Nidec Corporation

Junzo Fujinawa

Tomohiro Yoneda

Tadahiro Kuramoto

Yuki Masumi

Hirokazu Watanabe

Masakazu Matsuyama

Koji Baba

Masayuki Murakami

Tomonori Terasaki

Takaharu Funatsu

Akitsugu Miwa

A base unit includes a support to support a motor, a bottom plate, and a wall. The bottom plate extends radially outward from the support. The wall extends upward from an outer periphery of the bottom plate, and includes a rectangular opening in planar view. Surfaces of the bottom plate and the wall include a cover surface covered with an electrodeposition coating film and an exposed surface in which a material of the base unit is exposed from the electrodeposition coating film. At least an upper end surface of the wall and a partial region of an inside wall surface of the wall continuous with the upper end surface are each the exposed surface.

Disk drive base unit with electrodeposition coating film covering wall except upper wall surface and adjacent inner side surface

A base member is structured to define a portion of a casing in which a gas with a density lower than that of air is to be sealed and to support a motor to be housed in the casing. The base member includes a base body made of a cast material, an information mark, and an insulating coating layer. The information mark includes casting information and is located on a portion of a surface of the base body. The insulating coating layer is defined on the surface of the base body and covers the information mark.

Base member including information mark and insulating coating layer, and disk drive apparatus including the same

A centrifugal fan according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes an impeller, a motor portion, and a housing. The housing includes an upper plate portion, a lower plate portion, and a side wall portion. The upper plate portion or the lower plate portion includes an air inlet. One of the upper and lower plate portions and the side wall portion together define a single housing component molded by casting. A portion of the one of the upper and lower plate portions which is along a boundary between the side wall portion and the one of the upper and lower plate portions defines an increased thickness portion arranged to have an axial thickness greater than that of a remaining portion of the one of the upper and lower plate portions.

Centrifugal fan, housing component cast, and method of manufacturing housing component

A thin base member for use in a disk drive apparatus in which a bearing mechanism and an actuator are arranged includes a plurality of lower recess portions, a C-shaped smooth surface, and a fan-shaped recess portion. The C-shaped smooth surface is arranged in a region of an upper surface of the base member to at least partially encircle the region where the bearing mechanism is arranged and the C-shaped smooth surface has a height constant or substantially constant in a circumferential direction. At least a portion of each of the lower recess portions is provided below the C-shaped smooth surface, in which the C-shaped smooth surface has a cross section positioned at the lower recess portions to protrude in a direction toward which the upper surface of the base member faces or in a direction toward which the lower surface of the base member faces.

Base member of a motor which includes specific surface structure

A base plate of a disk drive apparatus includes a motor base disposed around a central axis and a base body portion extending radially outward of the motor base. The motor base is made of a metallic material of a first type. The base body portion is made of a metallic material of a second type. The base body portion is a casting product in which the motor base is an insert component. An upper protruding portion and a lower protruding portion are defined in one of an outer end portion of a bottom plate portion of the motor base and an inner end portion of the base body portion.

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Kyoto, Japan

Junzo Fujinawa