubricating function, welding resistance and oxidation resistance is coated thereon. It is also possible to coat a film of an alternately laminated film in which two or more kinds of thin films having different compositions are coated with a layer-laminating interval of 1 to 30 nm. The coating film of the alternately laminated film has high hardness and is improved in wear resistance, so that it has the effects that peeling or dropping of the coating film can be prevented by suppressing propagation of crack caused in the coating film at the time of cutting machining.
The coating film of the present invention has an average film thickness of preferably 1 to 6 μm, more preferably 2 to 5 μm. If the average film thickness is 1 μm or more, improved effects in wear resistance are remarkable, while if it is thick exceeding 6 μm, a tendency of lowering adhesiveness is observed due to the effect of the residual stress of the coating film.
The sintered cubic boron nitride tool of the present invention can be prepared, for example, by the following method. The sintered cubic boron nitride tool is subjected to grinding by a diamond whetstone to form respective portions of a relief surface, chamfer honing surface and rake surface of a blade edge. Thereafter, a round honing surface having a predetermined radius of curvature R is provided between the relief surface and the chamfer honing surface. As an example of the machining method of the round honing surface, there may be mentioned a mechanical treatment such as machining with a whetstone, blast, or rotary brush, an electrical treatment such as discharge machining, and further a treatment in which the above treatments are combined.
Next, in order to optimize surface compositions of the cubic boron nitride at the round honing surface and the chamfer honing surface, a vacuum device equipped with an ion etching electrode and a film-forming device is used. As the ion etching electrode, there may be mentioned a triode direct current sputtering method using a heat filament, etc. As the coating film-forming device, there may be mentioned an arc ion plating device, magnetron sputtering device, etc.
In the ion etching using a noble gas element, removal of the surface substance(s) can be carried out by attracting and colliding to the substrate the noble gas element ionized by applying a negative voltage (bias voltage) to the substrate. The cubic boron nitride which is harder than the binder phase is difficultly removed, so that the surface of the cubic boron nitride sintered body has a higher ratio of the cubic boron nitride than the inside thereof. In
Next, the smoothly coated film is to be removed. Here, when sputtering with a noble gas element is carried out in a short period of time under high bias voltage conditions (Ion etching condition 1) at 1200 to 2000V, the portion around the blade edge of the cubic boron nitride sintered body is predominantly removed. Thereafter, by treating a round honing surface and a chamfer honing surface under the conditions (Ion etching condition 2) of a bias voltage at 50V to 180V, the cubic boron nitride sintered body at the round honing surface is firstly exposed by the previous high bias treatment, whereby the cubic boron nitride sintered body at the round honing surface can be selectively etched. When the treatment is further continued, the coating film at the chamfer honing surface is also removed, whereby the whole part which participates in cutting is treated. Present products can be obtained by carrying out the steps of the above-mentioned Film-forming condition 1→Ion etching condition 1→Ion etching condition 2 repeatedly, if necessary. It is important to adjust various parameters of film formation and ion etching, a treatment time, etc., depending on various factors such as each vacuum treatment device, tool shape, a shape of the holding tool, a substrate composition of the tool, rotary mechanism of the device, a filling ratio of the tool to a vacuum device, etc.
The sintered cubic boron nitride tool of the present invention can be subjected to stable machining since chipping is difficultly caused under high-load cutting conditions or high-efficiency cutting conditions, so that it accomplishes the effect that elongation of tool lifetime can be established.
A mixed powder having a formulated composition comprising 75% by volume cBN-5% by volume Al-10% by volume Al2O3-10% by volume Ti(C,N) using cubic boron nitride powder having an average particle size of 1.0 μm was sintered under ultra-high temperature and high pressure with the conditions of a pressure of 5.5 GPa and a temperature of 1773K to obtain a cubic boron nitride sintered body. The obtained cubic boron nitride sintered body was made Substrate 1.
