JPH08197308A - Cutting tool made of cubic system boron nitride base superhigh pressure sintered material having high strength and high toughness - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a cutting tool made of a CBN base superhigh pressure sintered material having high strength and high toughness. CONSTITUTION: A cutting tool is made of a CBN base superhigh pressure sintered material formed of a combined phase composed of 7 to 12% reaction product phase where the proportion of CBN grain as a hard dispersed phase is 45 to 70vol.%, and the remainder is formed of 20 to 40vol.% Al2 O3 , AlB2 , AlN and TiB2 , and TiN and inevitable impurity, the remainder, and forming a frame-structure (skeleton structure) composed of CBN grain and Al2 O3 grain.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention has high strength and high toughness, and therefore, in particular, even when the finish cutting of case-hardening steel is performed at high speed, the cutting edge is not chipped or chipped, so that it can be used for a long period of time. The present invention relates to a cutting tool made of a cubic boron nitride-based ultra-high pressure sintered material (hereinafter referred to as a CBN-based material cutting tool) that exhibits excellent cutting performance.

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2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as described in, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 61-43312, various cutting tools made of CBN base materials have been proposed. These cutting tools made of CBN base materials are made of, for example, SCr steel or SCM steel. It is also well known that it is used for finish cutting of case hardening steel such as carburized and quenched material.

[0003]

On the other hand, in recent years, cutting machines have been remarkably improved in performance, and there has been a strong demand for labor saving in cutting. Accordingly, cutting tends to be performed at high speed. In CBN-based cutting tools, when used for high-speed finish cutting of case-hardened steel such as the above-mentioned carburized and hardened materials, chipping or chipping of the cutting edge occurs due to insufficient strength and toughness. However, at present, the service life is reached in a relatively short time.

[0004]

Therefore, the present inventors have
From the above viewpoints, focusing on the cutting tool made of CBN base material and conducting research to improve the strength and toughness thereof, as a result, the cutting tool made of CBN base material was manufactured using a normal ultra-high pressure sintering machine. In this case, cubic boron nitride (hereinafter referred to as CBN) powder, Ti nitride (hereinafter referred to as TiN) powder, and aluminum oxide (hereinafter referred to as Al ₂ O ₃ ) that are generally used as raw material powders. In addition to the powder, a metal Al powder and a Ti-Al intermetallic compound powder are used, and a mixed powder of these raw material powders or a sintering temperature and a sintering pressure at the time of sintering of the green compact of the mixed powder are raised. When the temperature and the pressure are increased at the same time, and the temperature is decreased and the pressure is reduced in parallel, the metal Al powder and the Al-Ti intermetallic compound powder contained in the raw material powder are particularly different from each other. CBN powder, TiN powder, and Al ₂ O ₃ reaction to powder proceeds actively, become sinterability is further improved, as a result of Al more product (hereinafter, indicated by AlB ₂₎ and nitride (hereinafter , AlN
, And a Ti boride (hereinafter, TiB ₂ ) are formed, and the action of this reaction-produced phase forms CBN grains and Al ₂ O ₃ grains as a hard dispersed phase in the CBN-based material. Skeleton structure (skeleton structure)
It was found that the cutting tool composed of this CBN-based material has high strength and high toughness, since it is significantly strengthened.

The present invention has been made based on the above-mentioned research results, and the ratio of CBN particles as a hard dispersed phase is set to 45 to 70% by volume, and the rest is% by volume.
_{l 2 O 3: 20~40%,} AlB 2, AlN, and T
iB ₂ In configured reaction product phase: 7 to 12%, TiN and inevitable impurities: formed by the bond phase with the rest, a composition and backbone structure (skeleton structure) with CBN particles and Al ₂ O ₃ grains tissue It is characterized by a cutting tool made of a CBN-based material having high strength and high toughness, which is composed of the CBN-based material forming the.

Next, the reason why the composition of the CBN-based material constituting the cutting tool of the present invention is limited as described above will be explained. (A) CBN CBN has a micro Vickers hardness of about 4500 kg /
It has a high hardness of mm ² and improves the wear resistance of the cutting tool. It also acts to form a strong skeletal structure with the Al ₂ O ₃ grains by the action of the reaction-produced phase, improving the strength and toughness. However, if the proportion is less than 45% by volume, the desired excellent wear resistance and the formation of the skeleton structure cannot be achieved, while if the proportion exceeds 70% by volume, the strength and toughness are deteriorated. Therefore, the ratio is 45 to 70% by volume,
It is preferably set to 50 to 61% by volume.

(B) Al ₂ O ₃ Al ₂ O ₃ has improved resistance to thermal plastic deformation, thus suppresses wear of the cutting edge, and forms a skeletal structure together with CBN grains as described above to improve strength and toughness. However, if the proportion of the binder phase in the binder phase is less than 20% by volume, the desired wear-inhibiting effect and a strong skeletal structure cannot be obtained.
If it exceeds the capacity%, the strength and toughness tend to decrease.
Since the chipping and chipping of the cutting edge are likely to occur, the ratio is set to 20 to 40% by volume, preferably 25 to 35% by volume.

