Diamond tool machining of materials which react with diamond

Patent Application · Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:6706800

Lundin, R L; Stewart, D D; Evans, C J

This invention is comprised of an apparatus for the diamond machining of materials which detrimentally react with diamond cutting tools in which the cutting tool and the workpiece are chilled to very low temperatures. This chilling halts or retards the chemical reaction between the workpiece and the diamond cutting tool so that wear rates of the diamond tool on previously detrimental materials are comparable with the diamond turning of materials which do not react with diamond.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• Patent Number(s): PATENTS-US-A7678488
• Application Number: ON: DE93008226; PPN: US 7-678488
• OSTI ID: 6706800
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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