Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack
Process for the production of a cutting tool
 A process for producing a cutting tool having a rake face and flank face which intersect to form a cutting edge, which cutting tool comprises a substrate consisting of a sintered hard metal and a coating film provided thereon consisting of a material with a higher hardness than the substrate, which method involves subjecting the substrate to a coating treatment and honing treatment in such a manner that the coating film near the cutting edge has such a thickness that the thickness continuously increases in directions away from the cutting edge along both the rake face and the flank face from a minimum value, including zero, at the cutting edge, such that the thickness of the coating at the rake face reaches a maximum thickness at a first distance from the cutting edge and the thickness at the flank face reaches a maximum thickness at a second distance from the cutting edge, wherein the first distance is greater than the second distance. 
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
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Yoshikatsu Hiroshi Akio Mitsunori
Mori Fujii Hara Kobayashi