(C) Reaction-produced phase As described above, the formation of the reaction-produced phase composed of AlB ₂ , AlN, and TiB ₂ strengthens the skeletal structure formed by CBN grains and Al ₂ O ₃ grains. Cutting tools have high strength and high toughness, but if the ratio is less than 7% by volume in the binder phase, the desired high strength and high toughness cannot be secured, while the ratio is the same. If the proportion of the binder phase exceeds 12%, the wear resistance will decrease, so the proportion should be 7 to 1
It was set to 2% by volume, preferably 9 to 10% by volume. In addition,
The TiN grains forming the binder phase have an action of improving the toughness, and therefore, in order to secure the desired high toughness in the cutting tool, the content of TiN in the binder phase is preferably 40 to 60% by volume.

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EXAMPLES Next, the cutting tool of the present invention will be specifically described by way of examples. As raw material powder, average particle size: 3 μm
CBN powder, 0.8 μm TiN powder, 0.8 μm
m Al ₂ O ₃ powder, the same 1 μm metal Al powder, and the same 1 μm Ti-Al intermetallic compound powder were prepared, and these raw material powders were mixed in a predetermined composition and wet-mixed for 72 hours in a rotary ball mill. After drying, it is press-molded at a pressure of 3 ton / cm ² into a green compact having a diameter of 20 mm and a thickness of 1.5 mm, and the green compact is subjected to a vacuum of 3 × 10 ⁻⁴ torr. Temporarily sinter at a temperature of 1200 ° C. for 30 minutes, and then super-high-pressure calcining it in a state of being superposed with a tungsten carbide-based cemented carbide substrate having a diameter of 20 mm and a thickness of 2 mm. Put it in the binder and sinter temperature: 1200 ℃
And sintering pressure: temperature increase and pressure increase to 5 GPa are performed in parallel at the same time, and after holding at the sintering temperature and sintering pressure for 30 minutes, temperature decrease and pressure reduction are also performed in parallel to complete the sintering, and finally By grinding the upper and lower surfaces of the sintered body, dividing it into four by wire cutting, brazing this into a base made of tungsten carbide based cemented carbide, and polishing it into a throwaway tip of a prescribed shape, C having the composition shown in 1
The CBN-based material cutting tools 1 to 6 of the present invention in which the cutting edge portion is made of the BN-based material and the comparative CBN-based material cutting tool 1
~ 6 were produced respectively. In the comparative CBN-based material cutting tools 1 to 6, the CBN-based material constituting the cutting tools 1 to 6 has a composition in which any of the constituent contents of the CBN-based material is out of the range of the present invention. . Also, the above CB
The composition and texture of the N-based material are based on the results of observation using a scanning Auger electron microscope.

Next, regarding the various CBN-based material cutting tools obtained as a result, the work material: SCr420 carburized and hardened material (surface hardness: H _R C
61), cutting speed: 180 m / min., Depth of cut: 0.1 mm, feed: 0.1 mm / rev., Time: 20 minutes, dry high-speed finishing cutting test of case hardening steel, and work material: Carburized and quenched material of SCM415 (Surface hardness: H _R C
60), cutting speed: 220 m / min., Depth of cut: 0.1 mm, feed: 0.1 mm / rev., Time: 30 minutes, and dry dry high speed finishing cutting test of case hardening steel is performed.
The flank wear width of the cutting edge was measured. The results of these measurements are shown in Table 1.

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[Table 1]

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From the results shown in Table 1, the CBN of the present invention
The base material cutting tools 1 to 6 are all CBN grains and Al ₂
Since it has high strength and high toughness in combination with the formation of a skeletal structure by O ₃ grains, even when performing the finishing cutting of case-hardening steel at high speed, there is no chipping or chipping in the cutting edge and it exhibits excellent cutting performance. On the other hand, a comparative CBN-based cutting tool 1
As can be seen from Nos. 6 to 6, when the content of any one of the constituent components of the CBN-based material constituting the material is out of the range of the present invention, the progress of wear is accelerated, and the cutting edge is chipped or chipped. Clearly, it cannot be avoided. As described above, the CBN-based material cutting tool of the present invention is particularly required to have these characteristics because the CBN-based material constituting the cutting tool has high strength and high toughness and also has excellent wear resistance. Even when it is used for high-speed finish cutting of case hardening steel, etc., it exhibits excellent cutting performance for a long period of time.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The proportion of cubic boron nitride grains as a hard dispersed phase is 45 to 70% by volume, and the balance is volume%, aluminum oxide: 20 to 40%, Al boride and nitride. A reaction product phase composed of Ti boride: 7 to 12%, Ti nitride and inevitable impurities: balance, and a skeletal structure composed of cubic boron nitride grains and aluminum oxide grains. (Skeleton structure) A cutting tool made of a cubic boron nitride-based ultra-high pressure sintered material having high strength and high toughness, characterized by being composed of a cubic boron nitride-based ultra-high pressure sintered material forming a structure.