A hard alloy base metal with a shape of ISO standard CNGA120408 was prepared, and Substrate 1 was brazed at a corner portion which becomes a blade edge of the hard alloy base metal. A rake surface (upper and bottom surfaces) and a relief surface (peripheral surface) of the brazed tool was polished with a diamond whetstone of #270, subsequently, a chamfer honing surface was formed to an edge line portion formed by the rake surface and the relief surface with a chamfer honing width T of 0.10 mm and a chamfer honing angle θ of −25° by a diamond whetstone of #400. Moreover, a rotary brush was pressed to a blade edge portion of the tool, and a round honing machining was carried out at the edge line portion formed by the relief surface and the chamfer honing surface. At this time, while adjusting a machining time, the round honing machining was carried out so that a radius of curvature R became that as shown in Table 1 by measuring with a contracer. After the round honing machining, the tool was washed with ethanol and acetone, thereafter vacuum drying treatment was carried out. Surface treatment shown in Table 1 was carried out to Substrate 1 of the sintered cubic boron nitride tool by using a vacuum device which is equipped with a magnetron sputtering device and an ion etching device which employs a φ1 mm tungsten wire as a heat filament to obtain cutting tools of Present products 1 to 15 and Comparative products 1 to 6. Incidentally, the surface treatments of the substrate are to carry out coating of a metal film to the substrate or an ion etching (hereinafter referred to as “IE”.), and specific surface treatment conditions are shown in Tables 2 and 3.
With regard to the cutting tools of the obtained Present products 1 to 15 and Comparative products 1 to 6, a round honing surface, a chamfer honing surface and a cross-sectional surface at the inside of the sintered body were photographed by scanning electron microscope (SEM). An image of the cross-sectional photography was analyzed, an average particle size of the cubic boron nitride (cBN) was measured, and then, lengths of profile curve of the cubic boron nitride at the round honing surface and the chamfer honing surface, and the binder phase were each measured to obtain PR/PC, these values are shown in Table 4.
With regard to cutting tools of Present products 1 to 15 and Comparative products 1 to 6, Cutting test 1 was carried out.
[Cutting Test 1]
The results of Cutting test 1 were shown in Table 4. Incidentally, from a number of machined materials, the results are shown by good cutting performance to bad one in the order of ⊚, ○, X (In the following cutting tests, similarly shown). From the results, it can be understood that Present products are increased in a number of machining 1.5 times or more as compared with those of Comparative products.
By using cubic boron nitride powder having an average particle size of 1.5 μm, a mixed powder with the formulation composition shown in Table 5 was sintered under ultra-high temperature and high pressure with the conditions of a pressure of 5.5 GPa and a temperature of 1773K to obtain a cubic boron nitride sintered body. The obtained cubic boron nitride sintered body was made Substrates 2 to 10. ISO standard CNGA120408 shape hard alloy base metal was prepared, and each cubic boron nitride sintered body of Substrates 2 to 10 was brazed to the corner portion thereof which is a blade edge of the hard alloy base metal.
Each of a rake surface (upper and bottom surfaces) and a relief surface (peripheral surface) of the tools in which each cubic boron nitride sintered body of Substrates 2 to 10 had been brazed was polished by a #270 diamond whetstone, subsequently, a chamfer honing surface was formed to an edge line portion formed by the rake surface and the relief surface with a chamfer honing width T of 0.20 mm and a chamfer honing angle θ of −30° by a #600 diamond whetstone. Moreover, a rotary brush was pressed to a blade edge portion of the tool, to carry out round honing machining at the edge line portion formed by the relief surface and the chamfer honing surface. At this time, while adjusting a machining time, measurement was carried out by a contracer, and round honing machining was carried out so that the radius of curvature R became 30 μm. After the round honing machining, each tool was washed with ethanol and acetone, thereafter vacuum drying treatment was carried out. Surface treatment shown in Table 6 was carried out to each of Substrates 2 to 10 of the sintered cubic boron nitride tools by using a vacuum device which is equipped with a magnetron sputtering device and an ion etching device which employs a φ 1 mm tungsten wire as a heat filament to obtain cutting tools of Present products 16 to 24 and Comparative products 7 and 8. Specific surface treatment conditions were shown in Table 7. Incidentally, Condition 1 of the surface treatment means that no surface treatment of Substrates was carried out.
