Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kaoru Konishikawa

Fuminori Hirose

Hitoshi Sawairi

Kouichi Higuchi

Shunsuke Sasaki

A disk drive apparatus having a thick and simple structure with manufactured at low cost, and a bearing device having a thick structure, whose shaft deflection is small, and which is high in vibration and impact strength, and manufactured at low cost. The disk drive apparatus comprises a stator provided on a metal based printed circuit board, a shaft supported by a bearing device which is securely fixed by an attaching means of the stator, with the shaft being assembled with a magnet, a rotor yoke and the like. With this structure, the number of component parts can be decreased, and since a die therefor is not necessary, the cost for manufacturing it can be eliminated. Therefore, the disk drive apparatus is advantageous in manufacture. The bearing device for supporting a shaft through lubricating oil comprises a bearing body having at least one groove on an inner peripheral surface and grooves formed on both sides thereof with a smaller depth than the groove a thrust receiving portion provided at the bottom of the bearing body, and at least one vent hole. With this structure, the bearing device can be reduced in thickness without a metal bush and a ball bearing. Also, owing to the pumping effect of the shaft, the grooves and the lubricating oil, a film of the lubricating oil is formed around the shaft so that the shaft deflection can be suppressed.

Disk drive apparatus

An improved printed circuit board for use in electrical and electronic appliances includes an electronic part for a jumper having crossover wiring and disposed on an electrically insulative substrate or base plate for the printed circuit board provided with a cross pattern of conductors in which sets of separated or cut-off conductive layers are arranged to confront each other on X-Y cross coordinates for connecting the cross pattern portions on the substrate to each other by the jumper electronic part.

Printed circuit board

A printed circuit board which is an electrically insulative substrate of synthetic resin having at least one pair of spaced electroconductive layers. An electric and/or electronic component, such as resistor or capacitor, of a type which has no lead wires extending outwardly therefrom for external electric connection, but which is constituted by a substantially cubic body having its opposed area applied with respective films or foils of electroconductive material which serve as terminal electrodes, is mounted on the substrate with the terminal electrodes soldered to the respective electroconductive layers. To this end, each of the electroconductive layers has a round portion for connection with the associated terminal electrode of the component. Each round portion has an effective surface area equal to or smaller than any of the terminal electrodes.

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Hirakata, Japan

Kaoru Konishikawa