Sandvik Intellectual Property AB

A disc milling tool including cutting inserts is provided. The cutting insert includes a top face and a bottom face parallel to the top face. Four side faces and four corner faces extend between the top and bottom faces. At least one cutting edge is formed at an intersection of the top face and at least one of the corner faces and two of the side faces connected to the corner face. The top face forms a rake surface, while an upper part of the corner face and the two side faces form a relief surface connected to the cutting edge. In order to reduce the cycle time for crank shaft milling, the cutting insert has two diagonally opposed corners including an acute angle between 70° and 85°. At least one of the acute angled corners including the corner face providing a corner cutting edge.

The present disclosure relates to a method of making a powder of dense and spherically shaped cemented carbide or cermet granules. The present disclosure also relates to a powder produced by the method and use of said powder in additive manufacturing such as 3D printing by the binder jetting technique. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) process for manufacturing a product by using said powder.

A mobile bulk material processing apparatus having at least one material processing unit that is mounted at a hanging assembly including a carrier frame suspended from a main frame of the apparatus. The hanging assembly is capable of being connected or disconnected from the mainframe of the machine via a semi-automated process using a plurality of powered actuators acting on first and/or second couplings.

A control unit for controlling machine functions of a mining machine, such as an underground mining machine, tunneling machine or bolting rig, includes a flameproof housing having at least one fluid inlet and at least one fluid outlet, and a plurality of fluid control valves respectively communicating with the at least one inlet and outlet. In particular, the fluid control valves are formed inside at least one valve monoblock, the monoblock including a plurality of distinct fluid passages.

A coated cutting tool includes a substrate coated with a multi-layered wear resistant coating having a layer of α-Al 2 O 3 and a layer of titanium carbonitride Ti x C y N 1-y , with 0.85≤x≤1.3 and 0.4≤y≤0.85, deposited on the α-Al 2 O 3 layer. The Ti x C y N 1-y exhibits a texture coefficient TC(hkl), measured by X-ray diffraction using CuKα radiation and θ-2θ scan. The TC(hkl) is defined according to Harris formula: TC ⁡ ( hkl ) = I ⁡ ( hkl ) I 0 ⁡ ( hkl ) ⁡ [ 1 n ⁢ ∑ n = 1 n ⁢ I ⁡ ( hkl ) I 0 ⁡ ( hkl ) ] - 1 , wherein I(hkl) is the measured intensity (integrated area) of the (hkl) reflection; I 0 (hkl) is standard intensity of the standard powder diffraction data according to JCPDS card no. 42-1489; n is the number of reflections used in the calculation, and where the (hkl) reflections used are (1 1 1), (2 0 0), (2 2 0), (3 1 1), (3 3 1), (4 2 0) and (4 2 2), and wherein TC(1 1 1)≥3.

A corrosion resistant duplex stainless steel (ferritic austenitic alloy) is suitable for use in a plant for the production of urea. Uses of the corrosion resistant duplex stainless steel include in objects made of said duplex stainless steel, in methods for the production of urea, in a plant for the production of urea comprising one or more parts made from said duplex stainless steel, and in methods of modifying an existing plant for the production of urea. In one aspect, the composition consists of in weight % (wt %): C 0.010 to 0.015; S 0.08 to 0.23; Mn 1.0 to 1.05; Cr 29.07 to 29.92; Ni 5.76 to 7.17; Mo 3.0 to 4.0; W max 2.55; N 0.3 to 0.35; Cu max 0.01; S max 0.008; P max 0.008; at least one of Ti, Nb, Hf, Ca, Ba, V, and B max 0.5 total; balance Fe and unavoidable occurring impurities.

A milling insert for a side and face milling tool includes an upper side defining an upper extension plane, a lower side defining a lower extension plane, and a side surface extending between the upper and the lower sides around a periphery of the insert that includes a main radial clearance surface, two opposite axial clearance surfaces and two corner clearance surfaces. At least one cutting edge is formed in a transition between the upper and the side surfaces, wherein each cutting edge includes a main cutting edge extending above the main radial clearance surface and two corner cutting edges extending above the corner clearance surfaces on opposite sides of the main cutting edge. The main cutting edge slopes downward toward a midpoint of the main cutting edge and the main cutting edge and the main radial clearance surface slope outward from the corner cutting edges toward the midpoint.

A parting/grooving insert and a method of grinding a parting/grooving insert including rotating a plane grinding surface having a normal vector parallel to the axis of rotation and a tangential direction of rotation; providing a parting/grooving insert including a rake surface, a main clearance surface, and a main cutting edge formed between the rake and main clearance surfaces; orienting/positioning the insert relative to the grinding surface, such that the main clearance surface is parallel to the grinding surface, the normal vector of the main cutting edge being in the plane of the main clearance surface and with a vector component in the direction of rotation forming an angle to the tangential direction of rotation at the insert of at least 20 degrees from parallel orientation; and grinding the main clearance surface to provide grinding marks having an angle to the normal vector of the main cutting edge corresponding to the angle to the tangential direction of rotation.

A cutting insert for cutting, milling or drilling of metal includes a body having an elongate recess extending along at least a portion of the body, a first layer covering interior side walls of the recess, and a sensor arrangement. The body includes a substrate. The sensor arrangement includes sa lead extending along the recess. The lead includes electrically conductive material, which is arranged in the recess such that the first layer is located between the electrically conductive material and the substrate. For at least a depth below which at least a portion of the electrically conductive material is arranged in the recess, a width of the recess measured at that depth between portions of the first layer covering opposite interior side walls of the recess is less than or equal to 80 micrometers.

The present disclosure relates to a heating element, wherein at least one part of the heating element is manufactured from a molybdenum disilicide composition and wherein in the molybdenum disilicide composition, molybdenum is substituted by chromium according to (Mo 1-x Cr x )Si 2 and x is in the range of 0.16≤x≤0.19.