Patent ID: 8087918

Claim:
A pressing mold for use in press working of a material, consisting of: a mold body; and a coating film formed on the portion of the mold body that comes into contact with the material in the press working, the coating film being formed by a Physical Vapor Deposition method, the coating film consisting of: a TiN layer directly formed on a surface of the mold body; a Ti(C x N y ) layer formed on a surface of the TiN layer, wherein, x+y=1, 0<x<1, and x gradually increases from zero to 1 as the Ti(C x N y ) becomes more distant from the surface of the TiN layer in a thickness direction; and a TiC layer formed on a surface of the Ti(C x N y ) layer wherein the thickness of the coating film is 5 μm or less, surface roughness Ra of the surface of the mold body, on which the coating film is formed, is approximately 0.05 μm and surface hardness (Vickers hardness) of the pressing mold having the coating film is 3000 to 4000 HV.