Patent ID: 7540341

Claim:
A drill bit comprising: a plurality of cutting blades disposed at a tip end of a drill, each of the cutting blades extending substantially radially outward from a rotation center side of the drill, each of the cutting blades having a cutting edge formed by protruding an edge between a face and a flank of each cutting blade toward a tip end of the drill, and a shaft-shaped bit body attached to a base end side of the cutting blades and having a base end portion coupled to a shank portion, the drill bit being configured to perform striking and cutting by a combination of a rotation and an axial movement, wherein the cutting blades include main cutting blades and sub cutting blades, the main cutting blades including radially oriented main cutting edges, each of the main cutting edges extending radially to an inner end and converging at a rotational and geometric center of the drill bit to form a pointed tip end, each of the main cutting blades having an outer end located on an outer periphery of a rotation trace of the drill bit; the sub cutting blades including exclusively linear sub cutting edges extending in the radial direction, each of the sub cutting edges having an inner end spaced radially outward apart from the rotational and geometric center and an outer end spaced radially inward from the outer periphery of the rotation trace, and a planar crush face formed between the inner end of each sub cutting edge and the rotational and geometric center to retreat from the sub cutting edge such that the crush face is inclined downward on the flank side of the sub cutting blade, an outer extent of each crush face terminating at the inner end of the adjacent sub cutting blade.