Abstract:
A motor and method of manufacturing a motor having a steel shaft with a carbon content greater than or equal to about 0.4 percent by weight and a powder metal bearing coupled about the shaft. The invention also includes a method of using a motor having a non-hardened steel shaft with a carbon content greater than or equal to about 0.4 percent by weight and a powder metal bearing coupled about the non-secondary hardened shaft. The method includes applying a radial load to the bearing greater than about 25,000 pound-feet per square-inch minute.
Abstract:
A motor includes a rotor section with a rotor shaft having an end section, and a stator section including a yoke section disposed opposite the rotor section. The motor is also equipped with a bearing assembly having a bearing member that includes a main bearing section with a recess section and a ball bearing received in the recess section wherein the ball bearing rotatably support the end section of the rotor shaft, and a bearing holder defining a center through hole that slidably holds the main bearing section of the bearing member in the axial direction, wherein the bearing holder is formed from a sintered compact member.
Abstract:
A motor and a disk drive device having the disk drive motor are disclosed. A bearing bush is arranged on a motor mounting plate constituting a base for mounting on the disk drive device to read/write data from/into a recording disk. A shaft is supported rotatably through a bearing inside the bearing bush. A rotor on which an annular disk is placed is fixed at the upper end of the shaft. A rotor magnet is mounted on the inner peripheral wall surface of the rotor. A stator is arranged in opposed relation with the rotor magnet outside the bearing bush. The bearing bush is made of an aluminum alloy, the motor mounting plate is made of an aluminum alloy or a silicon steel plate, and the circuit board is formed of FPC. As a result, the heat generated in the motor can be efficiently radiated. Thus, the disk drive motor and the disk drive device having the motor are reduced in thickness and weight.
Abstract:
This motor comprises a core, a drive coil wound on the core, a housing, and a stator having an insulator for insulating the drive coil formed one-piece with the housing. Further, the motor comprises a stator casing for encasing the stator, and a rotor disposed outside the stator. Inside the housing is disposed a bearing for supporting the rotary shaft of the rotor, and an oil retainer disposed so as to partially come in contact with the bearing is stored in a storing section provided in either one of the housing and the stator casing.
Abstract:
A reliable bearing unit, in which lubricant does not leak and the problem of shaft lifting at the time of the rotation of a rotor due to the imbalance of a pair of dynamic pressure generating grooves can be surely and inexpensively solved, and a rotary drive apparatus including the bearing unit are provided. Accordingly, a shaft 100 which has an exposed end 160, an inner end 162 of a small external diameter provided opposite to the exposed end 160, and a stepped middle portion 170 formed between the exposed end 160 and the inner end 162; a thrust bearing 130 which supports the inner end 162 of the shaft 100 in a rotatable manner in the thrust direction; and lubricant 150 in a retention member 120 which is filled between the shaft 100, a radial bearing 110 and the thrust bearing 130 are provided; and the length m of the inner end 162 of the shaft 100 in the direction of the shaft is shorter than the length n in the direction of the shaft of the part between the outer surface of the retention member 120 and the stepped middle portion 170 of the shaft 100.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a low vibration brushless motor for reducing the vibration of the motor in an axial direction. In the brushless motor, a bearing is provided in a bearing boss, a shaft is held by the bearing, an end face of the shaft is contacting a thrust receiving member, and the shaft is rotatably axially supported by the bearing. The brushless motor includes a permanent magnet for attracting the end face of the shaft in the thrust direction with the thrust receiving member therebetween, and a bottom receiving part for supporting the permanent magnet, wherein the bearing boss, bearing, shaft, and bottom receiving part are made of a magnetic material, and a closed magnetic path is formed so that a magnetic flux passes through the permanent magnet, bottom receiving part, bearing boss, bearing, and shaft.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a kinetic pressure bearing motor, which is provided with an auxiliary dynamic pressure generating means, thus allowing a motor shaft to be stably rotated at a high speed, and considerably reducing vibration, therefore enhancing the performance of the motor. The kinetic pressure bearing motor includes a support unit which is provided at an outer surface of a motor shaft, and a shaft holder which is fitted over an upper portion of the motor shaft. Further, grooves for generating dynamic pressure are formed on an outer surface of the support unit. An extension is provided at the shaft holder to support the support unit in such a way as to be in contact with the outer surface of the support unit having the grooves.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a hydrodynamic bearing having a shaft, a bearing sleeve that encloses the shaft with a short radial spacing forming a concentric bearing gap, and an equalizing volume that is disposed between an outer circumference of the bearing sleeve and a covering cap at least partly overlapping the bearing sleeve and firmly fixed with respect to the bearing sleeve and connected to the bearing gap via at least one connecting channel or gap, a bearing fluid filling the bearing gap and the connecting channel/gap fully and the equalizing volume at least partially and the bearing fluid forming a continuous fluid film between the bearing gap and the equalizing volume.
Abstract:
A motor (100) having a dynamic pressure fluid bearing is composed of a hub (2), a rotor (4) provided with a shaft (7) of which one end portion is securely fastened by the hub (2) and another end portion is formed with a flange (8), and a stator (3) composed of a sleeve section (9) for axially sustaining the shaft (7) so as to be rotatable freely and a thrust plate (10) secured on the sleeve section (9) so as to confront with the flange (8), wherein the dynamic pressure fluid bearing is composed of a thrust dynamic pressure fluid bearing constituted by the flange (8) and the thrust plate (10), and wherein the shaft (7) is provided with a through hole (17) bored through the shaft (7) from the one end surface to the other end surface, and wherein the through hole (17) is formed in a shape having an opening to the other end surface of the shaft (7) by way of a funnel shaped section (17c) of which diameter gradually increases toward the other end surface of the shaft (7).
Abstract:
A motor, possibly for a pump, has a housing, a first member disposed within the housing and mounted on an inner wall of the housing, and a second member rotatably disposed within the housing and having a rotary shaft. A thrust bearing is mounted within the housing in order to support a first end of the rotary shaft in an axial direction of the rotary shaft. A core and coils wound around the core are provided on one of the first and second members. A set of magnets is provided on the other of the first and second members. The core and the set of magnets are positioned such that a magnetic force is produced in an area where a magnetic flux is generated between the core and the set of magnets. The magnetic force causes the second member to move toward the thrust bearing.