摘要:
In spindle motors journaled on fluid-dynamic-pressure bearings, especially in such spindle motors employed in recording-disk drives in implementations that subject the drives to vibration and shock, sealing performance of a capillary seal formed between motor rotor-side and stator-side bearing surfaces, cohesiveness of oil-repellant on rotor-side/stator-side dry-area surfaces adjoining the capillary seal section, and motor inter-component adhesive strength are improved. The capillary-seal-constituting rotor-side/stator-side surface(s) are exposed to a plasma or to ultraviolet rays under predetermined conditions to improve the wettability of the surface(s) for the bearing fluid. The dry-area surface(s) are similarly irradiated so as to improve their wettability for the oil-repellant. Adhesively bonded component surfaces are likewise irradiated so as to improve their wettability for the adhesive, enhancing adhesive strength. Exposed surfaces may be constituted of a synthetic resin to enhance their wettability further, or may be made of metal, to yield a cleaning efficacy from the plasma/UV exposure.
摘要:
Fluid-dynamic-pressure bearing furnished with a shaft, a top plate fixed to an upper portion of the shaft, a thrust plate fixed to a lower portion of the shaft, a sleeve, and a cuplike bearing housing that along its inner periphery retains the sleeve. A lubricating-fluid-filled continuous micro-gap is formed in between the shaft and the sleeve and the top plate and the sleeve. Radial bearing sections are formed in between the shaft cylindrical outer surface and the sleeve cylindrical inner surface. An upper thrust bearing section is formed in between the undersurface of the top plate and the top-edge face of the bearing housing. A lower thrust bearing section formed in between the bottom margin of the sleeve and the top margin of the thrust plate. The bearing sections are each provided with dynamic-pressure-generating grooves for inducing dynamic pressure in the lubricating fluid when the shaft or sleeve spins.
摘要:
A dynamic pressure bearing is defined in a first gap between a shaft portion and a sleeve portion. An upper seal portion extending upward and a lower seal portion extending downward are arranged radially outward of the dynamic pressure bearing. Each of the upper seal portion and the lower seal portion includes a surface including a lubricating oil located therein. The upper seal portion and the lower seal portion are arranged in communication with each other through a communicating hole defined in the sleeve portion. The communicating hole and a space ranging from the upper seal portion to the lower seal portion through the first gap are filled with the lubricating oil. The axial distance between the surfaces of the lubricating oil in the upper seal portion and the lower seal portion is arranged to be shorter than the axial distance between an upper end and a lower end of the dynamic pressure bearing.
摘要:
A spindle motor for use in a 2.5 inch 7 mm high disk drive apparatus includes a base portion; a stator arranged above the base portion; a rotor hub including a cover portion positioned above the stator, and a side wall portion arranged to extend downward from an outer edge of the cover portion; a rotor magnet positioned radially outward of the stator, and fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the side wall portion of the rotor hub; and a bearing mechanism arranged to support the rotor hub and the rotor magnet such that the rotor hub and the rotor magnet are rotatable with respect to the base portion and the stator. A height of the rotor magnet as measured in an axial direction is preferably in a range of about 2 mm to about 3 mm (both inclusive), and a height of a stator core of the stator as measured in the axial direction is preferably in a range of about 50% to about 75% (both inclusive) of the height of the rotor magnet. A torque constant of a torque produced between the stator and the rotor magnet is in a range of about 3 mNm/A to about 5 mNm/A (both inclusive).
摘要:
Using a simple and inexpensive method, a reliable spindle motor having a simple and inexpensive structure is afforded, in which contact failure of the FPC does not occur even when the motor undergoes external impact. An extending portion is provided radially outer side of an annular recess of a base. The extending portion has a step whose radially outer side is higher, and a through hole formed such as to pass through the base from its inside to outside. A FPC is disposed on an upper surface of a stator. The FPC is fixed to a lower surface of the base through the through hole. The bending height and the bending angle of the FPC are minimized by providing the step having appropriate height so that the FPC is not easily peeled off even when subject to external impact.
摘要:
A spindle motor in one inventive implementation includes a rotor hub (10) for retaining a rotor magnet (70) and a stator (80) which is faced to the radial inner side of the rotor magnet (70) with a gap interposed therebetween. A shield sheet (90) is placed between the upper side of the winding (82) of the stator (80) and the disk mounting portion (13) of the rotor hub (10) and the outer peripheral edge of the shield sheet (90) is placed radially inside of the outer peripheral edge of the core back (83) of the stator (80).
摘要:
A base plate is provided with plural through holes extending vertically through the base plate, at the portions aligned with plural teeth. In the respective through holes of the base plate, the lower portions of wire-wound portions of the corresponding teeth and the lower portions of the coils formed around the wire-wound portions are inserted. The lower surfaces of the wire-wound portions are positioned between the upper main surface and the lower main surface of the base plate in the axial direction.
摘要:
A rotor hub for use in a motor installed into a recording disk driving device to spin a recording disk includes a convex portion, a disk placing portion around the convex portion, and the relief portion which is a substantially circular concave portion disposed between the convex portion and the disk placing portion. The recording disk, preferably a 1.8-inch or smaller type disk, having a center circular through-hole, is mounted on the rotor hub. When the recording disk is mounted on the rotor hub, with the bottom surface thereof abutting against a portion of the disk placing portion and an inner side surface of the center circular through-hole of the recording disk, an upper edge of the relief portion is arranged axially lower than an upper edge of the inner side surface of the center circular through-hole, and a bottom edge of the relief portion is arranged inward from an inner edge of the bottom surface of the recording disk.
摘要:
Motor having a rotor magnet, a stator and a bearing mechanism with vibrations and noises suppressed. The greatest common divisor of the number of the magnetic poles of the rotor magnet and the number of the teeth of the stator is larger than the number of drive phases for the stator. Further, the number of the radial dynamic pressure generation grooves or the thrust dynamic pressure generation grooves coincides with none of the divisors and multiples of the number of the magnetic poles of the rotor magnet and the number of the teeth of the stator.
摘要:
A spindle motor includes an electroconductive sheet member. The electroconductive sheet member is attached so as to be abutted against a sleeve housing and a metal exposed portion of a base plate. With the configuration, the conductivity between the base plate and the sleeve housing is preferably achieved.