With regard to the cutting tools of the obtained Present products 16 to 24 and Comparative products 7 and 8, a round honing surface, a chamfer honing surface and a cross-sectional surface at the inside of the sintered body were photographed by a scanning electron microscope (SEM). An image of the cross-sectional photography was analyzed, and after an average particle size of the cubic boron nitride (cBN) was measured, the cubic boron nitrides of the round honing surface and the chamfer honing surface, and lengths of profile curve of the binder phase were each measured to obtain PR/PC, and these values were shown in Table 8.
With regard to the cutting tools of Present products 16 to 24 and Comparative products 7 and 8, Cutting test 2 was carried out.
[Cutting Test 2]
The results of Cutting test 2 are shown in Table 8. Present products showed twice or more lifetime than those of Comparative products. Among these, Present products 17 to 23 are particularly good, and further Present products 18, 20 and 22 were still possible to carry out cutting even after machining time of 30 min, and improved in lifetime about 3-folds of Comparative products 7 and 8.
By using the cubic boron nitride powder having an average particle size shown in Table 9, a mixed powder having a formulation composition comprising 65% by volume cBN-10% by volume Al-15% by volume Al2O3-10% by volume TiN was subjected to ultra-high temperature and high pressure under the conditions of a pressure of 5.5 GPa and a temperature of 1773K to obtain each cubic boron nitride sintered body. The obtained cubic boron nitride sintered bodies were made Substrates 11 to 20. ISO standard CNGA120408 shaped hard alloy base metal was prepared, and each cubic boron nitride sintered body of Substrates 11 to 20 was brazed to the corner portion which is a blade edge of the hard alloy base metal.
Each of a rake surface (upper and bottom surfaces) and a relief surface (peripheral surface) of the tools in which cubic boron nitride sintered bodies of Substrates 11 to 20 had been brazed was polished by a #270 diamond whetstone, subsequently, a chamfer honing surface was formed to an edge line portion formed by the rake surface and the relief surface with a chamfer honing width T of 0.23 mm and a chamfer honing angle θ of −20° by a #600 diamond whetstone. Moreover, a rotary brush was pressed to a blade edge portion of the tool, to carry out round honing machining at the edge line portion formed by the relief surface and the chamfer honing surface. At this time, while adjusting a machining time, measurement was carried out by a contracer, and round honing machining was carried out so that the radius of curvature R became 30 μm. After the round honing machining, each tool was washed with ethanol and acetone, thereafter vacuum drying treatment was carried out. Surface treatment shown in Table 10 was carried out to each of Substrates 11 to 20 of the sintered cubic boron nitride tools by using a vacuum device which is equipped with a magnetron sputtering device and an ion etching device which employs a φ 1 mm tungsten wire as a heat filament to obtain cutting tools of Present products 25 to 34 and Comparative products 9 and 10. Conditions 18 and 19 of the surface treatment are the same conditions as Conditions 18 and 19 of the surface treatment in Example 2, respectively. Incidentally, Condition 1 of the surface treatment means that no surface treatment of Substrates was carried out. Incidentally, Condition 1 means not to carry out the surface treatment of the substrate.
With regard to the obtained cutting tools of Present products 25 to 34 and Comparative products 9 and 10, each sectional surface at the inside the substrate was prepared and observation of the sectional surface was carried out by a scanning electron microscope (SEM), an average particle size of the cubic boron nitride (cBN) was measured, and the values are shown in Table 11. Further, sectional surfaces of the round honing surface and the chamfer honing surface were photographed by a scanning electron microscope (SEM). An image of the sectional photograph was analyzed, the cubic boron nitrides of the round honing surface and the chamfer honing surface, and lengths of profile curve of the binder phase were each measured to obtain PR/PC, and the values are shown in Table 11.
