Abstract:
A thin spindle motor having a stator core with sufficient swaging strength even using thin magnetic steel sheets is provided, whereby the magnetic loss and the power consumption of the spindle motor are reduced. The stator core is formed by laminating plural stator laminations with a thickness of 0.1 to 0.2 mm and joined by a swaging portion. The swaging portion has an approximately rectangular shape having long sides extending along a radial direction when viewed from an axial direction. The swaging portion has a cross section with a middle portion parallel to the radial direction and a slope portion at the both sides when viewed from a circumferential direction, thereby forming a recess. The recess has a depth that is less than the thickness of the stator lamination whereby the swaging portion does not cut the stator lamination.
Abstract:
A motor includes: a base including a holder portion; a shaft supporting member fitted inside the holder portion and fixed onto an inner circumferential surface of the holder portion; a shaft supported by the shaft supporting member; a rotor assembly rotatably supported with respect to the shaft supporting member via the shaft; and a stator assembly arranged on an outer circumferential portion of the holder portion. An adhesive groove on the base side and an adhesive groove on the shaft supporting member side, to which an adhesive is applied, are formed respectively on the inner circumferential surface of the holder portion and on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft supporting member facing the inner circumferential surface of the holder portion, and the adhesive grooves on the base side and on the shaft supporting member side are disposed to face each other at least in part.