Chip Splitting
Core advantage: The wavy cutting edge can "bite" wide and long continuous chips, breaking them into multiple small "C" - or "9" - shaped fragments.
Benefits brought:
Smooth chip removal: Small chips are more easily washed away by cutting fluid, avoiding long chips from wrapping around the tool or workpiece, and preventing tool damage, workpiece scratches, or even tool breakage caused by poor chip removal.
Reduce cutting force and heat generation: Disperse the overall huge cutting force into multiple small impact forces, reducing the overall load on the tool, spindle, and workpiece, while also allowing heat to be carried away faster by the chips.
Shock absorption and earthquake resistance
The wavy edge makes the contact between the tool and the workpiece intermittent, forming a "cut in cut out" pulse cutting. This characteristic can effectively break resonance, suppress chatter, and achieve stable deep cutting even in situations where the rigidity of the machine tool is slightly poor or the clamping is imperfect.
Allow for extremely high material removal rates
Thanks to the aforementioned shock absorption and force reduction characteristics, corn cutters can withstand much larger cutting depths (axial cutting depths) and higher feed rates than ordinary end mills. This means that within a unit of time, it can 'gnaw' more materials, resulting in extremely high processing efficiency.