Patent ID: 8133576

Claim:
A coated cutting insert being any one of a drill, an end mill, a coated insert for milling or turning, a metal saw, a gear cutting tool, a reamer, a tap, and an insert for crankshaft pin milling, comprising: a substrate; a through hole centrally positioned in the substrate and extending from an upper surface to a bottom surface of the substrate; a base layer formed on said substrate; and an indicating layer formed on a part of said base layer that is formed on said upper surface of said substrate, wherein: said substrate has at least one cutting-edge portion, at least one rake face, and at least one flank face, said rake face formed on the upper surface of the substrate and lying between the cutting-edge portion and an outer edge of the through hole, said flank face continues to said rake face with said cutting-edge portion lying therebetween, said indicating layer can identify which cutting-edge portion has been used, said rake face has a chip breaker and has either a breaker recess portion or a land portion, said breaker recess portion being located adjacent to said cutting-edge portion and inclined from said cutting-edge portion toward a central portion of the rake face to form a concave shape, and said land portion being located adjacent to said cutting-edge portion and formed horizontally from said cutting-edge portion toward the central portion of the rake face, said base layer exhibits a color different from that of said indicating layer, said indicating layer is formed in at least a part of a surface including said cutting-edge portion and said rake face, but is not formed on said flank face, an outermost layer of said indicating layer is implemented by a layer formed from at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Al, Si, Cu, Pt, Au, Ag, Pd, Fe, Co, and Ni or an alloy containing that metal, or formed from a compound of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Al, and Si and at least one element selected from the group consisting of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and boron, and when a surface relative roughness Ra of said breaker recess portion or said land portion of said rake face is set to Aμm and a surface relative roughness Ra of said flank face is set to Bμm, relation of B/A ≦0.9 is established.