With regard to the cutting tools of Present products 25 to 34 and Comparative products 9 and 10, Cutting test 3 was carried out.
[Cutting Test 3]
The results of Cutting test 3 are shown in Table 11. Present products showed 1.5-times or more lifetime than those of Comparative products. Among Present products, the cubic boron nitrides having an average particle size of 1.5 to 5 μm were particularly good, and showed a lifetime of 2-fold or more than those of Comparative products.
By using a cubic boron nitride powder having an average particle size of 3.0 μm, a mixed powder having a formulation composition comprising 55% by volume cBN-10% by volume Al-20% by volume Al2O3-15% by volume TiN was subjected to ultra-high temperature and high pressure under the conditions of a pressure of 5.5 GPa and a temperature of 1773K to obtain a cubic boron nitride sintered body. The obtained cubic boron nitride sintered body was made a substrate 21.
ISO standard CNGA120408 shaped hard alloy base metal was prepared, and Substrate 21 was brazed to the corner portion which is a blade edge of the hard alloy base metal. A rake surface (upper and bottom surfaces) and a relief surface (peripheral surface) of the brazed tool was polished by a #270 diamond whetstone, subsequently, a chamfer honing surface was formed to an edge line portion formed by the rake surface and the relief surface with a chamfer honing width T of 0.26 mm and a chamfer honing angle θ of −18° by a #600 diamond whetstone. Moreover, a rotary brush was pressed to a blade edge portion of the tool, to carry out round honing machining at the edge line portion formed by the relief surface and the chamfer honing surface. At this time, while adjusting a machining time, measurement was carried out by a contracer, and round honing machining was carried out so that the radius of curvature R became 30 μm. After round honing machining, the tool was washed with ethanol and acetone, thereafter vacuum drying treatment was carried out. Surface treatment shown in Table 12 was carried out to Substrate 21 of the sintered cubic boron nitride tool by using a vacuum device which is equipped with a magnetron sputtering device and an ion etching device which employs a φ 1 mm tungsten wire as a heat filament, and a coating film shown in Table 12 was formed by using an arc ion plating electrode except for a part of the samples to obtain cutting tools of Present products 35 to 58 and Comparative products 11 to 14. Specific surface treatment conditions are shown in Table 13. Incidentally, Condition 1 means not to carry out the surface treatment of the substrate. Also, specific coating conditions are shown in Table 14.
With regard to the cutting tools of the obtained Present products 35 to 58 and Comparative products 11 to 14, a round honing surface, chamfer honing surface and a cross-sectional surface at the inside of the sintered body were photographed by scanning electron microscope (SEM). An image of the sectional photograph was analyzed, and after an average particle size of the cubic boron nitride (cBN) was measured, the cubic boron nitrides of the round honing surface and the chamfer honing surface, and lengths of profile curve of the binder phase were each measured to obtain PR/PC, and the values are shown in Table 15.
With regard to cutting tools of Present products 35 to 58 and Comparative products 11 to 14, Cutting test 4 was carried out.
[Cutting Test 4]
The results of Cutting test 4 are shown in Table 15. Lifetimes of Comparative products 11 to 14 were less than 10 minutes. Lifetime of Present product 35 without coating film showed 2-times or more the lifetimes of Comparative products 11 to 14. By coating a film to Present products, lifetime was further improved. Of these, in particular, lifetimes of Present products 45 to 58 in which a coating film mainly comprising Ti and Al became 3 to 5-folds the lifetimes of Comparative products 11 to 14.
Utilizability in Industry
In the present invention, by providing optimum surface structures to the round honing surface and the chamfer honing surface of sintered cubic boron nitride tools respectively, elongation of tool lifetime can be realized under severe cutting machining such as high-load cutting machining or high-efficiency cutting machining. According to this, reduction in cost of a cutting machining can be made coupled with improvement in cutting machining efficiency, so that utilizability in industry is extremely large.
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