Papers by Keyword: Cutting Edge Truncation

Abstract: Dies for injection molded parts require high-quality surface finishes in terms of both appearance and integrity. Manual finishing by skilled workers is required to produce such surfaces, but this takes several days. To minimize the amount of polishing required, a new finishing technique that employs ultrasonically assisted diamond grinding was proposed in a previous report. Cutting edge truncation prior to grinding is required to produce a mirror surface. In this study, the effect of cutting edge truncation was investigated and the relationships between the ground surface roughness and the cutting torque and the thrust force were considered to optimize the grinding conditions for mirror surface finishing.

Abstract: High precision mold grinding technique to obtain mirror surface is required which realizes minimization or omission of final polishing by skilled workers. In the previous reports, ultrasonic diamond grinding experiments were carried out to confirm ultrasonic oscillation effect for die steel face grinding. Smooth and glossy surfaces were obtained successfully and little abrasive worn out was found. In the above techniques require cutting edge truncation because the cutting edge shape of a tool affects the ground surface resulting from transcription of cutting edge. This paper describes optimization techniques for the cutting edge truncation of diamond electroplated tools which are used in ultrasonically assisted grinding. Experiments were carried out to confirm truncation effects on the ground surface and grinding force. It was confirmed that roughness was proportional to inverse of thrust force. Minimum roughness in grinding conditions were estimated from the proportional diagrams. The minimum roughness shows limit of roughness on an each grinding condition.

Abstract: The effect of cutting-edge truncation on the grinding mechanism of quartz glass as a hard and brittle material was investigated. From computer-aided grinding simulations and experiments on surface plunge grinding it was found that cutting-edge truncation decreases the ground-surface roughness and the maximum grain depth of cut; however, the maximum grain depth of cut approaches a constant value depending on the grinding wheel specifications. The alternative means of making the maximum grain depth of cut much smaller than this constant value is to increase the speed ratio. Cutting-edge truncation should be terminated at the optimum truncation depth to avoid the high grinding forces resulting from the flattening of cutting edges.

Abstract: High precision mold grinding technique to obtain mirror surface is required which realizes minimization or omission of final polishing by skilled workers. In the previous reports, ultrasonically diamond grinding experiments were carried out to confirm ultrasonically oscillation effect for die steel face grinding. Mirror surface was obtained successfully and little abrasive worn out was found. In the above technique, the cutting edge shape of a tool affects the ground surface resulting from transcription of cutting edge. In other words, cutting edge truncation of grinding tool is required to be smooth and glossy surface. This paper describes the cutting edge truncation of diamond electroplated tools which are used in ultrasonically assisted grinding. Experiments were carried out to confirm truncation effects on the ground surface and grinding force. It was confirmed that cutting edge truncation is effective method to obtain mirror surface and excessive truncation causes large grinding force and chattering.

Abstract: For the purpose of investigating the effect of cutting edge truncation on ground surface morphology, several kinds of hard and brittle materials used for optical devices, borosilicate glass, glass quartz, crystal quartz and sapphire, are plunge ground with a SD600 metal-bonded grinding wheel, the cutting edges of which are truncated so as to be aligned with the height level of the grinding wheel working surface, after electrocontact discharge truing and dressing. It is found that an improvement of roughness can be obtained for every material investigated, although the degree of roughness improvement depends on the kind of material. Ductile-mode grinding is most likely to be realized in the case of crystal quartz.