TY - JOUR
T1 - Complete ashing of used DLC coating for reuse of the end-milling tools
AU - Aizawa, Tatsuhiko
AU - Masaki, Eijirou
AU - Sugita, Yoshio
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to express their gratitude to Mr. H. Morimoto (Green Tool, Co., Ltd.) and Dr. H. Matsuoka (MTR, Co., Ltd.) for their help in the experiments. This study was financially supported in part by the Grant-in-Aid from MEXT under contract of #41001 , and, by the SIT projects under contract of #411501 , respectively.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Diamond like carbon (DLC) coated tools have been widely utilized in the dry milling and cutting of aluminum alloy parts and components. Since the DLC film deteriorates during milling operations by reduction of the film thickness or adhesive wear, it must be removed or ashed away before grinding, polishing and recoating not only to preserve high quality of the machined products but also to reduce the production cost. In the present paper, high density oxygen plasma ashing was applied for the complete removal of the used DLC coating together with the chromium interlayers without damaging the tool substrate materials. DLC-coated end-milling tools were prepared to prove that the whole DLC coating could be completely removed at a faster rate than by conventional approaches.
AB - Diamond like carbon (DLC) coated tools have been widely utilized in the dry milling and cutting of aluminum alloy parts and components. Since the DLC film deteriorates during milling operations by reduction of the film thickness or adhesive wear, it must be removed or ashed away before grinding, polishing and recoating not only to preserve high quality of the machined products but also to reduce the production cost. In the present paper, high density oxygen plasma ashing was applied for the complete removal of the used DLC coating together with the chromium interlayers without damaging the tool substrate materials. DLC-coated end-milling tools were prepared to prove that the whole DLC coating could be completely removed at a faster rate than by conventional approaches.
KW - Complete ashing
KW - DLC-coated tools
KW - High density oxygen plasma
KW - Reuse of tool materials
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mfglet.2013.10.006
DO - 10.1016/j.mfglet.2013.10.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84892862379
SN - 2213-8463
VL - 2
SP - 1
EP - 3
JO - Manufacturing Letters
JF - Manufacturing Letters
IS - 1
ER -