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Albert Dierkes

Otto Olbrich

Johann Biermeier

Wilhelm Brand

Ernst Grecksch

Joachim Gilly

Friedrich Schellenberger

A low-cost, compact disk pack drive with an external rotor motor permanent magnet-excited by sintered ferrite magnets in the form of partial shells is to be provided. The external rotor motor is arranged inside the pack space of the disk pack and sintered ferrite excitation magnets are used, having a surface metallization which have been sealed.

Disk pack drive with electric motor having sintered permanent magnets

A magnetic disk memory has a disk pack with a revolving spindle, the disk pack being seated at both sides in a housing and being driven by a drive motor within the hub. The spindle is seated at mutually opposite walls of a supporting shell of the housing with a pair of ball bearings which are tensioned in the axial direction. To this end, each ball bearing is fixed with an interference fit on a respective axial peg of the spindle and is likewise disposed with interference fit in a respective bearing bushing. One of the bearing bushings is inserted into and fixed in a slot let into one wall of a supporting shell of the housing. Assigned to the other bearing bushing is a resilient wall section in the other wall of the supporting shell at which the second bearing bushing is fixed pressing inwardly against the spring power of this wall region.

Hermetically sealed, two-sided bearing structure for a magnetic disk

A magnetic disk memory comprises a hub rotatably seated at both ends in a one-piece supporting shell of a housing and carrying at least one storage disk and driven by an internal drive motor. The hub is fixed on a rotating spindle, whereby a pair of ball bearings is provided for seating the spindle at mutually opposite walls of the supporting shell. The ball bearings are embraced in the axial direction in order to achieve a play-free spindle guidance. Each ball bearing has an inner ring fixed with an interference fit onto a respective end of the spindle and a respective bearing bushing likewise seated with an interference fit on its outer ring. One of the two bearing bushings is rigidly disposed in the allocated wall of the supporting shell and, in the incorporated condition of the hub, the other bearing bushing is fixed at the opposite wall of the supporting shell and is prestressed in the axial direction.

Magnetic disk memory comprising a membrane spring-braced bearing of a

A magnetic disk memory has a disk pack with a revolving spindle, the disk pack being seated at both sides in a housing and being driven by a drive motor arranged within the hub. The spindle is seated at mutually opposite walls of a supporting shell of the housing with a pair of ball bearings which are tensioned in the axial direction. To this end, each ball bearing is fixed with an interference fit on a respective axial peg of the spindle and is likewise disposed with interference fit in a respective bearing bushing. One of the bearing bushings is inserted into and fixed in a slot let into one wall of a supporting shell of the housing. Assigned to the other bearing bushing is a resilient wall section in the other wall of the supporting shell at which section the second bearing bushing is fixed pressing inwardly against the spring power of this wall region.

Magnetic disk memory having a disk pack seated at both sides in

In a magnetic disk memory comprising a disk pack hub seated at both sides in ball bearings in a housing, the ball bearings are tensed in the actual direction relative to one another in order to achieve a play-free hub guidance. To this end, at least one housing wall is resiliently designed in the direction of the hub axis and flexes upon the application of a restraining force. Before integration into a completed memory unit, the spacings of the inner rings of the ball bearings, tightly seated on the hub shaft, and of the bearing locations in the housing which accept the outer rings with an interference fit, deviate slightly from one another.

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Planegg, Germany

Albert Dierkes